Re: Chronicles of Mordusia
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 12:10 am
June 4379
Jean-de-Dieu riots as Hewson sweeps Presidential election
The largely Canrillaise city of Jean-de-Dieu experienced a night of violence yesterday evening after the news broke that Gregory Hewson had narrowly won the Presidential election. Hewson is a controversial and divisive figure in Mordusian politics, who has a history of anti-Canrillaise and other anti-minority comments and behaviour.
Social media has been flooded with messages and photographs alleging brutality and general heavy-handedness on the part of the police. Complaints are also emerging that the city's police force has an anti-Canrillaise bias and that Canrillaise officers are severely under-represented in the most senior positions.
Liberal Union leader Henri Bachelot called Hewson's election "a national embarrassment and a calamity", but insisted "Terra has got to know that this man does not represent who we are and what we are about as a country". He also urged Mordusia's political leaders "to work together to ensure the extremists are kept out of government in the new parliamentary session".
Liberal MP calls for monarchy debate
In the aftermath of controversial Mordusia First leader Gregory Hewson's election as President and the death of Empress Sarah IV, newly-elected Liberal MP Josephine Braithwaite has called "for a real national debate looking at the options in terms of restoring a constitutional monarchy in Mordusia, in some shape or form". She also expressed her "personal opinion" that Empress Sarah IV's successor, Alexander, "could be just the very person we need". She warned that "electing our symbolic Head of State by popular vote will always risk disasters like Hewson" and that "constitutional monarchy is much more stable".
As a royalist, Braithwaite is in a minority in her party, which is generally staunchly republican.
Jean-de-Dieu riots as Hewson sweeps Presidential election
The largely Canrillaise city of Jean-de-Dieu experienced a night of violence yesterday evening after the news broke that Gregory Hewson had narrowly won the Presidential election. Hewson is a controversial and divisive figure in Mordusian politics, who has a history of anti-Canrillaise and other anti-minority comments and behaviour.
Social media has been flooded with messages and photographs alleging brutality and general heavy-handedness on the part of the police. Complaints are also emerging that the city's police force has an anti-Canrillaise bias and that Canrillaise officers are severely under-represented in the most senior positions.
Liberal Union leader Henri Bachelot called Hewson's election "a national embarrassment and a calamity", but insisted "Terra has got to know that this man does not represent who we are and what we are about as a country". He also urged Mordusia's political leaders "to work together to ensure the extremists are kept out of government in the new parliamentary session".
Liberal MP calls for monarchy debate
In the aftermath of controversial Mordusia First leader Gregory Hewson's election as President and the death of Empress Sarah IV, newly-elected Liberal MP Josephine Braithwaite has called "for a real national debate looking at the options in terms of restoring a constitutional monarchy in Mordusia, in some shape or form". She also expressed her "personal opinion" that Empress Sarah IV's successor, Alexander, "could be just the very person we need". She warned that "electing our symbolic Head of State by popular vote will always risk disasters like Hewson" and that "constitutional monarchy is much more stable".
As a royalist, Braithwaite is in a minority in her party, which is generally staunchly republican.