KARUSO ELECTED PRESIDENT
Kigami, August 2823 - Nora Karuso is Indrala's new president. Karuso defeated incumbent president Sin-Chu Lee, who was aiming for a re-ekection. She won the presidential elections Karuso with 50,29% in the first round, so there was no need for a second voting round. With Karuso Indrala now have a female president after more then a century. Ona Menzies was the last woman to be elected president, in 2701. Karuso was already named new president long before the elections. She was very popular, especially among the low-class Indralans. She became the second president from the Nationalista Party, after Diosdado Hortal, who was president from 2808-2812 and 2816-2819.
Nora Karuso after her historical election victory
The parliamentary elections weren't very exciting: Karuso's party, the Nationalista Party, gained a slightly increase in seats. They've won 7 seats, giving them a total of 371 seats in the National Assembly. The LAN Party lost 34 seats. The Liberal Democrats, who had known huge losses in the recent years, have won 27 seats this round, but they remain the smallest party. So nothing much changed in the National Assembly.
The relatively peaceful manner by which Karuso assumed the presidency won her widespread international acclaim as an icon of democracy. She was selected as Indralan Daily's Woman of the Year in 2822. Karuso's comment and critisism on the Hortál presidency made her popular among the other party's. In her innaugural speech, she promised more jobs, less poverty and an immediate action against corruption, which still is very high in Indrala.