New Person Thrown into LFA Leadership; LFA Sees Bad Election Outcome
Kien, Hulstria -- Just weeks before the September elections, the LFA quickly and quietly threw in a new Chairman, and Vice Chairperson too. The move was extremely private and left voters wondering when they arrived at the polls in September. Instead of seeing Albert von Metzler as a choice for Governor-General from the LFA, there was a mysterious largely unknown name, David Clarke. Clarke, by Metzler supporters, has been referred to has a quick choice put in solely for the purpose of pleasing the other party's of Hulstria further.
The new Chairman was a Diet Member elected from Kuratha and is one of the few true LFA supporters of giving in to the political censorship being practiced by the ruling coalition. Liberal Fascist Justice Adviser Dagmar Stettin stated, "For the past year the other parties of Hulstria have focused on trying to change our party's beliefs instead of focusing on Hulstria. The job of the political party's are to advance Hulstria, not try to change all the other party's to beliefs they like instead of dislike. We stated long ago that the certain beliefs they were addressing weren't even possible in Greater Hulstria, but those comments were obviously ignored and they went on to promote bureaucracy and causing a simple coalition proposal to take over a year."
Stettin continued on to mention the new Chairman, "Our apparent new Chairman is David Clarke, and quite frankly not even I have heard that much of him. His election to the position was more of an appointment and against party regulations since the twelve party advisers and the five crownland party leaders didn't even get to vote him in. From what I've heard it was a sort of party-coup arranged by conformists in the party who blackmailed the soon to retire Albert von Metzler. Luckily, especially based on the recent election results, Clarke's chairmanship won't be long."
In the elections, the LFA lost over two dozen seats and David Clarke received under a quarter of the vote in the First Round and his endorsement of the KHP candidate proved worthless, leading to yet more CLA leadership in Kien.
In some brighter news, Chairman von Metzler shortly before his lose of his position, put forth the first major LFA bill in the Diet which has gone to vote this month after much debate over the Mormon-majority Independent City of Moroni. The bill, which is likely to pass, will bring Moroni back into Greater Hulstria and require the Governor-General to issue an apology for the actions of the Hulstrian Nationalist Party in the 2440s when Mormons were deported and stripped of citizenship from the Dual Monarchy of Hulstria/Gishoto.