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The People's Journal mainly reports on national and global political news, and occasionally entertainment.
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21st June 4794
The Fall of Maximus Robertson; the new Fladborgian President of the National Convention invites the military to restore orderAs the Nybergian terror was at its peak, the Fladborgian members of the National Convention successfully - through bribes and threats - deposed President of the National Convention Max Robertson. The new Fladborgian President invites the military to restore order. Which results in the return of Isabella Cederstam to the presidency.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Soldiers of the Davostani Defense Forces restoring order in Metallikberg.This weeks meeting at the National Convention resulted in the Fladborgians and dissatisfied Nybergians removing President Max Robertson from office. Ever since his ascension to the office almost one year ago, Robertson had begun a reign of terror with anyone displaying any public anti-revolutionary thoughts being harassed and sent to the guillotine. This has resulted in an estimated 7,000 deaths by the work of the guillotine only, while the total number of deaths of the Revolution is at an estimated 9,000 people. With Robertson becoming increasingly authoritarian and paranoid, he began pointing out "
traitors to the revolution" within the National Convention and many from the Nybergian Club itself, something that has affected the political faction to the core. This led to representatives of all factions within the National Convention meeting in secret to plan an overthrow of the now known "
Dictator" Robertson. As the President was going through a list of new traitors within the Convention, the leader of the Fladborgian, called Thorbjörn Ohlsson, spoke up against the President (which was the sign for starting the coup), President Robertson laughed at him asking Ohlsson if he had gone mad for "
going against the virtues Revolution". The Fladborgian leader responded with "
No it is you who have gone mad", which caused the majority of the Convention to rise up and started loudly to agree with the Ohlsson and instead motioned the execution of President Max Robertson instead. This made Robertson go completely pale and froze up, seconds later he was dragged out by guards loyal to the National Convention.
Immediately after the arrest of President Robertson, the National Convention made Ohlsson the new President. He quickly invited the military to restore order around the country, mostly by arresting radical Nybergians and the most extreme of revolutionaries. The President also invited former President of the National Convention Isabella Cederstam to return to the capital and resume the office of President of the National Convention and to lead the Government. Both the military under Supreme Commander Wilhelm Leitz and former President Isabella Cedrerstam accepted Ohlsson's offer, with the latter being hesitant at first. Cederstam reassumed the office of the President of the National Convention on the 18th June 4794. The first thing she did was to hold a speech to the nation in which she promised "
absolute national unity" and "to respect the values of the Revolution" BUT that any more violence would not be tolerated and would be punished with a harsh imprisonment. Cederstam also abolished the use of the guillotine as a method of execution on the 20th June 4794, with Max Robertson being the last person of the Revolution to be executed by it on that same day.
Who were Maximus "Max" Robertson? A Davostani-Kivonian born in the city of Nyberg, studied at a young age political science and law. He eventually became a lawyer working for the city judge. He became active in politics during the occupation period and joined the only political club active in the nation, the Fladborgian Club, he together with a few others formed the Fladborgians sisters club in the city of Nyberg, known as the Nybergian Club. He became one of its lead speakers and made both the Nybergians and Fladborgians nation-wide known after the failed revolt against the occupiers he led with the other members in Nyberg, a revolt which their Club dubbed the 'Nybergian Revolution'. He was elected into the National Convention in November 4790. Robertson was an outspoken radical and pushed for the people of Davostan to revolt against the-then President of the National Convention Georg Nyberg which they did and as a consequence the so-called 'Davostani Revolution' or also commonly known the "
Union Revolution" took place. In 4792 he became part of the Cederstam Cabinet I as the Minister of Internal Affairs after the arrest of Lundell was carried out by revolutionaries, a few months later it said he forced Cederstam to resign as President of the National Convention and through threats against the other members of the Convention he was made the new President. His cabinet being full Nybergian began a "
reign of terror" when they executed Georg Lundell by guillotine. Robertson's ideology and goal as explained by himself was to create a "
Virtues Republic built on the Ideals and Principles of Unity and Liberty in a Directorial System of Governance".
After interviewing many people around the country, it has been made clear that the people are tired of the constant fighting, even if it's a war or a revolution and that they just want peace as a "normal" society like most nations around Terra. The new Government has heard these cries from the citizens and begun taking the Constitutional Convention - which was established by former President Georg Lundell - more seriously and have put as the number one priority of the National Convention. The system of government most preferred within both the National Convention and around the nation has become a "
Federal Union" between the Davostani and Kivonian peoples, an estimated 87% of the citizens wants such a system. Political analysts have explained the popularity of this system to be a direct consequence of the Revolution, which was waged for such a system. The National Convention and the Cederstam Government has looked into the best way to establish it and begun writing templates for a "
Union Constitution".