Michele the First officialy swears as first Emperor of the Istalians!Despite the mounting criticism, the opposition's demonstrations and the many falsehoods spreads by it, the Government reassures the closer friends and welcomes the first international recognition to the new EmpireHis Majesty the Emperor swears in front the National Assembly, next to him Her Majesty the Empress Consort Margherita1 September 4573ROMULA - Great celebrations in the capital and in the whole Nation: His Majesty Michele I swore this morning in front of the Nation as first Emperor of the Istalians and Sovereign of the Istalian Empire.
Starting from Quattroregni Palace around 10 am, the procession of vehicles on which the Emperor, the High Dignities of the Crown, the members of his staff and obviously the Imperial Family were traveling, crossed the city to reach the Palace of the Republic acclaimed by at least one million people crowded along the route of the procession and throughout the rest of the city. Hanging from slender flagpoles, along the entire route and on both sides, the
new Imperial Flag of Istalia alternated with the new Imperial Banner while other istalian flags were waved by the cheering crowd.
People along the procession route (Left); mounted Imperial Guards (Right)To ensure the safety of the whole event, at least 10,000 law enforcement officers and emergencies specialists have been deployed between the State Police, National Gendarmerie and the medical personal of the city and rest of the province. Also deployed 500 men of the army to manage civil protection and providing water distribution points, additional medical assistance, along with the city operators, and the installation of the necessary public services.
To shine around the Imperial Procession the
newly reformed Corps of the Imperial Guard, successor to the previous Presidential Guard, who accompanied the cars by mounting fifteen horses and four motorcycles in their new and sparkling uniforms, armor and ceremonial vestments.
The Emperor reaches Palace of the RepublicThe Emperor arrived at the main entrance of the Palace of the Republic round 11, being hailed by the crowd that filled the square and the surrounding streets and thus giving way to the Investiture Ceremony, which was held in the Hall of the National Assembly, where in addition to the members of the Assembly, there were the Prime Minister and Government Ministers, the Judges of the Supreme Court, the President of the Supreme Tribunal of Cassation, the President of the Council of State, the Chief of Defense Staff, the Imperial Chancellor and the Archchancellor of the Empire (two of the three so-called High Dignities of the Empire, ceremonial figures created by the new Imperial Constitution). The Archchancellor was the one in charge of conducting the ceremony and essentially he made the Emperor swear before the Constitutions of Istalia and the Representatives of the Nation. Along the Rear Gallery, where the Senate members once sat when in common session with the Chamber of Deputies, there were the Presidents of the Regions and Provinces, Representatives of the various regional and provincial Councils, the other Judges of the Supreme Tribunal, members of the High Council of the Judiciary, the exponents of the National Association of Istalian Mayors, representatives of the institutional, cultural, economic and social world, and finally a large number of members of the Armed Forces, senior hierarchy and staff in tow. The Media were instead hosted along the Balcony, between the Hall and the Rear Gallery. The member of the Imperial Family seated on the right of the Emperor, at the last end of the Rear Gallery after the seats of the Armed Forces, welcomed into a highly ornated Honor Balconet presidied by the Imperial Guard. All the Assembly, indeed, for the occasion has been adorned with the colors of the Empire while around the Chair of State were disposed serveral shining golden adornments and garnishments.
The Emperor giving his speechThe Grand Chamberlain of the Empire, the monarch's master of ceremonies (and the third of the cerimonial High Dignities of the Empire), announced the arrival of the Emperor, who marched on the note of a solemn hymn along the central escalade of the hemicicle of the National Assembly until his seat on a Chair of State opposite to the members of the Assembly and observed behind by the highest officials of the State.
The Emperor gave an address before taking the oath to uphold the Constitutions and protect the Democratic Institution, Principles and Values of the Empire.
His Majesty, in his speech, thanked once again the Istalian People for its Confidence, reassuring the Nation about his resolutness in respecting his role as no-partisan, superior guardian of the Istalian Democracy, but once again his also reaffirmed his invitation to all the People to stand together and work together peacefully and with cooperative spirit, to face together the challenges of the future which, however, the Emperor described as bright, forged by decades of difficulties and unstability but from which Istalia rised once again, so to forge a new fate and a new future, where
"everyone must make their voices heard, bring their own contribution, their own talent. Everyone must collaborate with creativity, spirit of enterprise, and openness".
Finally, towards the Archchancellor of the Empire, who held in the hand a book containing the Istalian Constitutions and Foundamental Laws, the Emperor proceeded with his solemn oath in front of the Nation:
I swear to the People of Istalia that I shall constantly preserve and uphold the Constitutions of the Istalian Empire and that I shall defend the Democratic Institutional Order of the Empire as its Supreme Protector and Guardian.
I swear that I shall defend and preserve the independence and the territory of the Empire to the best of my ability, that I shall protect the Freedom and Rights of all Istalian Citizens and Residents, and that I shall employ all means placed at my disposal by the law to preserve and promote Democracy and Prosperity in the Empire, as a good Emperor should do.
This I promise!
Long live Istalia, Long live the Empire!
Following the Emperor's Oath, celebrated by flourishing trumpets, an another brief hymn and acclaimed by thunderous applause, the monarch was paid homage to by the assemblage of people. The President of the National Assembly made a declaration on behalf of those assembled, a declaration which focused on why the Nation took the decision to embody in perpetuity the Guide of the Nation to the Emperor, celebrating the qualities and the great achievement by Michele the First for him and the whole Nation. Then he swore on this declaration:
We receive and invest, in the name of the People of the Nation and in accordance with the Constitutions of the Istalian Empire, you, Michele, First of Your Name, as Emperor of the Istalians and Sovereign of the Istalian Empire.
We swear that we will maintain your inviolability and the rights of your Crown.
This we promise!
"Long live the Emperor!" for Michele IFollowing this, the names of the Members of the National Assembly were called out, who then swore or affirmed his declaration in turn. After every member have sworn, the Grand Chamberlain of the Empire declared the ceremony to have been completed. This was followed by the Archchancellor of the Empire exclaiming that the monarch has been inaugurated and the President of the National Assembly crying "Long live the Emperor!" responded by the public which shouted also three hurrahs.
The cerimony continued into the Transet of Honors of the Palace, the large monumental corridor between the two hemicicle of the building, where was held an homage cerimony for the Emperor with the partecipating to the Oath.
After the homage ceremony, the monarch and his retinue then proceeded outside the Palace where the Emperor and the Empress found a large choir of children singing a joyful hymn to His Majesty. The Imperial Couple remained to heard the choir untill the end of the hymn to greet the children before getting into the car and returning with the rest of the procession to the Palace where was held an official reception.
The "Tricolor Comets" of the Imperial Air Force passing above Quattroregni PalaceDespite the joyful day, the opposition to the Imperial Reform made heard their voices, organized four demonstartions only in Romula, which, however, for security reason, were contained and separated by the Cerimony and the areas interested. The demonstrations, led by the Istalian Nationalist Party, never fall in violence and indeed the demonstrators doesn't excede in dangerous behavior, a part a single episode when a group of 35 tried to pass a checkpoint not far from Palace of the Republic, causing a little retard to the Emperor exiting the Palace, as reported by the Romula's Head of State Police in the afternoon.
Just about the PNI, the political propagandistic machine of the party was able to cause not little trouble for the Govenrment, commented the First Secretary of the Office of the Prime Minister Damiano Valenti, who talked about the serious crisis which the Government is trying to solve with Solentia and seems that similar diplomatic incidents are interesting also the relations with Selucia.
The
"Istalian Government", continued the First Secretary,
"is very busy in reassuring several friend governments about the goodness of the Institutional reform undertaken by Istalia and of the fact that the principles of Democracy, Law of the Rules and Respect of the Rights of the Citizens are never been in danger or undermined and that the Istalian Empire is and will always remain a Democratic Nation".
In the next days the Emperor himself will be involved in a first State visit organized after the diplomatic troubles with Solentia with its President and other members of the Government ready to meet the Emperor and the Prime Minister in Romula.
Copies of the new Imperial Constitution adopted by Istalia has been sent to many foreign governments together with official invitations to the diplomatic departments of the reached countries by part of His Majesty the Emperor to meet their diplomatic representatives in Quattroregni Palace.
But from abroad not only concerns and misurestanding: in fact, recently (November 4574), a warmly welcomed diplomatic message came from Hulstria, a letter adressed directly to His Majesty the Emperor from the Hulstrian Kaiser.
The Spokeperson of the Imperial Palace made known that the Kaiser congratulated His Majesty the Emperor for his enthronement and for the constitutional reform undertaken in Istalia, inviting also the Emperor to visit Kien and both the Kaiser Hans Friedrick Albert lll and the Kaiserine Annemarie l, a letter which followed the friendly messages already sent in the past years by the Hulstrian Government to the Istalian one.
The Emperor, said the Spokeperson of the Palace, expressed to the Kaiser his thanks and that he would be very pleased to visit Kien and Imperial Hulstrian Court, ready to promote more dialogue and increase the relations between the two nation.
The letter has been indicated by the most fanatic supporters of the Imperial reform as a sign of the new prestige that the Istalian Emperor can bring to the Country.