Baltusia

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Second Indecisive Election in a Row:
Reelection for Socialist President Hibbert
Neo-Conservatives become the Largest Party
Cabinet Formation Discussions Under Way
Likely Republican - Socialist Deal
Block Bloc Threatens Government Shutdown if they aren't in Cabinet
Revolutionary Anarcho-communist Party expelled from Left Bloc
Socialists Reject Block Bloc Proposals
Election Fails to resolve Hung-Congress

This election was called to bring stability to the country and allow the formation of a cabinet, however it has done anything but that.

The Presidential election results were quite interesting, in the first round the Neo-Conservative Party got the most votes, followed by the Secularist, Socialist Party of Baltusia. The latter of which won by 6% in the second round. It seems that what gave the socialists an advantage was their unity, as they were the only candidate with endorsements from any other party, the Socialists had fairly easy sailing through to the second round of voting. For a long while the left wing in Baltusia was seen as unorganised and ineffective but now they seem to be the only bloc in congress which is in any way organised.

This election was primarily called to fix the difficulties in forming a cabinet, however now that it has occurred a second time, congresspeople are beginning to accept that this may be the new reality for politics in Baltusia. It is likely that the socialist alliance will seek to form an agreement with the Working Class Party and the Republican Party.

It was a good election for the Socialist Alliance, while they didn't get an outright majority, they managed to retain the Presidency and with their newest member in the Revolutionary Anarcho-communist Party, they have become the largest bloc in Congress. This combined with their holding the Presidency means that they will almost certainly all be in the cabinet, if one can be agreed.

The right wing in Baltusia seems to be hopelessly divided, for a while it seemed to be that that description could have been applied to the left (with two rival left-wing alliances). However with the state of the right in Baltusia that would not be fair. Every single right wing party ran their own candidate for President, which led to only one getting through to the second round of voting (the Neo-Conservative party). What is advertised as the right-wing alliance in Baltusia, the Capitalist Alliance, is in an extremely uncertain state. No party except for the Materialist Party is technically a full member however no party has been blocked from joining and thus if the Republicans and the Materialists are in any sort of a formal alliance is thrown into question. As can be implied above they did not run a joint presidential candidate.

The real losers in this election were undoubtedly the Left Wing Workers Party, they expelled the Revolutionary Anarcho-communist Party because: "The left party bloc doesn't tolerate fence sitters and grandstanders that flop to the current side with the most power. " This followed their endorsement of the Secularist, Socialist Party of Baltusia for the President however they said that that specific issue was not the reason. This makes the Left Bloc a single-party alliance and the smallest bloc of parties and smaller than every party not affiliated with an alliance. While they are likely to be involved in any cabinet arrangement, given that they are the most centrist of the left-wing parties who alone don't have a majority, they have little hope of doing well in Presidential elections in the future. It is likely that their short term fate will be as a centrist third party who will have a position in government for as long as the indecisive election results last.

It was a good election result for the Neo-Conservative party, who have become the largest party in Congress by some 56 seats. Immediately after the election result the Block Bloc proposed a cabinet coalition between them, the SSPB, the Republicans, and the Neocons. They threatened government shutdown if Congress refused to pass it, however they seem to not have necessary seats to do so. The SSPB have voted no to it so it will not pass.

[matthewleitch]

Republicans oust Trudeau after VoNC - Webster to take them in a new direction

The Baltusian Republican Party have ousted their leader Andrew Trudeau, calling members calling a Vote of No Confidence. Before the Vote of No Confidence was even voted upon, Trudeau handed in his resignation.

It is clear that the Republicans will not stand for anything less than excellence at election time and the candidate that was supposed to revitalised the party has failed, decreasing his party's number of seats at the 4072 elections. Furthermore, his bid for President has been quashed, ex-Leader Brian Burgmuller resigned after taking a mere 17% of the First Round Vote in 4070, but Trudeau has saw the party at an all-time-low with a major drop to 13% in 4072.

Jacob Mogg-Rees was expected to contest a leadership contest, however he has thrown his weight behind Dr. Samatha Webster, the only candidate who has emerged.

Dr. Samantha Webster is a centre-right professor of History at Villita University and member of the 'Free minds, Free market' think-tank. She has never contested a congressional or gubernatorial election, however, has acted as a diplomat and has assisted Baltusian Ambassador to the General Assembly of the World Congress, Ruby DeGraz, several times. A long-time Republican, joining the party aged 18 - she says the party needs a 'major revitalisation coming into the next election'.

As no other candidate emerged before the candidacy announcement deadline - Dr. Webster automatically has become the leader.

As Baltusian politics could not be in a more hostile and unprecedented state, will Dr. Webster restore the Republicans former glory?

[matthewleitch]

Republicans rebrand! - Forward

New Republican Leader, Dr. Samantha Webster has made the decision, with the backing of 100% of her party to rebrand the party to: Forward.

Dr. Webster said at the launch of the new party brand:

The Republican name was excellent for a very long time, it represented exactly what we stood for. But the name is no longer what it used to be, and Baltusia has been cemented as a Republic. It is clear that our old-school message just wasn't resonating with voters anymore.

Therefore, we need to move forward. And move forward into government and into a Presidential Election victory is exactly what we shall stand for.

A new party, based upon the values of liberty, democracy, free-trade and free-minds - Forward will revitalise Baltusian politics. Our pro-Seleyan, globalist message will hopefully resonate with a vast proportion of voters, disillusioned by the extreme right and extreme left on display currently.

Baltusia can go forward, and we will go - Forward

The new party logo

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SSPB Congressional Leadership Election

Following the Diagnosis of SSPB Leader Penny Sargent with Terminal Cancer, she has stood down as leader.

Five candidates have contested the election.

Jill Stone - A far left working class woman from Aliband.

Richard Leonardo - A SSPB Congressman for thirty years, endorsed by President Hibbert, he is a more isolationist candidate who is seen as very divisive among the moderate and globalist wing of the party.

Flossie Hambleton - Currently Secretary of State for Finance, Madame Hambleton is liked by much of the party but seen as somewhat of a uninteresting candidate, running more on platitudes than policies.

Prof. Fenton Hatheway - The Secretary of State for Science and Technology is the candidate from the 'moderate' wing of the party.

Petunia Evelyn - The furthest left candidate running, Madame Evelyn is anti-globalisation and anti-capitalism.

Round 1

Prof. Fenton Hatheway - 416,329 votes

Richard Leonardo - 348,816 votes

Petunia Evelyn - 213,790 votes

Flossie Hambleton - 78,765 votes

Jill Stone - 67,513 votes ELIMINATED


Round 2

Prof. Fenton Hatheway - 427,581 votes

Richard Leonardo - 382,572 votes

Petunia Evelyn - 225,043 votes

Flossie Hambleton - 90,017 votes ELIMINATED


Round 3

Prof. Fenton Hatheway - 438,833 votes

Richard Leonardo - 427,581 votes

Petunia Evelyn - 258,799 votes ELIMINATED


Round 4

Richard Leonardo - 618,867 votes WINNER

Prof. Fenton Hatheway - 506,346 votes


The party leadership have mutually agreed that in the new cabinet Mr Leonardo will replace Madame Hambleton.

[Darkylightytwo]

The PLCA with drama, vampires are backs.

Baltusia seem to be due for chaos.
the Pro-life communists coalition have return to the political field and presented themselves as a left-wing wing alternative to a right-wing union composed by parties like Foward! and the RAC.

but the main event of the day, was the that a hopital known to provide Abortions Rococielo general hospital blood's reserve were stolen, and a strange paper was found in front of the empty reserve. it read : Killers have no right to stock life in their own hands. The vampires.

[Darkylightytwo]

Necogiation Broke Down, ministers will not be named.

Any attempt of negociation between Foward! and the PLCA are officially dead.

We tried to discuss the issues with them, and they suddenly ask us to stop being communist and to drop our nationalisation agenda as well as democratisation of the businesses, without giving us anything in return, and they even criticized us our names, saying communists are terrible killers and dictators. It was insulting. they directly said to us that they can't ally themselves with communist, because all communist are killers and only want to instaure a dictatorship, its misinformation and prejudice. we are concerned citizen who support democracy and any attempt of passing laws restricting freedom will die with us. We think they are trying to make the same offer to the socialist and we ask them to refuse. Also, this is a bad way to call for a negociation, when you offer nothing to the others parties.

Its not that important, we got the majority we need to present important reform to the parliament and we are going to pass them, these are reform that were present in the previous legislation by the others parties, but failed and now they are finally going to pass.

Personnally, I am not a fan of the attitude of Foward!, who seemed to based their politics on names and put all leftwing parties in the same boat...

it is also sad that we not able to present a government, nor able to remplace minister who left, but this is life. it is not always fair.

Audrey-Sophie Green

[Darkylightytwo]

Vampires are back at business, humiliation of bank president

On 1st June 4281, the president of a Baltusia bank Julian Hillen, was found drenched in blood and tied down agaisnt the entrance of the banks, preventing any one from entering. it took the police two hours to free him and allow the bank to be open to be the public. A note was found on him.

This is Julian Hillen, a someone who vampirise the nation to fill his personnal greed, a man who hate you, a man who loves to get baltusians out of their home just to sell it to a speculators, a man who speculate on basic necessity farms,
only to make more and more money. This is man is a true financial vampire. We have revealed his true nature. the Vampires.

analysis show the blood we found on Mr Hillen is the same that was stolen at Terrarokka, this it confirm the vampires are responsable for the incident. Mr Hillen as refused to comment the incident. expect for calling himself a victim of terrorism.

I have no comment, theses guys are terrorists, not me. I am just a humble citizen.

[Darkylightytwo]

Vampires and PLCA celebrates electoral victory forthe Left-wing.

The presidential election where close, but the legislative election where once again in the favor of the PLCA, since the materialist have disolved, Forward! become the primary opponent of the PLCA.

During the election, the PLCA made several promesses,

the first was promesse to oversee democratisation of the nationalised entreprise, saying workers will have a get a words in all decisions that will taken by the nationalised entreprises, and that they would be get the vote each years for their bosses.

We will oversee the development of democracy in all businesses we have nationalised, this is the 2nd and last step of the transformation of Baltusia economy, workers will get a word in every decision taken by their entreprises. they will be able to elect their bosses, they will able to decide on the salary of each employee, everyone will know what everyone gain, so if someone does not work or a bad worker, he'll received judgement, not from the direction, but from his coworkers. We believe this will create a very strong economy.
Audrey-Sophie Green, PLCA parlementary Co-leader

the second was to outlaw Abortion, except in the case of medical emergencies.

We will work to reform the abortion of Baltusia, we will grant funding for any legal abortion demand, but only abortion for medical emergencies will be allowed, we believe this law is fair, since it will apply to everyone. Also, we have said, we believe there is no reason for a woman to have abortion in these times, our medical advancee and our scientific development should allow us to find alternative. So we'll have no reason to keep killing unborn child. We are pro-life and we are going to defend life.
Laskia Green, PLCA parlementary Co-Leader.

The PLCA presidential candidate, Aloy Green, won the presidential election with 22,719,212 votes, agaisnt 22,341,157 votes for Samantha Webster of Forward!, backed by the Block bloc, in the first round, Harvey Clarkson received 14,044,496 votes. This make it an interessing election, as both candidate to the post of president were women, although they had very different ideas and life perpectives

As For the legislative elections
the PLCA gained 180 seats, losing 2 seat one of which was the seat of Kyles Liles
Foward has gained 143 Seats
the Block Bloc has gained 93 seats
the RAC has gained 84 seats
the LPSB has gained 59 seats
and the SSPBhas gained 41 seats

experts believe the PLCA will ally themselves with the socialist bloc, since the relations between Forward! and the PLCA are not very good, Aloy Green, the new president, has confirmed her intention to ally herself with the socialist bloc.

My current intention are to create a left-wing coalition with the socialist bloc. I,ll try to stay open to the demands of Forward! since they are the second largest party and it would better for Baltusia if the two largest party were to negociate an alliance, but I don't believe this is possible.

and we'll organise the nationalisations, we approved in the last. In fact, we will create new entreprises, in defence, healthcare, education, finance and others markets. We believe that the socialist bloc is more likely to cooperate with us on this, then Forward!

Aloy Green, president of Baltusia

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Meanwhile members of the vampires were found celebrating in the cities of terrarokka, the victory of the PLCA.

This is a victory for justice and a victory for us, now we'll recognize as vigilantes from a high institution, we can only police officer will do the same and we will finally be able to cooperate with the pôlice to crack down on crime, we are tired to work in the shadows, to make spectacular move just to prove our ideology, what we need to do, is to catch criminel and to prove their deeds, but we can't that if we are branded as terrorists.


Anonymous member of the vampires.

[Darkylightytwo]

PLCA shocked over Istalian News

A few days ago, the government of Baltusia has learned that the government of Istalia, one of their allies, has decided to let a minister of justice fight agaisnt by poisonning the meals and the food serve at the marriage of diverse members of the istalian mafia. Many of those cause a high number of civilians death. Also, people who learn about the scandal would end up being locked away for no reason. The President of Baltusia said this was a uncivilised way to deal with mafias.

I am shocked, I though Istalia where our allies, that they have become a fine democracy, but here learn that their justice is nothing more then government sanctionned murder, as well as abuse of power.
There is no word for to describe how I feel about theses actions. I demand explaination and acts from the parties and from the government of Istalia, we'll profit from that time, to ask about a number of Baltusians, 7 in fact, who have disappeared after going to Istalia, but never made it back to home. 2 of them were journalists investagating mafia related crimes and drugs situation.
We need to know what happen to our citizen, if they are still alive and bring them back home.

Aloy Green President of Baltusia

[Darkylightytwo]

Girls found dead in Rococielo

Multiples girls, aged from 21 to 32, were found dead in the street of Rococielo, they appear to have committed suicide.
the police is currently investigating on the matter and has refused to make any comments on the event.

for now the only thing we can say, is that these girls have committed suicide, we have no further information and we will deliver them as the investigation progress.

said Lucianna Topez, Sheriff of Rococielo.

Are vampires terrorists, the question is back
The vampires have announced the death of a doctor who was operating in the general hospital of Rococielo, Dr Giles Hall

Dr Giles Hall, which everyone should know as the abortion lover, was killed by us, the vampires.
we have concluded that the garbage know as GIles Hall, was not worthy of life.
He would fake the results of Prenatal diagnosis, in order to encourage girls to have abortion, this guy is also responsable of the multiples suicides in the city, as if he would not have insulted theses girls, they would never have chosen to kill themselves. thus we found that the garbade known as Giles Hall was beyond any attempt of redemption and we have decided to end his curse. Famillies can rejoice, the garbage known as Giles Hall will longer threaten your kids.
We have already donated his blood and his organs to the hospital, though the garbage known as Giles Hall was corrupt, his organs can still be used to save lifes.

From the vampires.