LE DRAPEAU ROUGEMay 4915, 1st EditionKing abdicates, new constitution issuedIt was an event many months in the making, and millions of Aldurians were holding their breath as they turned on their television sets and watched King Alexandre I de La Couronne walk up to the dais where he would, after 7 years, abdicate the throne. As he signed the document, Maxime Flandin, who up to that point was still legally His Majesty's Principal Minister, signed the new constitution into power - a constitution which immediately stripped all nobility of both titles and power and transformed the nation into a syndicalist republic.
Now a citizen, equal to the rest of Alduria's people, Alexandre de La Couronne slowly walked out of the former Estates General, now the General Labor Council, and into a new life of obscurity.
The new constitution is a masterpiece of political thought, and the culmination of syndicalist and Flandinist thought. While the constitution has already legally been applied to the nation by virtue of the now-defunct Estates General passing it with overwhelming margin, it will also be put up for popular vote alongside the first syndical elections - which are to be organized in two months time - and is expected to be approved by the population with overwhelming support.
The Comité de Salut Public has completed its transition from political organization to governing body of the new Union Communale d'Aldurie and has become detached from the political organization it sprang from, which has promptly rebranded itself as the Confédération des Travailleurs, a cooperation between those elected to the Bourse Générale du Travail who seek to preserve the syndicalist economy and political system that has been many years in the making.
Maxime Flandin, now holding the highest executive position in the land as Président du Comité de Salut Public, ended the ceremony with a speech commorating those who had lost their lives in the pursuit of equality and liberty, and vowed to defend the revolution until his dying breath.
Prolétaires de tous les pays, unissez-vous!
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