Cabinet formed
Lodamun Labour Party, Progressive Socialist Party and the Secular Humanist Party reach an agreement
20 April 4423 - Port Golavia Lodamun recieved a new cabinet, the cabinet formed by a coalition of the LLP, PSP and SHP, recieved approval by the Presidium yesterday. After several months of negotiation the parties reached a agreement and backing of the majority of the Presidium. For the past 4 years the LLP and PSP formed a coalition, after the election the PSP and LLP just fell short of the 300 seats needed to get a majority. The two parties invited the new Secular Humanist Party to join the coalition. The coalition will work on modernizing and expanding the military of Lodamun and want to raise the age of adulthood to 18 in Lodamun. Cathy Durand, the party leader of the LLP will not take a seat in the cabinet and remain in the benches of the Presidium: "Our presidential candidate, Kate Cohen, lost the election to James Montague of the Liberals, in Lodamun the President also chairs the cabinet meetings and is Head of Government. For this reason I think my place would be in the Presidium leading the LLP." Our political correspondent, Charles Terran had this to say on the newly formed coalition: "Even though the parties managed to get an agreement, that doesn't mean the comming years will be easy. The SHP has been rewarded with Health and Social Services and Education and Culture, powerful ministries with the two largest budgets of all the departments and important issues and intrests. The PSP and LLP are taking some sort of a risk putting the new kid on the block on those departments. The SHP ministers will really need to prove themselves. Also the Head of Government can cause tension. The Liberal Progressives and Lodamun Labour Party/Progressive Socialist Party are bitter rivals. With the Liberals calling the Progressive Socialists the lapdogs of the LLP and putting up fierce opposition to LLP/PSP policy and the LLP accusing the Liberals of malicious privatization lust, the chance that there will be a friendly relationship between the Head of Government and the cabinet is very small."