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Kooi-Oppensteiner forms „Constitutional Reform“ government with all parties except Thallerists
October 5673


Kooi-Oppensteiner reporting on his initial political successes

After barely winning the presidency and maintaining a small relative majority in the Senate, the leader of the VVP Robert Kooi-Oppensteiner has fulfilled his announcement of forming a government with the centrist factions DRP and YBP. What was surprising to some was the inclusion of the second largest party, the left-wing GRP. According to the president it was easier to fully include the party in the cabinet and form a working agreement with them in the Senate to gather the necessary votes in the legislative body. From an outsider’s POV the mood in the administration seems dry but attentive to process. In a rare instance of transparency, the coalition contract has been published by all the parties, it includes smaller concessions for each faction such as measures to control labour flows in various industries for the centrist parties and a relatively minor tax for multi-layered corporate structures to be paid by the mother-holding company. A boon for the VVP was that Kooi-Oppensteiner managed to preserve the conservative hold on the foreign ministry and foreign policy as a whole. All parties agree on the federalization reform and have already agreed on the plans to introduce, the office of the governing coalition, a body in the Senate, upon inquiry responded that the legal experts from all over the Three Republics are at work in the Senate-adjacent buildings in Bannerhafen to draft the actual text of the now dubbed “Federal Amendment.”

Opposition to the recent developments and proposals came from the Thallerist side, which now has embraced hyper-populist rhetorics and fundamental contrarianism against the planned reforms. Pundits explain that after years of governing together both personal and ideological problems between the VVP and the TKP have hindered a continued cooperation between the past-partners. Some also see a shift in the VVP after having to reorient the party after the unexpected resignation of Siske Ossel. On another note, the now DRP controlled ministry of Defence recently reported that according to the numbers delivered by the last government, now 33% of the naval fleet has received its planned midline upgrades and finished its modernization.

One larger issue remains largely uncommented by Kooi-Oppensteiner himself, which is the Clenonberg file issue. According to the DRP which controls the ministries of Justice and Defence, two of the relevant departments for the opening of these documents, there is an agreement within the coalition to deal with the issue after preparing accordingly.