Chinasa: After half a year of negotiations, debate and drafting, the new de-ethnicized constitution has been adopted by voters subsequently followed by the first elections under its new wing. This first election has seen the newly formed People's Democratic Congress or PDC win a majority, winning 227 seats of the 450 in the new Chamber of Deputies and thus winning a small 2 seat majority to govern alone. This also ensures that its leader, Chi Nweke, will be elected President of the Republic as the president will under this new constitution be elected by the lower house. This new constitution reformed North Dovani into a decentralized unitary state, with the federal regions abolished and the provinces reestablished. All provinces will receive some designated tasks, these being sustainable spatial development, including water management, environment, energy and climate, regional accessibility and regional public transport, regional economy, Cultural infrastructure and preservation and they also oversee district governments. The provinces also have a set government under the new constitution, gaining a directly elected Provincial Governor, Provincial Council with either 24, 58 or 116 seats depending on population and their own provincial government headed by the governor. Below the provinces will be the districts, subdivided under urban and rural districts. Urban districts can be further subdivided in city regions while rural districts cannot. With this new unitary structure and the country not divided by ethnicity but geography the writers of the constitution hope that ethnicity will play little role in government and allow the national government to take a more active role in ensuring that it stays out of politics. The country will also be renamed to the North Dovanian Republic.
On the new national level the parliament is to be reformed into a bicameral system, with a lower house "Chamber of Deputies" and a upper house "Council of Provinces". The Chamber of Deputies will be reduced in size from the previous lower house, having 450 seats instead of 620. Furthermore the share of proportional seats has increased, in the hopes of encouraging better representation in parliament. The Council of Provinces is appointed every 5 years by the provinces, with each province allowed 5 seats amounting to a total of 110 seats. It will only be able to pass or reject chamber legislation, thus only having limited influence. The Presidency is to be combined with the head of government position, making the new President of the Republic both HOS and HOG. Instead of popular vote however the new president is elected by a majority in the Chamber of Deputies for a set 5 year term, renewable indefinitely. This makes the North Dovanian system unique but does still classify it as a parliamentary system, in theory giving parliament more power then before. The president will inherit all powers from both the former presidency and prime ministerial positions.
The People's Democratic Congres, now the ruling party of North Dovani, is a merger between the Democratic North Dovani party and several regional parties with different ideologies. It still classifies itself as Big-tent and has thus inherited a big voter base, securing a parliamentary majority in at least one chamber. Soon to be President Chi Nweke has stated that he seeks to govern as a centrist, "laying the groundwork for future governments to work on and continuing our economic and diplomatic successes."
The results for the Chamber of Deputies, with the PDC securing a narrow 2 seat absolute majorityThe new State Emblem of the North Dovanian Republic