Al-Tasara Elected President January 17, 4232Ba'ath Party Regional Secretary Ayman al-Tasara has been elected President of Kafuristan. The 43 year old won the presidency with just under 56% of the vote while his party also captured a majority in the Majlis where it won 72 out of 130 seats, a healthy but not quite the overwhelming majority the Ba'athists had hoped for. The election is to prove one of the most disputed with many complaining about the activities of the Ba'ath Party's militias, the Popular Army and the youth oriented Ba'athist Defence League. It has been alleged that they targeted heavily religious areas and prevented voters from going to the polls. The investigation into such allegations in the muhafaza of Jerze'har was stopped abruptly after the local election commission chief was shot dead on his way to work. No one else has dared to raise the issue since. The Ba'athist militia continue growing rapidly with the Popular Army thought to be close to 8,000 members now while the Ba'athist Defence League claimed to have signed its 5,000th member a few days back.
President Ayman al-TasaraThe newly elected President has declared his special interest to be security and foreign affairs, devolving management of the planned economic reforms to the First Minister Dr. Hamid al-Watan. The domestic reforms are centered on strengthening security forces and ameliorating the still stale economic situation via
injection of large amounts of funds into the economy. President al-Tasara has already set out to reform Kafuristan's recently non-interventionist foreign policy, most notably
proposing that the country enter the Majatran Revolutionary Socialist Federation.