NOWOGARD, Valruzia (April 4821) - President Albert Vaughn-Rosta has confirmed earlier unofficial press reports that he will not be running for third re-election and that his third term as President of the Republic of Valruzia will be his last.
He has been present on the national political scene since the turn of the 1980s and 1990s, from 4798 to 4806 he was Prime Minister, and after the constitutional referendum and the introduction of the presidential system, he was elected President of the Republic of Valruzia in the same year. Then, in 4812 and 4818, he was re-elected President with historically high support, which puts him in the position of one of the most popular politicians in the country's history.
It was the policy of Vaughn-Rosta, grandson of the former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Jan Vaughn-Rosta, that restored the prestige of Valruzian politics and the economy. Albert Vaughn-Rosta took over as Prime Minister in 4798 following the resignation of his predecessor, Michał Prajsner, and continued his economic policy and, in international relations, focused on relations with Keymon, which resulted in the creation of the Commonwealth of Keymon and Valruzia in 4814.
It was also during his reign that Valruzia was elected to the World Congress Security Council in 4809 for the second time in history as President. The government is not planning an active campaign to re-elect Valruzia for the next term of the Security Council.
The political retirement of Vaughn-Rosta is, for many, synonymous with political instability, as a politician seen to be resolute in temperance with all the harmful political intentions of his rivals from his own party and from outside.
His departure means a rivalry between several factions inside the President's mother treasurer, the National Coalition Party, but everything seems to indicate that the national-conservative-liberal faction from which the President comes from will emerge victoriously from this rivalry.
The leader of this faction is now a close colleague and private friend of the President, Izabela Stiegler, the current Speaker of the Sejm. It is she who is described as the successor of the President. The potential election of Stiegler, who is known for her similar views to the President, is seen as preserving political and economic stability at home and in foreign relations.
Commentators point out that the vision of the candidate for relations with Keymon, with whom negotiations on the creation of a confederation have recently come to a standstill, is particularly important in the election of the successor to Vaughn-Rosta. Stiegler has repeatedly stated that she is an advocate of continuing cooperation with Keymon in the broadest possible sense and that she supports the President's actions on this issue.