Istalia

National news threads that host the key national news outlets for each of the game’s countries.

Re: Quanzar

Postby Aethan » Tue Feb 15, 2022 2:02 pm

Protests arise over election of Head of State!
The protesters refuse to recognize the Emperor as the legitimate HoS of the Union and many cities are seeing daily clashes


Image
Protesters gather in the Alarian capital city

It's official: the Union of Quanzar and Alaria has as Head of State, again, an emperor. After the ratification of the Constituent Assembly, Paolo Tommaso I has become the new Emperor of the Union, putting an end to the republican stage of the nation.

Shortly after the news was known, numerous protests quickly spread through social networks, the largest being the one with the explicit support of Radiciale. His federal secretary, Ginevra Nardozzi, declared that "true democracy was dying today" moments after the ratification of Tommaso I as Emperor, and called on the people to "rise up in the face of this outrage."

Although the protests did not wait long, the largest was undoubtedly the one that gathered, at noon, thousands of people in the center of the Alarian capital, between songs of "Emperor to the wall" and burning dolls that represented the entire imperial family.

Image
Disturbs at night in many cities of the Union

With the security forces and bodies overwhelmed, several nights of protests have been taking place, in which the streets burn at the mercy of the rioters who accuse the Constituent Assembly of being "manipulative", "submissive to the Emperor" or "pusillanimous".

Despite the fact that the support between the police and the Army for the restoration of the Istalian Empire is no secret, the protesters have found an unexpected support: the fire department, a sector traditionally more linked to the "feeling of the people". In many of the protests, it has been firefighters who have led the first row of the demonstrations, acting as a shield against the police and the rest of the security forces. The head of the fire department of the Alarian capital, Alessandro Saporito, has been arrested in one of the protests, which has further inflamed the spirits of the protesters, who have ended up throwing stones and cobblestones at the police.

Image
Clashes between police forces and firefighters are happening all over the Union

At the moment there have been no deaths, but the material damage is counted in droves and new cases of people injured in the protests arrive at hospitals daily.

From Radiciale, Mrs. Nardozzi - who herself has led several of the protests, facing the security forces - has called for "not to give up" and to make clear the discontent for what she considers "a stab" at democracy and the will popular, which has the right to "periodically elect its leaders".

"What makes Mr. Tommaso more deserving than me of holding the Head of State? Why should his blood have more value than mine, or that of any other citizen who is here worthily protesting for their freedoms? Why should we tolerate the imposition of a new Emperor, or why should our children and grandchildren bear this imposition? Why are they so afraid of democracy? Why this obsession to put as the highest representative of the nation a family to which we all have to bow down and submit? Is there no psychologist who can analyze this? From here, we shout no! No to the Emperor! No to the imperial family! Long live republican freedom!"
she has proclaimed in a speech in front of the parliament building.
In Marea - Civis Sinistram - Selucia Former
Left Bloc - Istalia
Bright Spring - Kirlawa

PT Wiki Admin
User avatar
Aethan
 
Posts: 1110
Joined: Wed Oct 05, 2016 7:59 am
Location: Somewhere in the Iberian Peninsula

Re: Quanzar

Postby Rogue » Tue Feb 15, 2022 2:45 pm

Playing in:

Istapali
User avatar
Rogue
 
Posts: 4224
Joined: Thu Mar 29, 2018 12:11 pm

Re: Quanzar

Postby XanderOne » Wed Feb 16, 2022 1:22 am

Constitution of the Second Istalian Empire at vote
The new foundamental law will maintain a federal form of the state, will continue to protect the cultural diversity of the country, will introduce a federal upper house that will give a strong voice to the constituent Communities and outline a strong centrality of the legislature
Image

12 October 5075

COLSAMIA- This morning around 11 o'clock the Madame President of the Constituent Assembly Stefania Casciongi officially started the debate and voting procedures of the Constitution of the Second Istalian Empire, finalized after almost two years of work by the Assembly and the dedicated commissions that they availed themselves of the collaboration and advice of jurists, constitutionalists and various experts in the sector.

After long and heated debates that saw the federalist and unionist positions confront each other, finally the former prevailed and in fact the new constitution will maintain the federal form of the state inherited from the Union of Quanzar and Alaria.
The Constitution recognizes, and therefore confirms, enshrined among the very first articles that outline the nature of the new State, the role of the constituent States of the previous Union, i.e. the current Community of Sarrentina and the Autonomous Community of Alaria, which have been confirmed as Federal Communities of the State which made up the Istalian Empire.
The new constitution, to give a greater, more autonomous and more incisive voice to the two Federal Communities, provides for the creation of an upper federal house, which will be known as the Federal Council, which will form with the lower house, the National Assembly, the National Congress. Although the National Assembly, the House of the People, will have a greater role between the two houses, the Federal Council will be part of legislative power and will have equal competence and power on all those matters that affect the Federal Communities and other local authorities as well as on all constitutional issues, ratification of treaties and declaration of war and peace.
The Federal Council will also meet in joint session with the National Assembly for the election and appointment of various other offices and positions of the state apparatus, particularly regarding the judiciary, and to deal with various matters concerning the Crown.

The new constitution not only recognizes the existence of the Federal Communities and gives them a much more incisive role in the administration of the state but will also continue to protect the cultural diversity and particularities of the country, incorporating in the constitution itself the recognition of a special and protected status for the local Istalian languages ​​as well as for the Majatran, thus making the reforms introduced in this area during the very first years of the Union of Quanzar and Alaria its own, reconfirming how, despite the fears of a slavish return to the past and of damnatio memoriae for the Union, what has happened in the past forty years has had a real impact on the history and culture of the country which will be preserved in several form.

The new constitution outlines a strong centrality of Congress in the institutional system and to the disappointment of the hardest core of monarchical conservatives, as had already emerged during the debates of the last year, the most important amendments that under the first Empire had modified the first constitution were incorporated into the new fundamental law, namely the role of the President of the National Assembly who will be the institutional figure in charge of conducting the post-electoral consultations between the political forces of the Assembly and therefore of identifying and appointing a candidate Prime Minister to form a Government who then will have to present himself in front of the Assembly for the vote of confidence.

The constitution derogates the fixing of various details of the various State institutions to the law, such as the number of members of the two Houses, the duration of the legislature, the methods of election of Deputies and Councilors, of the designation of the Presidents of the Houses and their powers, and so on, to be adopted with constitutional laws obviously and therefore with a strengthened majority.

Regarding the role of the Emperor, the constitution clearly delineates the status of ceremonial Head of State, a symbol of the unity of the State and the highest protective figure of the Constitution, of the democratic nature of the state and of the values ​​and principles of Istalia. As Head of State he will assume the role of the highest representative of the Istalian Empire in international relations and of Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, although also on the latter point this role will be effectively ceremonial given that, as usual for constitutional and parliamentary monarchies, all the acts and duties that the Emperor must perform must be countersigned by the Prime Minister and by the Cabinet and/or by the competent ministers.

Precisely with regard to the figure of the Emperor, in response to the street demonstrations organized by the anti-monarchist movements, the member of the Constituent Assembly Casimiro Del Debbio intervened before the journalists, a well-known jurist and constitutional expert formerly full professor of Constitutional Law at the State University of Castiell 'e Sciorenza and then at the prestigious Scuola Normale Superiore (Superior Graduate School) of Villanedria, which together with 20 other renowned academic experts conducted a comparative study which led in 5062 to the book "Monarchical Governments in Modern Democracy". Del Debbio defended the parliamentary constitutional monarchical state form, underlining how indeed this form of government can function better within a democratic system and contribute to its stability and permanence:

First of all, let me say you that democracy is perfectly compatible with constitutional monarchy. The history of the world has shown us how countless of nation having such kind of monarchical form of government proved to be among the most stable and prosperous democratic state. Just to mention some? The first Istalian Empire itself, the Kingdom of Kazulia, the United Kingdom of Lourenne e previous monarchical predecessors, the Kingdom of Rildanor, the monarchical Commonwealth of Hutori, recently re-established, the Septembrist monarchy of Hulstria and Goa-Soto, the millennial and pacific Empire of Sekowo and there are a lot of other examples I can provide. What they have in common? Well defined and established democratic rules and proceedures with clear system of counterbalance between all the powers of the state, what the Constituent Assembly is introducing now in voting to this new Constitution.

It is true, the history gave us also a lot of other examples of tyrannical and authoritarian monarchy, but we have to consider and analize how these regime were established and on what basis. Most of the "nastier" and most tyrannical and undemocratic monarchical regime where established through coups d'etat, through the size of power by part of anti-democratic movements or by part of dictators and authoritarian rulers, without any truly democratic process and in most of the case without a constitution or with foundamental laws that had nothing of democratic, that were emptied of any real democratic limitation or that indeed underlined openly an undemocratic form of government. Some examples? Many of the monarchical regimes established in Selucia, with the traditional selucian emperors, most of the times, recognized openly as a true political rulers like in ancient times; virtually all of the monarchical regimes established by the Thallers, originated by violent and authoritarian seizure of power; the numberous majatran monarchical regimes in Kafuristan, where almost as a costant the foundamental laws established huge degree of powers to kings and sultans; the Hessexian kingdoms establishe here in Istalia, where behind the facade of a costitutional monarchy to the monarchs were always recognized great powers and, most important, where truly the expression of specific political parties aimed by a clear mission.

The benefits of a parliamentary constitutional monarchy are indeed numberous:

A monarchy is justified on the grounds that it provides for a nonpartisan head of state, separate from the daily political struggle of executive government, and thus ensures that the highest representative of the country, at home and internationally, does not only represent a particular political party, but all people. It offer a disinterested support for civil society that is beyond the reach of partisan politics. An elected although cerimonial Head of State is always electoral expression of only a part of a people and, if elected by the parliament, expression of political parties and/or result of political agreements behind which there cannot be particular interests. Such Head of State regularly have been involved in daily politics before assuming the post, they are typically former politicians.

It is their symbolic importance that arguably represents the most valuable aspect of monarchs. Such a symbol can be a powerful weapon against corruption and disunity. Indeed monarchy can unite people more than any politicians who tipically represent only their party. Although could seems just glittering things, events like jubilees and coronations give us not only days off (yay!) but also bring us together in national pride. It isn’t very often that crowds gather in such away like in similar events when a politician is in town.

Monarchs do not rely on a particular political party’s support in order to maintain their office, they are not career politicians who rely on popular votes to maintain their position, the institution extinguishes the hopes of faction by rising above the too much often toxic partisanship of competing parties and vying elected officials. However, although hereditary, the monarchy is accountable, just like any other public institution, we must not forget this.

Demagogic dictators and authoritarian rulers have proved unremittingly hostile to monarchy because the institution represents a veritable limits to their ambitions and for them dangerous alternative to their will of veneration. The need for a Prime Minister to regularly account for themselves to a monarch has important consequences we all can easily imagine.
Constitutional monarchs make it difficult for dramatic political changes to occur, oftentimes by representing principle, values and customs that politicians cannot replace and few citizens would like to see overthrown.

A monarchy lends to a political order a vital element of continuity that enables gradual reform. The rule of law is thus guaranteed by respect for authority and that respect for authority is much more easily granted to a man whose father has had it, than to an upstart, and so Society is more easily supported. The continuity of a family and their different generations attract the interest of all age groups.

About more practical motivations, ceremonial work at home and abroad is taken care of by the crown, meanwhile, the Prime Minister can focus more on running the country and the crown and its members are effective tools of soft diplomacy. By separating the ceremonial and the actual power of government, there is a check on the egomania of politicians, who are not sheltered from the real world to the same extent as are royalty.

Furthermore we can say that monarchs usually have as much money and property as they need, property that indeed in most part belong to the State, and because their wealth is inherited and they do not work for or own private companies, the public does not need to worry about hidden financial motivations. And in the end in any case in constitutional parliamentary monarchies the parliaments and the representatives of the people decides about how many money grant to the monarchs and their use is always under the lens of the democratic institutions.

About some of the most recent critics on the issues of the privileges accorded to the Emperor and the Imperial Family, it is true that they lead lives of great privilege, but we have to underline also the fact that they lack of many fundamental freedoms: the right to privacy and family life which ordinary citizens take for granted, free choice of careers, freedom to marry whom they like. Even the right to vote, one of the most important rights that every citizen detains into a democracy, it is denied to them. The priviliges recognized to them belance these lack of rights recognized to any other citizens. They are constantly subject to scrutiny by part of the public opinion regurlarly in the media: alongside all the fawning coverage and glossy pictures, there is more serious investigative journalism which keeps all the monarchies on their toes, scrutinising their expenditure, their hunting trips, even their choice of friends.

Republicans could respond, although childishly, that hereditary rulers may prove mad or bad but actually in a modern monarchy the monarchs do not rules the nations and the succession is matter where also the democratic government has a voice.
Republicans could say us that it is better when people can choice their rulers because it is the highest expression of democracy. Ok, but into a parliamentary constitutional monarchy indeed they elect their rulers, they elect their representatives and the results of each elections led to the rise and fall from power of their rulers, because, as I have already underlined, the monarchs in moder monarchy don't rule, they reign but don't rule, their representatives do, the politicians do.
And as already underlined, and I'm going to close this digression, it's that sometimes, too much often in my opinion in this world, the politicians, without opposition and without neutral power really above the politics, can easily empty the democratic institution of any power and can affect really negatively the life of their fellow citizens. And we only need to look to the past of our country: what happens when the first Empire was abolished and the Six Republics was founded? For the first years the republic functioned without too many differences with respect to the Empire, it is true, but the National Party slowly, and undoubtedly thanks to the fact that it had held the highest office of the state for so long, has accumulated influence and power, probably working in the shadow also to weaken the other parties, adopting any strategy and means to hold power, regardless of whether these were beneficial to the country, and when the last trace of opposition vanished, the country finally slipped into the hands of that party and of their leaders who did what they wanted with it, with great harm to our citizens, without any counterbalance to their power. Should I recall the clericalism and the restrictive measures on civil and social liberties that were introduced? Not to mention the stagnation and the final fate reserved for Istalia.

In the end, we may easily devise imaginary forms of government, in which the power shall be constantly bestowed on the most worthy, by the free and incorrupt suffrage of the whole community but, alas, experience overturns these airy fabrics.

Thank you



OOC:
source: https://thecrownchronicles.co.uk/explan ... overnment/
https://www.vox.com/2015/9/9/9294955/qu ... l-monarchy
https://blog.hmns.org/2019/04/is-monarc ... democracy/
https://constitution-unit.com/2020/09/3 ... democracy/
https://theconversation.com/a-radical-t ... racy-96342
XanderOne
 
Posts: 765
Joined: Tue Apr 02, 2019 12:15 pm

Re: Quanzar

Postby Polites » Wed Feb 16, 2022 2:01 pm

Image

Protests Intensify
July 5075

Image

The protests launched in reaction to the restoration of the Istalian Empire and the adoption of a new constitution have grown in intensity and violence. Daily clashes between protesters, often backed by firefighters, and the police have been taking place in every major city and even some towns. The protests have been accompanied by looting, the destruction of property, vandalism, and police brutality, and in spite of this they show no signs of slowing down. Considering the election of the Constituent Assembly in February last year to have been an anti-democratic coup, the protests increased in violence as the proclamation of Paolo Tommaso as Emperor of Istalia and the abolition of the nations of Quanzar and Alaria fueled the flames of discontent and anger towards the new political system.

Image

The protest movement has coalesced around the newly-founded Radiciale party, political heir to the Popular Front of Alaria and strong opponent of the monarchy. This month Radiciale has been joined by another, possibly even more radical political party, Together. Together is not a traditional political party; instead of having a leadership and members, Together is formed of autonomous local assemblies at the village, town, or neighborhood level, and each assembly has its own ideological distinctiveness, though they are united by a firm left wing platform and opposition to the monarchy. The leadership of Together is exercised collectively by a 13-member leadership council, elected by the local assemblies who also have the ability to recall them at any time. Although sharing ideological space with Radiciale, Together, or at least some of the local assemblies which constitute the party, seems to be even more radical. Calling not only for the abolition of the monarchy, Together has been vocal in its anti-capitalist demands, calling for the nationalization of all major industries and the establishment of a democratically-planned economy. The speeches of some of its leaders also explicitly call for violence against what they see as an illegitimate state.

Image

Mahmuda al-Hamidi, for instance, addressed the crowds in Magliano with calls of "Death to the Emperor!". Another member of the Leadership Council, Łusia Campitelli, was previously arrested for vandalizing the Imperial Mausoleum and has gone on record as saying that, with the lack of a legitimate state, a "revolution is both necessary and imminent", while Jenoveffa Paone addressed excited crowds in Torre d''o Sulento with calls to a war of Quanzarian independence, drowned by the participants' chants of "Quanzar! Quanzar!". Although the distinct ideological views of Together are not yet clearly formalized, the new party may prove to be a dangerous and unpredictable addition to the country's political landscape.

Image
Polites
 
Posts: 3198
Joined: Tue May 11, 2010 3:48 pm

Re: Quanzar

Postby Rogue » Wed Feb 16, 2022 2:53 pm

Playing in:

Istapali
User avatar
Rogue
 
Posts: 4224
Joined: Thu Mar 29, 2018 12:11 pm

Re: Quanzar

Postby XanderOne » Wed Feb 16, 2022 5:56 pm

Sarjani responds to the protests: "Where these people were few years ago? Nobody forced them to vanish from the political landscape! We will not be ashamed in reclaiming our rights to exists and to assert our identity and defend our history!"
The Interim Head of Government, talking with the Deltarian envoy aimed to help to stabilize the situation, promoted attempts of conciliatory approaches but after having avoided measures against demonstrators in respect of their rights he also now assumes much harsher tones not sparing criticism in every direction
Image

13 August 5075

COLSAMIA - With protests that are becoming more and more intense in the country and following the appearance of elements willing to increasingly violent actions that risk endangering the life and property of citizens, the Interim Head of Government Ahmed Sarjani today, although also following the path of dialogue and conciliation, exposed himself with much harsher tones towards the protests, and not only.

The President and the Government are trying to calm the situation with attempts at conciliation and involvement of the recently emerged political movements on the works for the delineation of the new legislative and legal situation of the country, also announcing the Government's proposal for the creation of a dialogue table to discuss the instances brought forward by the Quanzarian movements, proposals also arrived following talks with the Deltarian diplomatic envoy coming in the country to help to defuse the increasing tensions.

At the same time, however, as mentioned, after having adopted the softest possible approach to the protests, which did not see direct action taken by the government but which left the local police authorities with the task of avoiding the deterioration of the situation by trying to protect citizens and property and without having issued any declaration in this regard in respect of the citizens' right to protest and freely express their ideas, Sarajani in front of the journalists summoned to Antinori Palace this morning did not shy away from criticizing the most violent fringes of the demonstrators, also responding to numerous criticisms and accusations arrived in the last months against the Government and the Constituent Assembly and, despite the thanks to the Deltarian interest, he did not spare even criticism towards the international stage for what is happening and what happened in the past:

The freedom to protest and to express one's views is not and will never be challenged by this government, I want this to be clear. Furthermore, this government cannot shy away from opening up to dialogue with political forces, instances and issues that the country is facing and we are already taking measures in this direction.

Let me also thank the Deltarian Government for the attention paid to our country and its offers of collaboration and mediation to alleviate the tensions that are emerging.

But what this administration will never be ready to accept it's to allow our citizens to be endangered, even in danger of life, by violent actions by those who demonstrate. It will never accept that violence and even the threat of weapons and devastation are used as political tools.

In past years, similar acts have been, rightly, heavily criticized by all the governments that have succeeded each other, despite the fact that some political forces of the time continued to place responsibilities on my political movement that did not belong to it and for which my party also breaks with elements that instead had tried to exploit similar means focusing indeed on working for the well being of the Union which, however, finally was recognized as came to the end of its experience and having losing reason to be, something openly recognized even by the newly founded party Radiciale and attested by the refoundation of the Istalian Communist Party.

We want to open up to dialogue and seek compromises, it is true, but it will be very difficult to be able to reach compromises with those who, among their political programs, place open contempt and the threat of eradication for the culture of their fellow citizens, to be precise the "anti-istalian" policy professed by those who today threaten the country even of a revolution. Revolution or genocide? This I ask myself. How can we only open a constructive dialogue with those who want nothing more than to suppress an entire culture and millennia of history?

Furthermore, to the numerous accusations that have come in recent months regarding the Constituent Assembly and the reforms undertaken, the questions that I as well as many other citizens are asking are simple: where these people were few years ago? Where were they while a single political force remained at the side of our citizens while the other melted under the sun? Nobody forced them to vanish from the political landscape! What is more evident it was the deflate of their populistic propaganda facing the people who years after years rejected the lies and the attempts to eradicate another people and another history. What gives to these people more rights to exist? What gives to these people the right to put themself against the people to which they belonged threatening them of eradication and what give them the right to change our history? It is unconfortable even to talk about different people when from time immemorial there were always and were always recognized the unity and the richness of one people with different souls?

And talking and responding to whom raises suspicions about foreign intervention but also about the recent great international interest raises about our country: where was the world when an entire country and centuries of history where eradicated? Where was the world when it was almost criminalized the name Istalia and the name Istalians? Where was a world so annoyed by Istalia for a millenium during which Istalia arose among the greatest and most powerful countries of the world and became one of the protagonists of the world history trying its best to respect everyone and everything, the history and the identity of everyone and everycountry? Where were these advocates of Quanzar for exactly 1711 years since the fall of the last ridiculous artanianized Kingdom of Quanzar? Where were these "oppressed people" during all these centuries when the last veritable and indeed ephemeral ethnic movement advocating separate majatran identity that organized itself occured in 3607 with the Ahmadi Freedom Party of Mohamed Zaquari? Where in all the subsequent history we can found so many ethnic and political tensions to justify today the eradication and retconing in full of millennia of existence and history?
At this point it is more justiable by our part the suspicions and the dubts about a veritable international plot to undermine our right to exists, to undermine the countless and incalculable efforts to made this country one of the country who made the history of Terra!
Should be ashamed for what we are doing? Not at all! Even beyond the diatriba about the form of government of our State we are reclaiming our rights to exists and to assert our identity and defend our history!
XanderOne
 
Posts: 765
Joined: Tue Apr 02, 2019 12:15 pm

Re: Quanzar

Postby XanderOne » Thu Feb 17, 2022 12:06 am

Istalians all over the country gathers together ready to defend their right to exists and their country
In response to the thread of a revolution and even a war by part of the Quanzarian supporters and despite the call to dialogue from the politics many istalians declared to be ready to resort to "any means"
Image

28 August 5075

28 August 5075

COLSAMIA- Many of the conciliation proposals and the invitations by the Government to participate in the work of the Constituent Assembly seem to have fallen on deaf ears, with the refusal of various exponents of extra-assembly political forces to enter into any dialogue.

Therefore, following the words of President Sarjani with which he proudly reaffirmed his intention not to bow in the face of those who would like to see the Istalians eradicated from the face of the Earth, and in the face of the threat of Quanzarian extremists to take up arms, for many citizens the diatribe on the form of government seems to have faded into the background, feeling their very existence and identity once again put in danger.

Across the country for about two months, groups of Istalian nationalists have been responding to protests unleashed by the extra-assembly opposition with anti-demonstrations and sit-ins in major Istalian cities and if such protests initially arose against all opposition movements, in recent two weeks focused on countering the Quanzarian nationalists.

The most impressive demonstration of the last three days was the one at the Imperial Mausoleum where thousands of people gathered after one of the Guards of the National Institute of the Guard of Honor of the Imperial Mausoleum was sent to the hospital when trying to stop an attempted break-in by violent rioters who were blocked by the intervention of other guards.

At the same time, the tones by part of the Istalian nationalists have become more and more severe and threatening, becoming more and more hostile towards the Quanzarians, bringing to mind times almost two thousand years away. Among the leaders of the Istalian nationalist movements that are distinguishing themselves in these days there are Michele Corlione, son of Lucrezia Corlione who was the leader until a few decades ago of the "Istalian Resurgence" movement, Francesca Sangiorgio, who belongs to a long-standing military family, among which there was Pierluigi Sangiorgio, last Chief of Staff of the Air Force of the former Istalian Armed Forces, and Husayn Kelhil, former member of the most unionist fringes of Identity and Unity, elected for three consecutive terms to the Parliament of the Community of Quanzar in the region di Fidelia, which in the last three elections under the Union became a stronghold of the IeU, and who left the party about a year ago in contrast with the prevalence of federalist positions during the debates into the Constituent Assembly.

They were approached by the press looking for an interview or some statement just a few days ago but this turned out to be rather difficult as both they and many Istalian nationalists have shown a certain mistrust, especially for the foreign press whose lights have been set on the country in recent months, embracing the increasingly meandering idea among nationalists that forces outside the country are operating in the shadows for its destruction.

Francesca Sangiorgio did not talk to the press refusing to release any statements and instead focusing on leading the crowds, moving assiduously from one city to another to participate in the various events and sit-ins, travelling aboard a SUV adorned with tricolor flags and always accompanied by other cars with a veritable escort on board fearing assaults against Sangiorgio by extremist opponents. Now almost a ritual during the apparitions of the Sangiorgi, the Istalian hymn "Fratelli d'Istalia" is transmitted through megaphones and loudspeakers, but not completely, only the first verse and then, sung with much more vigor by turning up the volume, the last verse in which the renowned text refers precisely to the suffering inflicted on the Istalians by the Quanzar domination. During the demonstrations the slogans, as mentioned, became more and more belligerent, among which: "Chase away the Quanzar!", "Istalia or death!", "Never foreigners in our house!", and also "Istalia! Istalia!" counterbalancing similar choirs from Quanzarian positions, and so on.

Michele Corlione, selecting exclusively journalists from the south of the peninsula and from Alaria, instead released the following words in front of the cameras and surrounded by supporters:

They had managed to bend us once, they had managed to wipe out what clearly came out to be an uncomfortable nation that had always been despised by many greater powers, but like we did already three times in the past, we raised again our heads, we fought them until they disappeared and we finally reconquered OUR country! But as it happens, just now that we have managed to return to being the masters of our fate, here the worms and cockroaches reappeared to destroy us again! We will never allow them to endanger our future again!
("Yes!" The crowd echoes him)

We will never allow them to stain our glorious past again!
("Yes!" The crowd shouts again)

And they better watch out! Because this time they will not find an apathetic country and angry and disbanded people ready to support them and their populistic lies, this time they will have to pass over our dead bodies! We are ready for anything, I said ANYTHING!
("Ready to Anything!" The crowd around him again shouts even more exalted)

They have to face three political forces who now recognize Istalia as their country! To hell even the Emperor seeing how he is "involved" for our cause! Monarchy or Republic I don't care anymore! What is certain is that the time has come to put these fucking Quanzars back to their rightful place, that is in the oblivion of history as they have been for two thousand years, by any means possible!
("Hang all the Quanzars!" finally shouts the whole crowd with fire in their eyes)


Husayn Kelhil went to great lengths in talking without limitations to the press and preferring to meet them away from the demonstrators although he too used rather bright tones and did not shy away from saying he too was ready to do anything to defend the country and, for his part, also the Emperor:

I really don't understand all this madness and where all this senseless ethnographic ideology comes from. I am a majatran istalian, I am an ahmadi unlike many majatran istalians who are hosians or atheists, and I am someone who could truly define himself a quanzar, even better a Quanzarite, which term historically has always identified the majatran and tendentially ahmadi community present in Istalia. And I can tell you that unlike some recent statements by political leaders in the Constituent Assembly, I have never felt humiliated or denigrated by this denomination.
And let me tell you: I should be the first to feel offended by people like Luisa Campitelli or people like Jenoveffa Paone! From my point of view they are usurpers who are using a term that has never belonged to them! Their predecessors stubbornly fought to divide the Istalians between Sarrentini and Alarians, why don't they use those terms instead of a term that has distinguished the majatran and ahmadi communities of this country for millennia?
Already my father, Imam of the Neapulia Mosque, paled forty years ago in the face of the seizure of power of these exalted, my grandfather who was a worker in the shipyards of Terebbia when he was still called Triesta and the rest of his community would be literally lost and speechless in a country like this. Oppression? Whose? The Island on the Peninsula or the Peninsula on the Island? Who should we have listened to? To the heirs of the Quanzarian League or to those of the Popular Front of Alaria? We have only heard people complain of oppression, everyone complaining about the opposite ones on the other side of the Missena Channel but who then allied between them for their particular interests. And now some of these exaltated threaten a revolution... a revolution and a war! War for what? To continue to usurp a term that only I and those of my community have the right to bear? Go ahead, I'll be ready to wait for them, try to enter my house, try to enter the homes of many of my brothers or in our mosques, we will be ready to give them what they deserve! The most highest Akim may forgive me for these words but to such madness, to those who threaten us with the menace of the weapons one can only respond in this way. And let me say that for my part I will be ready to fight for the Emperor and for what he represents, for a dynasty that has proven, even by fact, to be truly a symbol of all this land, people that has linked itself, with blood, to my ethnicity and my culture, a culture that has not only seen Ghazi Al Maydan marry the Empress Michela and give the name to subsequent Emperors, but which has also expressed countless other statesmen of this nation, under the empire as under the republics. Should I mention Aghar Yassen and El Salefi, both Presidents of the World Congress Assembly? Or Fatima el-Nouri, also at the top of the country's national and international politics? These were true and worthy Quanzarites! Other than these last minute upstarsts, thieves as far as I am concerned, thieves of identity who do nothing but discredit my community! This country, the only times that it has borne the name Quanzar, has only seen the perpetration of suffering and persecution! Starting with the destruction of Fidelia in 1771, passing through the subjugation of the Kingdom of Istalia in 1959 and then the three ominous kingdoms of the Hessex, a branch of the Kansar, artanianized descendants of the Quanzars. Despite this this country for at least 17 centuries had found stability and serenity and had learned to accept us too, testimony of a past that has been accepted and, for better or worse, forged the Istalia that has become, as the President Sarjani said, one of the great countries that has really contributed to the history of Terra. If to defend this country, a country of ideals and sacred principles rather than a country of ethnic groups and languages, we must also accept the maximum sacrifice, well, I'm ready! For Istalia, for the Istalian Quanzarites, for the Emperor, for the unity of this country and for all the ideals that this nation has always embodied!


If for the moment the demonstrations of the Istalians nationalist have not seen either violence or clashes, clearly having nothing to complain to the police who instead find it difficult to keep them separated from the demonstrations of the Quanzarian nationalists, what is evident is the growing radicalization also among the Instalian ranks, so much so that the Minister, former Secretary, of Internal Affairs Lela Al Marsal today in the afternoon met the Steering Committee for Federal Security to investigate the most extremist fringes of all the factions and start investigations on possible illicit arms trafficking after a deposit of decommissioned armaments of the old Istalian Armed Forces in the outskirt of Ingona was raided by unknown persons two nights ago.
In the meantime, after other several reports about the damages and the assaults against several monuments and other places considered as highly symbolic by part of the Istalians, the Minister also get in touch with the local authorities of both Alaria but expecially the Sarrentine Community in order to increase the presence of the police in these places.

For the moment, the Emperor has not spoken out or made any statements at the suggestion of Prime Minister Sarjani who has declared that the Head of State must neither stoop to give credit to those who question the regularity of the electoral processes and the work of the Constituent Assembly after no evidence has yet been brought to the attention of the authorities, nor to risk fomenting the degeneration of the most extremist wings even of the Istalian nationalist faction which is clearly evident that it is also beginning to become a thorn in the side for the now Prime Minister Sarjani, who despite the recent show of strength does not want to close the door of negotiations and absolutely does not want extremists of all factions to risk making him get the situation out of hand.
XanderOne
 
Posts: 765
Joined: Tue Apr 02, 2019 12:15 pm

Re: Quanzar

Postby Polites » Thu Feb 17, 2022 11:10 am

Image

Protests Continue
December 5075

Image

Although the protests triggered by the new constitution and the restoration of the Empire have slowed down slightly with the arrival of the hot summer months, they still show no sign of ending any time soon. The pro-Istalian counter-protests supported by the government but also attended by the most violent fringes of the Istalian ideology have galvanized the republican and anti-Istalian left, who now seem more determined than ever to see what they consider an illegitimate monarch overthrown. The political aspect of the protest has also become intimately tied with the national, as the establishment of the Empire comes with the abolition of the nations of Quanzar and Alaria and the restoration of Istalian identity.

The leadership of the radical Together political movement have however rejected all comparisons with preceding political parties under the now defunct Union of Quanzar and Alaria. Addressing protesting crowds in Magliano the spokeswoman of the party, Camelia Capaldi, drew a sharp distinction between her party and the Quanzarian League:

The usurping government would have you believe that Quanzarism and Alarianism are dead and that the only ones who still cling to it are the nostalgic heirs of the League and the Front. But I say this: the League were nothing but cowardly traitors, traitors to the working class and traitors to Quanzar, who compromised with the Istalian bourgeoisie to gain a handful of votes. We have as much to do with them and their reactionary ways as we do with the neo-Nazis accross the street [pointing towards the Istalian counter-protesters]. Unlike the treasonous League, we will resist until we have achieved our liberation and the return of our lands!


Image

Camelia Capaldi had also been appointed the representative of Together in its negotiations with the government as part of its "National Table for the Dialogue on the Quanzarian Instances", however the hard-line preconditions imposed by the local assemblies of Together seem to make such a dialogue impossible. Camelia Capaldi has been charged with demanding the abdication of the Emperor, the withdrawal of all Istalian armed and police forces from the Sarrentina Peninsula, and the annulment of the Constituent Assembly elections, preconditions that are very unlikely to be accepted. Under these circumstances it appears that the national and political conflict will continue indefinitely.

Image
Polites
 
Posts: 3198
Joined: Tue May 11, 2010 3:48 pm

Re: Quanzar

Postby Aethan » Thu Feb 17, 2022 1:34 pm

"There is no dialogue with elites who lie"
The Federal Secretary of Radiciale seeks to position herself in the midst of the imminent clash


Image

With tempers heating up by the moment, and with a train wreck in society that seems more inevitable with each passing day, Ginevra Nardozzi, during one of the many protests that continue to take place, has decided to attend to the media.

Mrs. Nardozzi affirms that her party is not going to go to any negotiating table with the government because, in her opinion, the latter "intends to whitewash its image, which has been seriously damaged, at the expense of honest and hard-working citizens who fight every day for their rights and who do not recognize or want to recognize this democratic outrage. It is clear that the government has lost the touch with the day-by-day people” has declared flanked by the recently liberated Chief of Firefighters of Alaria, now likely candidate for the Presidency of the island nation.

However, Mrs. Nardozzi has not skimped on words for either of the two sides that, in her opinion, are conforming to the Union and that, according to her, "cannot bring any good consequences."

"We are reaching a point where the government, through this 'Constituent Assembly', which should have been dissolved by now and given way to elections after approving ITS constitution and fulfilling its objective, is dedicating itself to moving forward taking advantage of an unstoppable parliamentary roller. Consequently, they cannot ask us, as honest and responsible citizens, to go to a negotiating table to calm things down while they go ahead implementing their plan without counting on anyone else. You cannot be at two things at the same time, and Radiciale will continue to support and be present at all the protests and refuse to negotiate anything as long as the government continues to pass laws."


Mrs. Nardozzi, however, has also accused some protesters of "mistargeting".

"How can we, as a society, allow what is happening? How can we confuse the primary objective of the protests? The people do not confront the people, the people confront the lying and manipulative elites.We can’t blame thr common people for being tricked by superior forces to follow them, we have to make them see it. Nobody wins when the peasant confronts the cashier, when the bricklayer fights with the professor. The objective is to show that the people are the sovereign and the representative of the nation, of this Union between Quanzar and Alaria, and that the objective is to defeat what they have tried to us from above impose: an Emperor, an untouchable and sovereign political power of all. This is not about pitting Quanzarians against Alarians, pitting people who identify themselves as "Istalians" against people who only recognize themselves as "Alarians". That is a debate for later, which can be held calmly, as has been done for decades in the Union that this Assembly has been responsible for destroying. They should not look for Radiciale in that confrontation because they will not find us there. Let them look for us to fight for the common people, for the free people, and for the sovereign people! "
She has concluded her statement amid cheers from those gathered in the protest.

Several political analysts see in the words of the federal secretary the clear intention of differentiating themselves from certain protests that have ended up acquiring an identity aspect that they did not have before, and the continuous appeal to the common people as a way to rise up as the true voice of the people of a nation dissatisfied with the imposition of a form of state that they neither recognize nor want to recognize.
In Marea - Civis Sinistram - Selucia Former
Left Bloc - Istalia
Bright Spring - Kirlawa

PT Wiki Admin
User avatar
Aethan
 
Posts: 1110
Joined: Wed Oct 05, 2016 7:59 am
Location: Somewhere in the Iberian Peninsula

Re: Quanzar

Postby XanderOne » Mon Feb 21, 2022 11:53 pm

A Blue Flame to contrast the Red Menace
Following the far-left uprising that is seizing the power in the country the old guard from IeU and the Istalian nationalists have come together to defend their ethnicity, their culture, their life style and their freedom
Image
The stage set up in Romula from which Michele Corlione spoke to the supporters of his new party

6 Marzo 5075

ROMULA - The chaos has now taken over the country following the uprising unleashed following the 5075 elections which saw all the competing parties more or less having an equitable share of the National Assembly where, however, the only not far-left party was the Party of Constituent Assembly of 5074, the name with which the party participated in the elections to claim the legality of what happened in recent years despite the criticisms received by the extremists opposing them, and which after meeting in Congress last week decided to take the name Blue Flame - Istalian Alliance (Fiamma Blu - Alleanza Istaliana), with the declared intent to continue to protect and safeguard the Istalian heritage and legacy and to counter what its leaders have already defined as "the red menace".

Today the country is in chaos, with the various forces of the far-left which, although they decided to abolish the Empire, seem somewhat disunited in the path that the country will have to take, not only from a political point of view but also from an economic, cultural and identity point of view.
Both the Emperor and Prime Minister Sarjani did not make any statements in the aftermath of the elections and indeed agreed to gather the Supreme Defense Council, the highest decision-making body in defense and security affairs of the country and which could soon be the last body of a true, democratic and liberal Istalian nation, as stated by exponent of the outgoing administration. With the Council in a virtually permanent meeting for almost two weeks now, there are few news and even indiscretions so far but what has been noticed was a febrile activity within the Ministries, the Defense Staffs as well as numerous state bodies, in first and foremost the main offices of the Intelligence, the Federal Police and the tax department.
Several trucks have been seen in the past days coming and going from all these government offices and some testimonies, although unconfirmed, scattered and some considered to be unreliable, reported of documentation moved away and/or collected together as well as computers and what that have been described as the cases of numerous servers. In fact, even the main sites of national institutions are currently unreachable and more than one voice in the press is now assuming that, if confirmed, it would be an operation aimed at making data and documentation of all kinds disappear. This would clearly create serious problems for any future administration of the country: just to give an example, from the point of view of the taxes, a possible disappearance of the tax bills would practically reset the fiscal and patrimonial situations of the citizens, probably preventing in the future collection of tax refering to the previous and past years by part of the authorities and therefore an important loss of resources, especially in the short and medium term, for any regime that should take power.

In fact, there is now open talks and fear of a socialist revolution underway in the country, which has generated a real collapse of the stock exchanges and financial markets in the country and the movements of considerable ammounts of money abroad, by part of the largest companies, entrepreneurs, business owners and of course the wealthiest citizens.
n the streets, in fact, supporters of the left forces are seen wandering around and although most are demonstrating peacefully, those who attract more the attention are the exponents of what has emerged as the most extremist political forces of the leftist majority, namely the "Insieme" party, whose teams of militants are driving among the streets inciting supporters to praise the socialist revolution and testimonies, althought unconfirmed at the moment, say that some have even been seen already armed and other raising barricades.
Insieme, despite the first more conciliatory proposals by the Istalian Communist Party, evidently aimed at re-establishing a social-democratic republic inspired by the Istalian republics of the past, proposed instead the formation of a Provisional Revolutionary Government and therefore presented his proposal for the formation of a Union of Quanzarian and Istalian Councils, what has been labelled as a form of socialist federal state organized around popular council, or soviet as derogatorily called by the opposition.

The newly elected leader of Blue Flame, Michele Corlione, leader of the Istalian nationalist and now at the helm of the new party, thus commented on the proposals made by Insieme showing unexpected openings for a dialogue with the Istalian Communist Party:

Do they believe they have managed to break our tenacity? Did they really believe we would vanish as easily as their predecessors did election lost after election lost? We will never, I said never lower our heads in the face of the claims of this extremist scum made up of traitors and "new strange foreigners"!

They have already presented their state proposal: a veritable soviet regime, a socialist nightmare that they want to materialize here in Istalia, the country that virtually alone, centuries ago, opposed the mega socialist state under whose yoke almost all of continental Majatra fell.
Just like that glorious country that was this dear land of ours, we too will not bend facing this red menace! We will continue to defend the freedom of our fellow citizens, whatever the cost!

And if they want to silence us, they will have to pick us up from our homes and drag us away by force! And I warn them: we are ready to receive them! Those wretched ones will find bread for their teeth! And unfortunately, fellow Istalians, I warn you, those traitors are ready to do it, I'm not telling you lies as those extremists only did! They lied about the illegality of the previous elections, and look at the last one: the numbers are not at all different and we can claim exactly the same allegation of irregularity and external influence, but we will not do this, because we have a conscience and we still retain our dignity. They lied and they are still lying today: look at the proposal for a new Constitution by part of Insieme! A beautiful sheet of paper that if approved, I warn you, will remain such, a mere piece of paper without value, no! Indeed, worse: many other socialist regimes on paper proclaimed great rights to their citizens and ample freedoms, this is known, but few they had written directly, black on white, that "certain rights and freedoms may be restricted having regard to the security of the State", the usual and infamous excuse of "state security". How many time we have heard these words pronunced by regimes while persecuting and suppressing the opposition? The next regime that could subjugate our country risks to have this principle enshrined into its fundamental law!

And they had the courage to define the new Imperial Constitution as undemocratic, a constitution that was not built on socialist conciliarism, which was not impregnated with a revolutionary and not at all democratic ideology like the one boasted by these terrorists! But it was a Constitution that will remain the last testimony of freedom, justice and democracy that this country will remember, a constitution that would have had as its corellary a Great Charter of Citizen's Rights and Duties with which the freedom of none of our citizens would have been put aside with the usual ideological and ridiculous excuses relating to the security of the state... the security of an oppressive and totalitarian state! They are already stripping many istalians of their properties and of their future and the one of their children! Very soon a state capitalist regime will be enforced in the country and millions of citizens, and first of all the workers of whom these extremists claim to be the liberators, will be the mass of little cogs of this new regime. And after that, no one of us fellow citizens will be anymore freedom to believe in whatever we want and indeed believing in a religion will make you undesirable and will give to the state the pretext to "teach you" you are wrong, like if the State should dictate us in what and if believe.

For this reason we launch an appeal to our fellow citizens of the Istalian Communist Party, the only ones who, faced with this chaos, are the only ones who have tried the path of compromise, always making credible and conciliatory proposals. It seems a contradiction to address the Communist Party but they are really the only ones who, like us, still have democracy in the country at heart, as per true Istalian tradition, the tradition of those exponent of that Istalian socialism and communism that never betrayed the way of true Democracy, like Salvatore Alletta, who gave his life for democracy, or Ernesto Revara or Paolo Tarso. I warn our fellow citizens of the PCI not to give in to the temptation to give a free hand to these extremists, since it will not only be a march towards totalitarianism, but also towards historical revisionism, the destruction and eradication of an identity and a national culture such as the Istalian one and its five millennia of history. If not, you and all these oppressors and these enemies of the Istalian people should be careful in believing they will make sweet dreams! We will resist until death and beyond, because we believe and support an ideal that, despite countless attempts, has always triumphed, and be sure that we will triumph again, for Istalia!


The new party thus shifted to more rigid ethnic and nationalistic positions compared to its predecessors and also about it and its supporters rumors are coming from all over the country about people seen by witness taking up rifles and gather in very heated rallies and reunions unleashing harsh words against the far-leftist and especially anti-istalian forces.
XanderOne
 
Posts: 765
Joined: Tue Apr 02, 2019 12:15 pm

PreviousNext

Return to National News

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 20 guests