Re: Kalopia
Posted: Mon Apr 15, 2024 9:37 am
Kalopian Dawn
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November 5469
President of Kalopia won't run for reelection
The imminent return of Pericles al-Shakir as Prime Minister of Kalopia has prompted the decision; "the crisis is finished"
Current President of Kalopia Glykeria Christodoulopoulou presenting her succesor as candidate for FYDEM, Meropi Tavoulariadi
She has won every Presidential election she has stood in as candidate, albeit each time with less support. And now that the opposition parties have agreed on a coalition cabinet headed by Pericles al-Shakir - making his return as head of Government - to put an end to the coalition government between Enosi Kentrou and the far-right ETHNOS, she believes her time "has come".
Glykeria Christodoulopoulou was first elected President of Kalopia during the 5461 Kalopian elections, gaining 62% of the vote and avoiding a trifecta of ETHNOS, who managed to reach a whooping majority in the Kalopian parliament. Since then, she has won four more reelection, but in each of them she has lose votes - 55%, 52%, 51.5% and 51% - and the ETHNOS candidate, the perennial Giorgos Kanellopoulos, has been winning more ground. This is one of the reasons Mrs. Christodoulopoulou has cited as being behind her reasoning to take a step aside and let another person stand up as candidate for FYDEM for the next elections, to be held in 5471.
The truth is that, despite having stood as candidate for FYDEM during five elections, not even 10 years have passed since she was first elected. That is because of the political turmoil of the recent years, with the apparition of the far-right party ETHNOS, which reached a coalition government with Enosi Kentrou - until then coalition partners of FYDEM and Pericles al-Shakir - and the implementation of a series of political reforms deemed "unconstitutional" by many academics and scholars. This, together with the dissolution of Enosi Kentrou and its integration in the ranks of ETHNOS, leaving the coalition government in minority in the Kalopian parliament, prompted Mrs. Christodoulopoulou to declare the government as "unconstitutional" and "in rebellion", and promised not to ratify any law presented by them as they did not hold enough majority in Parliament.
Now, after the 5468 elections, a coalition government between FYDEM, New Kalopia and Unsubmissive Left has been proposed as a "national salvation government", and will elect Pericles al-Shakir as new Head of Government next week. With this act, Mrs. Christodoulopoulou believes that she can retire from the first line of politics and let the new government amend the many issues the ETHNOS-Enosi Kentrou government managed to change. However, many believe that this movement is not a final farewell, and that she will probably join a new government as Minister in a close time, since she is still widely among the most valued current Kalopian politicians nationwide.
Yesterday, the party ranks elected Meropi Tavoulariadi as her successor and new FYDEM candidate for the position of President of Kalopia. The militants have no say in the election of the FYDEM candidate for the Head of State, as this is chosen solely by the party executive, and Mrs. Tavoulariadi is well-known among them. She was proposed precisely by the outgoing President, as she was one of her closest allies during the troublesome times with ETHNOS. Deemed a "left-wing conservative", some people inside FYDEM are not sure about the choice to replace a widely popular President by a relatively unknown candidate, and they would prefer Mrs. Christodulopoulou to contest the next elections until she is defeated by the public vote. However, other argue that this would mean at least a 3-year period of a probable ETHNOS President, and that should be avoided at all costs.
It is just a bit more than a year until the next Kalopian elections, and then we will see if FYDEM movement was a wise one or a total wrong choice.
Your source of fresh Kalopian news
November 5469
President of Kalopia won't run for reelection
The imminent return of Pericles al-Shakir as Prime Minister of Kalopia has prompted the decision; "the crisis is finished"
Current President of Kalopia Glykeria Christodoulopoulou presenting her succesor as candidate for FYDEM, Meropi Tavoulariadi
She has won every Presidential election she has stood in as candidate, albeit each time with less support. And now that the opposition parties have agreed on a coalition cabinet headed by Pericles al-Shakir - making his return as head of Government - to put an end to the coalition government between Enosi Kentrou and the far-right ETHNOS, she believes her time "has come".
Glykeria Christodoulopoulou was first elected President of Kalopia during the 5461 Kalopian elections, gaining 62% of the vote and avoiding a trifecta of ETHNOS, who managed to reach a whooping majority in the Kalopian parliament. Since then, she has won four more reelection, but in each of them she has lose votes - 55%, 52%, 51.5% and 51% - and the ETHNOS candidate, the perennial Giorgos Kanellopoulos, has been winning more ground. This is one of the reasons Mrs. Christodoulopoulou has cited as being behind her reasoning to take a step aside and let another person stand up as candidate for FYDEM for the next elections, to be held in 5471.
The truth is that, despite having stood as candidate for FYDEM during five elections, not even 10 years have passed since she was first elected. That is because of the political turmoil of the recent years, with the apparition of the far-right party ETHNOS, which reached a coalition government with Enosi Kentrou - until then coalition partners of FYDEM and Pericles al-Shakir - and the implementation of a series of political reforms deemed "unconstitutional" by many academics and scholars. This, together with the dissolution of Enosi Kentrou and its integration in the ranks of ETHNOS, leaving the coalition government in minority in the Kalopian parliament, prompted Mrs. Christodoulopoulou to declare the government as "unconstitutional" and "in rebellion", and promised not to ratify any law presented by them as they did not hold enough majority in Parliament.
Now, after the 5468 elections, a coalition government between FYDEM, New Kalopia and Unsubmissive Left has been proposed as a "national salvation government", and will elect Pericles al-Shakir as new Head of Government next week. With this act, Mrs. Christodoulopoulou believes that she can retire from the first line of politics and let the new government amend the many issues the ETHNOS-Enosi Kentrou government managed to change. However, many believe that this movement is not a final farewell, and that she will probably join a new government as Minister in a close time, since she is still widely among the most valued current Kalopian politicians nationwide.
Yesterday, the party ranks elected Meropi Tavoulariadi as her successor and new FYDEM candidate for the position of President of Kalopia. The militants have no say in the election of the FYDEM candidate for the Head of State, as this is chosen solely by the party executive, and Mrs. Tavoulariadi is well-known among them. She was proposed precisely by the outgoing President, as she was one of her closest allies during the troublesome times with ETHNOS. Deemed a "left-wing conservative", some people inside FYDEM are not sure about the choice to replace a widely popular President by a relatively unknown candidate, and they would prefer Mrs. Christodulopoulou to contest the next elections until she is defeated by the public vote. However, other argue that this would mean at least a 3-year period of a probable ETHNOS President, and that should be avoided at all costs.
It is just a bit more than a year until the next Kalopian elections, and then we will see if FYDEM movement was a wise one or a total wrong choice.