Kalistani Major History

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Murro Elected President
November 4179

Deborah Murro a founding mother of the Free Will Party has been elected President of Kalistan. Murro, a 51 year old business executive ran unopposed for both her party's presidential primaries and the presidency itself. Her campaign proposed extensive economic and social reform with a view to restore Kalistan's reputation as a libertarian haven in Terra. In an interesting change though, she hopes to extend this libertarian atmosphere to the field of economics. Plans include budget cuts, tax reductions and privatisation of as many state owned enterprises as possible


President Murro's swearing-in ceremony

The new President, already nicknamed "Demolition Debby", has already begun employing her executive powers to effect change within the administration, several days before her Cabinet is voted on by the National Assembly. Many of those reforms are symbolic such as auctioning several cars from the presidential motorcade and reducing her official entertainment budget. Murro has said that she intends to execute her role in an unpretentious and details-oriented fashion.

So far, her office has been quite mum on what direction her administration will take in foreign policy. In his confirmation testimony to the National Assembly, incoming Foreign Minister Federico Llosa said that Kalistan would continue to engage with the world, uphold all her obligations and remain committed to free trade, globalisation and human rights . The President herself has only stated that she intended to execute a "humble but effective foreign policy" and decried both excessive interventionism and isolationism. No specifics have been given so far.