Vanuku

[Kubrick]

LOFRKAD, TÁMNR, NRZILYK

Liberals and traditionalists form hawkish coalition

Duchess Jarga Anzlék-Zahr arriving at the Grand Council to formally accept her new position as Prefect.

5 May 5678 (backdated)

After the election results it quickly became apparent that the 'half-a-seat majority' was not enough of a majority for the liberal bloc to be comfortable with. Duchess Anzlék-Zahr and Dwít Z'nstro were quick to find mutual grounds for cooperation and announced in March that their respective parties would be cooperating extensively to try and find a "third partner" for their idea of a Jez Shrmoishto (Grand Coalition). At first the centre-left Ám'ádsrlji Krsyjogad (Ahmadi Union) was approached, a predominantly Ahmadist party with centre-left views. These talks ended on April 10 after it was clear the three parties could not find a solution to their differing views on foreign affairs, as the Ahmadists under Mhmet Kamék advocate for an isolationist course and cooperation with Majatran Ahmadi nations. The liberal bloc however wishes to aim globally and return to the past with projecting Jelbic soft power across the globe. Brief talks were held with the Worldburnerist Aked Prta (Red Party), although it quickly became apparent that would not be a match. Eventually, it was the Tanhriék Prostrnatnyrmojad (Tanhri's Will) that became the glue for the Jez Shrmoishto.

Intrsmor Shlajkaisrmko Trmékez is a successful businessman and the son of a Tanhrist and Zollist shaman. A man from humble beginnings that grew up in one of the last remaining traditional Jelbic communities. He passed his traditional Jelbic rite of passage during the Worldburnerist dictatorship when these trials were technically outlawed. Even with his traditional upbringing he also went to school, as his father favoured both forms of Jelbic education, and even studied at the University of Wiel after his tribe gathered enough money to help him move to the big city. After gaining his economics degree he briefly worked for the Worldburnerist regime, but returned to his hometown of Aldr-Abdr near the city of Krlmek after being written up for two 'anti-state opinions'. Here a small company was built, money was saved, and when the Worldburnerist regime collapsed Trmékez bought several former state companies. In the last decade he has turned them into profitable businesses, occasionally being in the news for his traditional Jelbic views combined with his modern business acumen. His party is big tent in policy, and primarily fights for the rights of the few traditionalist Jelbics still living in Wrnuke. The policies the party advocates are as flexible as the business strategies of its founder, though it is a militarist movement calling for the restoration of the Jelbosphere as a world power. The flexibility and hawkish views made Trmékez and his TP party the ideal partner in the end. With 14 seats it brings the coalition to a total of 127 out of 225, a comfortable majority in the Grand Council. Z'nstro's Lofrkade Péashro (Liberal Vanguard) was always going to be in favour of traditionalist conservation measures and with some economical centrist concessions the Duchess was also convinced.

It is expected that the coalition proposal of Duchess Anzlék-Zahr will soon pass the Grand Council, after which she will become the first elected Prefect of Wrnuke in almost a century. Dwít Z'nstro has been put forward as the new Minister of Foreign Affairs and the seasoned businessman Trmékez will fill the position of Minister of Finance.

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