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Re: Ephemeris Seluciana (Selucian Daily)

Postby Aethan » Mon Dec 31, 2018 4:06 pm

Selucia considers greater controls in vaccination
After declarations from the Aldurian government, the Minister of Health, Romina Caspia, has hinted that Selucia could also implement controls on visitors

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In red, nations whose citizens could suffer the new vaccination measures. In black, nations whose citizens won't be able to enter

Citizens of a score of nations may need to be vaccinated in order to visit Selucia in the near future, according to the Minister of Health, Romina Caspia, in a television interview.

Asked about her position on vaccines, the minister has declared that she has no intention of changing the legislation in force for centuries by which all citizens of Selucia must be vaccinated against certain diseases and microorganisms.

"What seems to be incredible is that even in the 46th century, there are still people who really think that vaccines are going to have really harmful effects on our body, beyond those that occur in response to our own body against the invading agent. Anti-vaccination studies have been dismantled, one after the other, as farces that all they want is to feed the population's fear and hinder progress. This government will not enter into that game, and therefore we support the actions of the government of Alduria , although it is true that the words and qualifications used to refer, not as a citizen but as a member of a government, by the Minister of Tourism of Alduria are, at least, unfortunate. "


The minister said that although she respects the legislative decisions of each country, she believes that the citizens of Selucia do not have to suffer the consequences.

"It is important to understand that, for our part, there is no problem in which each government decides what it deems appropriate to legislate on the medical system, but we believe that health is not something to play with and therefore, although we can not change other country's legislation to protect the health of their citizens, we will act to protect the health of our own citizens, so it is important to announce that, in a short time, this government intends to impose measures to restrict or control the entry of tourists or citizens from nations that do not have adequate legislation on the subject of vaccines, and if they want to access our territory, they must accept vaccination of what this government deems necessary to not put our citizens' health at risk. "


For the minister, an "adequate vaccination" refers to the governments of each country making it mandatory to vaccinate their citizens, while any other legislation is "inefficient". According to these standards, a total of up to 20 nations could be affected by the new measures.

Although citizens of those nations that are vaccinated will not notice any significant change, those who are not vaccinated should choose between getting vaccinated against certain diseases or not being able to enter the country.

"We understand that some people may find these measures extreme, and that this may affect tourism in our nation, one of the great pillars of the national economy,"
the minister said,
"but health comes first."


But what nations could be affected? According to the legislation of the nations in Terra, the citizens of Endralon would not be able to enter the country, because their government has prohibited by law the use of vaccines. The other 19 nations depend on whether their citizens are vaccinated or will not be able to access Selucia easier or harder. They are the following: Barmenia, Canrille, Dankuk, Deltaria, Dundorf, Egelion, Hobrazia, Kalistan, Kalopia, Keymon, Kirlawa, Malivia, Narikaton, Rildanor, Saridan, Solentia, Talmoria, Trigunia and Tukarali.
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Re: Ephemeris Seluciana (Selucian Daily)

Postby Aethan » Tue Jan 01, 2019 7:41 pm

Trial about Hillesko Dorfluzke begins
After the Minister of Justice of Selucia received the formal request for extradition, the Supreme Court will proceed to meet and decide

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Benedicta Aegea, Chief Judge of the Selucian Supreme Court for the period 4494-4514

The government of Vanuku has taken the first step towards the possibility of extraditing Hillesko Dorfluzke, leader of the Socialist Organization of Vanuku, back to the country. The Minister of Justice of Selucia, Rubeus Indra, confirmed the news this morning, at the same time that he has informed that all the documentation and details have already been sent to the Chief of the Supreme Court of Selucia, Benedicta Aegea, who will proceed to request the meeting of all the members of the court in brief to make a decision.

Mr. Dorfluzke, if extradited, would face accusations of sedition with the intention of inciting violence against the government and its organizations, in addition to an attempt to cause bombs to explode in several royal palaces of Vanuku. These charges are the same as those of the other eight arrested for these charges, who have been sentenced to life imprisonment.

Although nor the government or the high court has yet wanted to pronounce themselves on this matter, various associations of judges and social activism of Selucia have wanted to emphasize that justice in Vanuku is clearly politicized, because their judges are all elected by politicians, and that this could lead to Mr. Dorfluzke not having a fair trial.

This new case has once again attracted the attention of the citizens of Selucia, who live with expectation all the deliberations of the Supreme Court.

The Court, which currently has a majority of judges considered progressive, is generally opposed to the extradition of citizens to countries whose democratic guarantees have been questioned on several occasions, and therefore the outcome of these deliberations is uncertain. While it is assumed that both Beatrix Aufidia Savia (Insularian Iudex) and Mercurius Sapientia (Oriensian Iudex) will be strongly opposed to accepting extradition given their judicial record, the decision of the others remains an unknown one, and it is not known how long it will take before being solved.
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Re: Ephemeris Seluciana (Selucian Daily)

Postby Aethan » Wed Jan 02, 2019 6:30 pm

BREAKING The Supreme Court denies the extradition of Hillesko Dorfluzke
The verdict, made public this afternoon, expresses the reservations of the high court of Selucia about Mr. Dorfluzke not having a fair trial in his country of origin
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Rubeus Indra announcing that the government will not challenge the decision of the Supreme Court

There has been no surprise over the rejection of the extradition request made by the Vanukean government towards Hellisko Dorfluzke. The Supreme Court of Selucia, little inclined to accept extradition requests to dubious democracies, has decided to dismiss the petition in a vote in which there has been no dissident opinion, and that has resulted in a result of 7-0 against the extradition. All members of the high court, both those considered progressive and conservative, have adduced reasons for "circumstantial accusations" and "reservations about the holding of a fair trial" to dismiss the request made by the Foreign Minister of Vanuku, in which he requested the extradition of Hillesko Dorfluzke under accusations of attempted terrorism.

The judicial ruling (OOC: http://classic.particracy.net/viewbill. ... 8#messages), which can be read below, has dismissed the political motives, which it said must be the decision of the governments, to focus on the causes and judicial consequences of extradition.

Iohannes Ianuarius Caligula (Marestellan Iudex), Lucretia Cassia (Occidentrian Iudex) and Iuppiter Pomponius (Opposition Iudex)

The defendant, Mr. Hillesko Dorfluzke, is a citizen of the Kingdom of Vanuku and currently resides in Selucia, where he arrived legally with no impediment, given that no arrest warrant had been issued against the defendant at the time. The defendant stands accused of sedition and attempted terrorist attacks under Vanukean law, and as such the Kingdom of Vanuku has issued an extradition request. The decision regarding his extradition now rests on whether the Supreme Court finds the defendant guilty.

Several facts need to be ascertained before the Supreme Court can formally issue its ruling. Firstly, as a sovereign state, the Republic has absolute authority over all residents in its territory, limited only by obligations voluntarily undertaken by treaty, internal legislation of the Republic, and international jus cogens. As such, the Republic is under no obligation to extradite the defendant, given the lack of an explicit extradition arrangement between the Republic and the Kingdom of Vanuku, irrespective of the defendant's guilt. However, under the principle of aut dedere aut judicare, states are under the obligation to either prosecute or extradite individuals accused of international crimes, so that crimes against humanity do not remain unpunished. Whether or not the principle of aut dedere aut judicare is a part of jus cogens or is merely a specific conventional clause is however not clear. Secondly, the likelihood of the defendant receiving a free and fair trial in his country of origin has been questioned. The Kingdom of Vanuku is formally an oligarchy, with the right to vote heavily restricted and political dissent legally suppressed, while the judiciary's independence is virtually non-existent. Under these circumstances, refusing the request for extradition would be the only guarantee that the defendant would receive a free and fair trial. Ultimately, the decision to extradite is not a judicial question, but rather a political decision. Having established the lack of an obligation that the Republic extradite the defendant, it is the responsibility of the executive to weigh the political, diplomatic, and moral arguments in favor or against extradition.

With the legal background of this case firmly established, the Supreme Court can rule on the defendant's guilt in this case. The Marestallan Iudex, having reviewed all relevant information obtained from the Kingdom of Vanuku, finds the defendant NOT GUILTY. All evidence brought by the Kingdom is circumstantial, failing to prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the defendant had any involvement in the crimes of which he is accused. The Occidentrian and Opposition Iudices concur with this decision.


Benedicta Aegea (Iudex Maxima) and Mercurius Sapientia (Oriensian Iudex)

I think it is important to note that the charges for which the extradition of citizen Vanukense Hillesko Dorfluzke is requested are based only on speculation and, above all, on "intent to", which although it may be morally reprehensible, does not in itself constitute a crime against humanity.
With this in mind, I support what my colleagues have subscribed to regarding the policies of Vanuku, a nation whose democratic guarantees have been put in between on several occasions and from which it is known that both the security forces of the State and the judicial branch depends entirely on the government, a government that has been in charge of restricting the freedom to vote and trying to reduce to the maximum the opposition of political ideologies.
With all this, the evidence presented can only be interpreted as circumstantial, carried out by a political police who, under their own investigation, intends to put Mr. Dorfluzke on the stand, where he will be tried by a court that, under my judicial hearing, does not have the democratic guarantees to carry out the trial.
Under these precepts, this Court only has to decide if it considers that Mr. Hillesko Dorfluzke is considered guilty or not of the charges against him, for which the government must subsequently carry out the actions it deems appropriate.

In view of the evidence provided up to now, and considering the judicial consequences of this case, the Iudex Maxima finds the accused NOT GUILTY, and recommends his non-extradition.


Beatrix Aufidia Savia (Insularian Iudex) and Arcadia Sessius (Cor Patrian Iudex)

What this court has to assess is not only whether the defendant Hillesko Dorfluzke is guilty or not, but whether, if the request for extradition is accepted, he will receive a fair trial in his country of origin. Before this court, evidence has been presented that, far from being totally and irrefutably incriminating, becomes merely circumstantial, since no forensic evidence has been found in the devices that were supposedly found in the headquarters of the political party to which Mr. Dorfluzke belongs.

In the absence of a previous commitment of extradition between the governments of the Res Publica Seluciae and the Kingdom of Vanuku, the decision remains purely judicial and not political, so that the ideologies corresponding to the government of any of the nations can not come into play. .

For this reason, it will be necessary to analyze when to proceed to accept, on the part of this Court, a request for extradition. All crimes must be tried and receive their corresponding sentence, but in the case at hand there is no empirical evidence and feaciente implication of the accused in the charges against him and therefore, to accept the request for extradition this Court would be validating some evidence in which there is no possibility of linking with Mr. Dorfluzke beyond his membership of the corresponding political party and his relationship with the rest of the accused with these same charges.

In addition, if the request for extradition is accepted, this Court would be committing a crime of denial of a fair trial, since at the time of delivering the accused, it would be the Vanukean judges who would go on to deal with the case. Some judges who belong to a system questioned internationally by the great political implication in their decisions, which puts in doubt that there will be no bias against the accused and that would annul our own capacity as judges. When there are previous complaints against that court, filed by members of the party to which the accused belongs, this request for extradition could also be interpreted as an act of revenge, not justice, with the intention of suppressing all political opposition.

Having said that, the Insularian Iudex finds the accused NOT GUILTY.


After the announcement of this decision, the Minister of Justice of Selucia, Rubeus Indra, has appeared at a press conference to explain the next steps of the government, which is where the subsequent political responsibilities of accepting or not accepting the extradition request fall.

The Minister explained that the government will not appeal the sentence for "respect for judicial independence."

"As a former judge, I think it is important to respect the separation of powers, which in this case can also be seen. The Supreme Court of Selucia, the country's highest judicial body, has positioned itself against extradition, and therefore the government will respect that decision. However, this does not imply a carte blanche for Mr. Dorfluzke. As the sentence says, the evidence provided so far is inconclusive and circumstantial, but, if more evidence to prove definitively his link to terrorist acts is provided, the government's decision can change. "
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Re: Ephemeris Seluciana (Selucian Daily)

Postby Aethan » Mon Jan 07, 2019 2:39 pm

Priscian resigns; Cinna to lead the party
The new General Secretary declines to approach the political center

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Axia Cinna, after her election as General Secretary of In Marea-Civis Sinistram

The fall has been a resounding blow. In Marea has passed, after the elections of 4511, from being the majority partner of government and second power in the Senate to be the last force and become the minority partner, in addition to losing its three Praetorships including Oriensos, which had dominated for two decades, and Insularia, its traditional stronghold.

With these results, Panegyris Priscian, who this time has not even managed to pass to the second round in the presidential elections and has been overtaken by Helena Romilia Nennia and Agrippina Leponta, has announced his resignation to continue leading the party.

"Citizens have spoken: In Marea-Civis Sinistram has been leading the government since February of 4491, when I was elected for the first time Rector of Selucia. Since then, election after election they have kept supporting me to continue as Rector of our nation, but in these elections they have been clear: the citizens wanted a change, and that change did not go through In Marea-Civis Sinistram. For this reason, I assume as my own the failures that have led my party to fall to the last position and lose all regions that we led so far, and I think it's time to step aside and let others take charge of taking the party back to victory. "


The charismatic Rector, who came to lead In Marea-Civis Sinistram after the resignation of Adia Pastora for the poor electoral results, was hardly unknown when he came to power. Coming from the government team of the last legislature of Albus Rubio in Oriensos, he arrived at the general secretariat after a campaign in which he was involved with social rights and connected with the left wing of the party. However, with the passage of the legislatures and due to the need of his government coalition, he gradually approached the center, a land in which Factio Liberalis already had an advantage, and which he now believes is what has past invoice. In this way, Panegyris Priscian, Rector of Selucia for two full decades and who has already left his mark on the history of Selucia, takes a step aside and has announced that he will retire from politics until further notice. His last legacy has been the election of Selucia as a member of the Security Council and the government agreement between Factio Liberalis, chaired by Agrippina Leponta, and his party, in which he will not occupy any ministry.

After the resignation of Priscian, the party immediately mobilized to organize internal elections in which the militants could choose the new person who would lead the party. Although at the beginning many voices were raised for it, after being examined, the number of candidates who fulfilled all the requirements was reduced to six:

-Rubeus Indra: former Minister of Justice and current Minister of Environment and Tourism
-Minerva Faustina: spokesperson for the party in the Senate
-Teticles Agrimin: former Secretary of Education and Culture of Insularia
-Protus Caiedo Adjutor: former Secretary of Defense of Oriensos
-Axia Cinna: former Secretary of Equality and Immigration of Insularia
-Pandora Caelestis: Secretary of Organization of In Marea-Civis Sinistram.

While party members were expected to choose a candidate who would veer the party's ideology towards the center to try to win back votes, the surprise came this morning when it was announced that Axia Cinna, former leader of the IUVIM in Insularia and former Secretary of Equality and Immigration of the same region, has been elected by 86% of the votes, winning in the second round to the a priori favorite, Minister Rubeus Indra, right hand of Priscian for several terms.

The one that has already been elected as the new secretary general of the party thus becomes a new victory for the IUVIM, which has not stopped losing influence in the party as the government moved away from the political left.

Axia Cinna al-Bashar, 41, a onvinced socialist with some sparks of communism, is a woman who made herself after losing her parents to cancer. From a Selucian father and a Kafuristani mother, she has promised that, if she comes to the government, she will promote social measures of integration and protection, as well as structural changes in the economic system of the island nation.

"What they want to sell us as a political center does not exist: either you are conservative or you are progressive, then within each of those terms the ideologies already vary, but to demand that there be a" center" position is something impossible. It's not having an opinion about anything, and I'm not going to be the one to make my party want that. I'm proud of my ideas, of knowing that I fight for equality of classes and gender, for the non-discrimination of minorities ... These are the kind of things that would make me proud to say that I am from Selucia. No one can deny that in recent decades we have made great advances, but to see how the opposition party proposes to eliminate already achieved rights such as the laws of abortion. and euthanasia seems horrible to me and we must stop it, showing people the truth. "
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Re: Ephemeris Seluciana (Selucian Daily)

Postby Polites » Wed Jan 09, 2019 8:48 am

Leadership Change in Republican Party
Left-wing shift as Republicans move to center

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The election of Proserpina Dexsia marks the Republican Party's turn to the left

December 4512 - In spite of, or perhaps precisely because of the Republican Party's large electoral victory in the March 4511 elections, the party's Executive Committee removed long-standing Chair Helena Romilia Nennia from the party's leadership and replaced her with a relative newcomer, Senatrix Proserpina Dexsia of Marestella, as the new chair. In last year's elections the Republicans managed to win the Praetorship of four out of five regions, amidst the collapse of left-wing In Marea to the position of smallest party and the Rectoral victory of Liberal candidate Agrippina Leponta. This was perhaps the first election during her long reign when Helena Romilia Nennia was within inches of taking power and ending her party's relegation to permanent opposition. Perhaps for this reason the party's Executive Committee, seeing that executive power is within the party's grasp, saw fit to adopt a more pragmatic stance on its leadership and elect a chair who can capitalize on the Republicans' growing popularity and the dissatisfaction of the electorate with the current left-liberal coalition. As such they settled on Senatrix Proserpina Dexsia, a neophyte in central politics known primarily as a representative of the Republican Party's left wing, in a bid to win over centrist and progressive voters away from In Marea and the Liberal Democratic Party.

The Republican Party's shift towards the center contrasts with In Marea's decision under Axia Cinna al-Bashar to maintain on its left-wing path and reject that party's own attempted push towards the center. In spite of this difference, Republican chair Proserpina Dexsia issued its own condemnation of centrism, announcing that the Republican Party under her leadership will emphasize bread-and-butter economic issues and establish a strong working-class base while rejecting the progressive-conservative dichotomy that plays a greater role for In Marea than Republican voters:

For all our differences, I must agree with Ms. al-Bashar on the poverty and moral imbecility of centrism. Politics is the struggle between irreconcilable differences, to which no rational solution can be found. When one side wins, the other loses. To treat politics in any other way is to move political disagreements into the moral register, so that the battle between left and right is replaced with the conflict between right and wrong. We in the Republican Party celebrate Ms. al-Bashar's election and hope that through political conflict and disagreement between our two parties we will jointly build a more just society. We however reject the false dichotomy between "progressivism" and "conservatism", which is nothing but liberal fantasy designed to divide the lower classes and to allow the professional class to look down on those below them as narrow minded, conservative, vulgar, and racist. Instead, if elected, the Republican Party will revitalize liberty, enforce equality, and cultivate solidarity through uncompromising and permanent class struggle between the few and the many. Through violent hatred and contempt for the capitalist class the majority of Selucians will learn to overcome petty differences and unite in the name of Republican values, so the Republic will once again become a beacon of democracy and popular sovereignty.
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Re: Ephemeris Seluciana (Selucian Daily)

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Re: Ephemeris Seluciana (Selucian Daily)

Postby Aethan » Mon Jan 14, 2019 12:06 am

The dictatorship of the power, By Helios Sigilis
In current politics, we have been taught that the power to govern can only be carried out by the government itself

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From left to right: Proserpina Dexsia (FR), Agrippina Leponta (FL) and Axia Cinna (IMCS), leaders of the three Selucian political parties

The result of the last elections in Selucia has shown once again the growing support that Factio Republicana experiences among the citizens of Selucia, where its candidate for Rector is only one step away from winning in the first round and only 50 seats to get the absolute majority in the Senate of Selucia, legislative organ of the nation. Given the predictable reaction, on the part of the progressive sectors of politics, to take their hands to the head and ask how that is possible, we can find a simple and obvious answer.

The current government, formed by a coalition between Factio Liberalis and In Marea-Civis Sinistram, is a government that, independently of the correlation of forces, being first led by the aquamarine party and later by the Liberals, has been in power uninterruptedly since Panegyris Priscian acceded to the position of Rector and vetoed any possibility of government with Factio Republicana. After the dissolution of Populares, Factio Liberalis was included in the government in April 4499. In this way, the parties that currently make up the government have been in that position for 16 years without interruption. If we abstract only to In Marea-Civis Sinistram, this number of years increases to the figure of 37 years being one way or another in the government. But what implications does this have?

The model of democracy that is currently followed in Selucia, as in most of Terra's nations, is an imperfect democracy. This does not mean that it is bad. It simply means that it is a model of democracy adapted to the century in which we live, since it would be impossible to adopt the true meaning of "democracy" to the politics that currently govern the world. And what happens with this model?

The current model is one that encourages confrontation, the clash of ideas and opinions. And this, from a rational point of view, is not a bad thing at all. It allows the improvement, through consensus and exchange of arguments and opinions, of society in general. It is the way to build the future. The problem arises when this concept is misused. When it is intended to incite the clash of opinions not from politics, but from the street, and not from concord, but from hatred. When it is done to appeal to the most visceral and vindictive feelings to position a group as the defenders of the "good" in front of another who are the bearers of "chaos". That is the land where no party should enter unless they know very well what is being done, because otherwise, once the masses are mobilized, it is very difficult to regain control.

That is the key point, one of the reasons why Factio Republicana is gaining votes to the detriment of the current coalition. A coalition of government lasting for that long, that has hardly had disagreements, demobilizes to the electoral bases of the parties that conform it, while increases the mobilization of those voters of opposite ideology. The intention of Panegyris Priscian to block any government agreement with Factio Republicana was a good idea at the time, since it allowed to clearly separate the ideologies of the parties. But being extended so much in time such intention has seemed to cause the opposite effect: reached the point of frustrating that much the conservative bases that they have been heavy mobilized and will continue to do so, while the progressive bases are accommodated while the government continues to maintain its majority in the Senate.

With the change of general secretary in In Marea, it is now when Axia Cinna must decide how to recover all those lost votes. If not in these elections, in the following, but it is clear that to maintain a strong party that has practically been governing for four decades something must change.

All this starts from the misconception that if you are not in government, you can not govern. It seems logical, given the semantic relationship of both words. But in today's democracies, there is nothing further from the truth. It is true that the Ministers of a government, and the Head of Government itself, have their own and exclusive powers, but the great power of creating the laws that will govern the lives of the citizens of Selucia resides in the Senate. Therefore, there is where the nation is governed from. Currently, there seems to be fear of being in opposition. It is a fear, based on what I just explained, without foundation, because even from the opposition you can change or create laws. Maybe now, with the change of leadership in Factio Republicana and In Marea, things will change. If it is not after these elections, after the following ones. Maybe it's time to rethink about the alliances in Selucia, and about the position that each party plays in the political game.

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Helios Sigilis is biomedical and writer, former General Secretary of In Marea-Civis Sinistram and Caesar of Selucia from 4461 to 4470
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Re: Ephemeris Seluciana (Selucian Daily)

Postby Polites » Tue Jan 15, 2019 4:18 pm

Is confrontation good for democracy?, By Helena Romilia Nennia
How the instrumentalization of political passions makes Selucian democracy uniquely resilient

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Protesters during the Women's Day strike in 4424

The recent editorial penned by former Caesar Helios Sigilis offers a clear-headed and persuasive account of the gradual rise of the Republican Party over the past few elections and the seeming likelihood that, sooner or later, Selucia will experience a change in government. Caesar Sigilis rests his argument on the inevitable mobilization of the conservative electorate whose preferred representatives have been effectively kept out of power for more than two decades. And the former Caesar sees the roots of this mobilization of the opposition in the confrontational model of democracy currently practiced in Selucia. While he does give due credit to the benefits of this model, I believe that he does not adequately address the distinctive features of Selucian democracy that grant it unprecedented resilience.

To be sure, Selucia is not fully exceptional. The Republic is a liberal democratic regime, and as such it confronts some of the same problems and opportunities faced by any other liberal democracy, including the democratic paradox, that is the profound incompatibility and constant tension between liberalism and democracy. The former refers to a politics addressed to an abstract universal humanity composed of individuals endowed with the right to own property and to look after their own affairs, but this isn't democracy. A democracy requires a specific people under specific circumstances who exist in equality with one another and defined in opposition to some other, equally specific people. Democracy implies a certain closure, necessary for the very process of constituting a "people", and this closure cannot be avoided even in a liberal democracy. As Mr. Sigilis rightfully notes, there is nothing ideal about liberal democracy. However much its supporters may claim it is a rational, consensual, and deliberative political system, it is still a contingent form of political power that closes itself off from what it cannot accept. To deny this closure and to present the boundaries of liberal democracy as rational or moral is to naturalize what is a contingent act of constituting a "people" through a specific regime of exclusion. Consensus can only be established by eliminating pluralism.

Thus the problem of liberal political theories is that they are unable to acknowledge antagonism, based as they are on the false hope of a rational universal consensus. Liberal democracies aim to reach consensus without exclusion, and thus they eliminate passions from the public sphere and condemn any political identity as "tribalism". The standard liberal democracy experiences a type of post-politics, characterized by the absence of the confrontation between different political projects, the alternation in power between the (largely indistinguishable) center-right and center-left, and the reduction of politics to nothing but the technical management of current affairs, a role for which experts and technocrats are better suited. In almost all established liberal democracies the conflict between left and right has been rendered meaningless, with disastrous consequences for democracy.

And this is precisely where Selucia is unique. Politics in Selucia is confrontational, impassioned, angry, and unpredictable. The constant appeal to the most visceral and vindictive sentiments that Mr. Sigilis decries is a feature, not a bug of Selucian democracy, a feature that guarantees a functioning and resilient democratic system. A functioning democracy is not one characterized by rational consensus and the abandonment of political passions, but rather by an intense conflict where people accept the legitimate existence of their adversaries. Such a democracy is hard to establish, and harder still to maintain. The Selucian Senate is not a "marketplace of ideas", it is a political battlefield. When one side loses it is not because they changed their mind, it is because they acknowledge their defeat. It is precisely because confrontation plays such a central role in the Selucian democracy that political battles are waged not with bullets but with ballots. A fake flimsy consensus that is so common in other liberal democracies has the effect of shutting down genuine debate and pushing it out of the political mainstream to the fringes of the system, where it finds expression in various anti-democratic and violent movements that, for all their faults, have the advantage of offering a genuine alternative. Instead of creating confidence in the political system, consensus only reveals that mainstream politicians have more in common with each other than with their voters. What gives Selucian democracy strength is precisely our lack of consensus. Politicians of all stripes see problems all around us, and are as a result forced to offer real solutions that credibly impact the lives of average people.

In any democracy different groups find themselves in competition for economic and cultural resources, and politics as a result becomes a conflict between incompatible choices. No rational solution to these conflicts could possibly exist, only temporary victories that last only as long as the balance of power between the winner and the loser. Because no permanent victory is possible, Selucian politics has a strongly partisan character where opposing sides constantly aim to mobilize passions and arouse the masses, creating uncompromisingly opposing camps with which voters can fully identify. The genius of Selucian politics is precisely that it allows the constant construction and reconstruction of a "we" and a "they". For this I welcome Mr. Sigilis' analysis of the comparative decline of the political passions of the ruling coalition, and his realization that the demonization of Selucian populist movements is counterproductive. I hope that the party of Athena Scudo, Ethan Megalos, and Kyrian Aetius Flavius will rediscover its own populist roots and find the courage to once again mobilize the masses without worrying about "regaining control".

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Re: Ephemeris Seluciana (Selucian Daily)

Postby Aethan » Tue Jan 15, 2019 7:38 pm

An internal document reveals the fracture of In Marea
The document, addressed to the general secretary but leaked by an anonymous source, gathers more than 50 signatures of senior leaders in favor of rethinking the current government coalition
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Insularian Secretary, Umbria Segestes, speaking with the press

Shortly after the publication of the article by the former General Secretary of In Marea, Helios Sigilis, in which a critique is launched on the current demobilization suffered by the left in the political panorama of Selucia, the national leadership of the party has today received a letter signed by numerous figures of weight in the party in which it is requested to tighten more the nuts to the partners of government of In Marea, Factio Liberalis, or to rethink the pact.

The letter, whose signatories include the regional secretaries of Insularia and Oriensos (the two most important federations within the party), Umbria Segestes and Ballio Priscus; former Foreign Minister Canidia Papia Otho, former Defense Minister Mushad al-Saud, former Science Minister Vibenia Fulcius Nerea, or former Secretary General Adia Pastora, asks the current leadership to force the party that holds the leadership of government to become more involved in politics or, otherwise, to break the coalition pact and call new elections.

The letter, which justifies its need to "not keep the people deceived," shows how in the last term, 4511-4515, Factio Liberalis did not propose a single new law to the Senate, benefiting electorally from the progressive measures proposed by In Marea. Similarly, it mentions that the party did not propose any law in the fifth cabinet of Panegyris Priscian, and just proposed a new law in the fourth cabinet. Although it is mentioned that it is important to maintain a progressive government for the correct improvement of the nation, it is indicated that "not everything is worth", and that the party can not harm itself to benefit others who earn a political return that does not corresponds to them.

For these reasons, the signatories of the letter ask to stop deceiving the citizens, because while In Marea-Civis Sinistram is moving forward on the proposal of new legislation, Factio Liberalis is taking out the political revenue being the majority partner of the government, despite not getting wet in the parliamentarism of the nation. They ask that Factio Liberalis be given a period of time to act and that, if this is not the case, the current government coalition will be terminated in favor of new elections. The letter also sets an example of the apathy with which the current Minister of Justice, of the Liberals, has acted, at the end of the term of the Fourth Court of the Supreme Court and not having convened the new places, having had to relapse that acting on the Princeps Senatus, from Factio Republicana.

In conversations with journalists after the leak of the letter, the Regional Secretary of the party in Insularia, Umbria Segestes, aligned with the most leftist theses of the IUVIM, in the same way as the current general secretary, said that although "they are grateful to Factio Liberalis for these years of coalition in which they have been approving progressive measures", their support has a price, and political passivity can not be tolerated, even less when it is to the detriment of their own party. Asked about why the other regional secretaries have not signed the letter, Segestes has stated that he has already held talks with all of them and that they are together in this petition to Axia Cinna, Secretary General of the party.

In the same way, sources of the national leadership have confirmed that Mrs. Cinna is taking seriously the proposal, which could mean that in a few months, if this crisis is not resolved, Selucia calls for early elections.
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