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Postby Arapaima13 » Sun Jun 04, 2017 12:55 pm

Location for all the News about the former Colony - Liore. The Liore News Service (LNS) provides articles from a wide variety of News Organisations within Liore, from all sides of the political spectrum. Below are the organisations that are given coverage by the LNS:

Liore Broadcasting Company (LBC)
Non-profit Broadcasting agency that receives subsidies from the government. Neutral, but does lean slightly towards the government's stance.

Liori Telegraph
Main centre-right newspaper. Displays news neutrally regarding economics but does tend to support Liori politicians over Kunikatan ones.

Tainá (The Star)
Centre-left newspaper. Respected, but known to post biased left-wing news. Written in Liori.

ディスパッチ (The Dispatch)
Far-left newspaper, that often criticises the government. Advocates many populist ideas, which it writes in Kunikatan.

Tabare (The Independent)
Right-wing, pro-Liori newspaper. Advocates mainly for the removal of all Kunikatan culture, and make it compulsory to be Liori to run for office.


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Re: Liore News Service

Postby Arapaima13 » Thu Oct 26, 2017 9:19 pm

Liore Broadcasting Company (LBC)
Far-Right Liori Nationalists seize power in the House

- Conservative Plata Yvyguy voted President
- Coalition expected to see Nationalist Leader Tumé Tekove become leader of the House
- Left Wing party in House of Representatives for the first time in 50 years


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The Results of the House Election:
Liori Nationalist Party: 57 Seats
Communist Party - 40 Seats
Conservative Party - 30 Seats
Prosperity Party - 15 Seats
Kunikata Green Party - 8 Seats


The normally stable two-party political system in Liore has collapsed as the Prosperity Party and the Conservative Party lost heavily to extremist parties in the House of Representatives elections. Despite Plata Yvyguy of the Conservative Party comfortably winning the Presidency against the Liori Nationalist candidate, Marangatu Tupa Ñembo'agueravyju, in consequence to the unprecedented move of the Prosperity Party to endorse their traditional rivals in the second round. The introduction of the Kunikata Green Party, and the major success of the Communist Party also saw a properly left wing party win a seat within the House since the Prosperity Party abandoned its far-left platform fifty years ago.

The Liori Nationalist Party, which openly supports the genocide of all Kunikati and Midway people within Liore, looks set to have its leader be granted the position of Leader of the House by the President in a shaky coalition between the two more nationalistic parties. Whilst the Conservatives will doubtless disagree with the radical populist agenda of their likely make-shift allies, it appears they would be more open to the LNP than siding with the communists, though nothing has been confirmed as of yet.

Human Rights activists have already sounded the alarm of these results. The LNP fester support off the hatred of former colonialists the Sekowans, as well as the prehistoric feud with the Midway peoples. With almost 20% of the population consisting of Kunikatan people, and a further 4% of Midway people, were the LNP to get their way, over 2.5 million people could be in danger from thallerist-esc genocidal action.
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Re: Liore News Service

Postby jamescfm » Tue Nov 20, 2018 2:03 am

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President Resigns Under Popular Pressure
Bureaucratic chief replaces under-fire leader and begins widespread reforms aimed at restoring public confidence

Wednesday 29th October, 4487
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Following weeks of large-scale protests across the country, París Sumancho has announced his resignation as President of the Republic. Sumancho has been under pressure to resign for months following economic and political turmoil but this week it became particularly intense, with around 1 in 40 citizens estimated to have attended simultaneous marches in Naranpá and the capital Yamabiro. With Sumancho officially leaving office on Friday, questions were raised over who would replace him as leader of the nation.

The House of Representatives passed an emergency amendment to the constitution changing the process of Presidential succession yesterday morning, empowering themselves to elect a successor. Despite a decisive Conservative majority in the chamber, party leaders have chosen to appoint former head of the national bureaucracy Pipon Ccarima. In an attempt to restore public trust in the government, Ccarima has already announced his proposed reforms to the nation's political and economic institutions.

Ccarima has identified his immediate priority as restoring energy to the various parts of the country which have been plunged into blackout over the past year by nationalising two of the country's three largest suppliers. Aside from that, he spoke of his desire to create a more effective political system by improving the ability of the executive branch to act decisively and increasing the efficiency of the House of Representatives. The new President is expected to meet with the Chief of the Central Bank of Liore tomorrow afternoon to discuss the issuance of new currency to combat ongoing deflation.
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Re: Liore News Service

Postby jamescfm » Wed Nov 21, 2018 10:43 pm

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Legislature Divided By Constitutional Reforms
Ccarima's threats to steamroll through legislation leads to early elections and new factions emerging

Tuesday 3rd September, 4488
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The legislature remains split over the President's proposals to push through radical reforms to the nation's political structure. Pipon Ccarima, an experienced bureaucrat, has been in the role for less than a year having been appointed to succeed París Sumancho following his resignation last October. Since then, he has sought to significantly alter the institutions of Liore and, in particular, to empower the head of state to make decisions on behalf of the nation but his latest round of reforms attracted a backlash from the leaders of the Conservative Party.

The legislation which has attracted the controversy would dramatically change how the government operates. Rather than a bicameral house, the House of Representatives would become the unicameral Federal Council and it would lose the power to override the President's legislative veto. In addition, the reforms would create the position of a National Director, above the President and the legislature, who would be responsible for "administering justice and the Constitution".

Although the Conservative Party appointed Ccarima and have been supportive of much of his platform, the party's federal leader made clear that he could not vote for the reforms. In response, several Conservative representatives joined with opposition party members to announce the formation of a new political faction called the "National Movement" to support the constitutional reforms. In the early elections which followed, the Movement failed to win a legislative majority but they successfully unseated the Conservatives as the largest party.

Ccarima has announced that the House will vote on the plans before the end of the month but their success hinges on the votes of the resurgent Prosperity Party. Public opinion appears to be strongly in favour of the reforms, with many citizens feeling that Liore has a complacent and ineffective government, although some critics have suggested that they give too much decision-making power to the executive branch and leave the national legislature as a "talking shop". The President himself described the reforms as "absolutely crucial to our survival as a nation".
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Re: Liore News Service

Postby jamescfm » Tue Dec 04, 2018 3:47 pm

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President "Sacked" by National Director
Long term national figurehead is dismissed following controversy over attempts to unduly influence legislative votes

Wednesday 2nd February, 4495
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National Director Rudá Moriharu has utilised his "extraordinary power" to dismiss the nation's elected president, Pipon Ccarima, following controversy over his decision to urge the legislature not to approve various programmes being spearheaded by the National Movement party. For several years, Liore has been in a period of political and economic instability with constitutional reforms and economic adjustments being implemented and imposed on a constant basis. In announcing the dismissal of Ccarima, Moriharu claimed that it would mean "the end of an era of corruption and turbulence".
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Above: Former President and architect of various constitutional reforms Pipon Ccarima has said that he "deeply regrets" many of the changes that he implemented.
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Pipon Ccarima had been President of Liore for the best part of a decade and during his tenure the country has undergone a series of transformations which have created, removed and modified a variety of roles and bodies within the government. Notably, he created the National Director position which has now led to his removal from office. The position is elected by the leaders of the country's nine departments and is intended to be an apolitical role that ensures smooth and effective government.

Over the past two years, though, Ccarima has been fighting a losing battle within his own political party. National Movement, founded to support the first constitutional reforms, is now the largest party across the country and dominates regional government but it has become fractured between allies of Ccarima and Kyr Guañuna, a radical nationalist and leader of the legislature who has called for "work camps" and an immigration shutdown. Moriharu's appointment as National Director last year was highlighted as the death knell for Ccarima's agenda due to the former's close relationship with Guañuna.

As a last stand against his political rival, the President has worked hard to convince legislators in the Federal Council not to override his veto of recent legislation passed to establish the first "work camp" for the unemployed in the mountainous regions in the north of the country. Moriharu claimed this was an overreach of Ccarima's power and has now called early presidential elections to replace him. In the interim, Moriharu himself has taken on the responsibilities of the President, with his first move to overturn the various vetoes Ccarima issued over Guañuna's legislation.
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Tabare is an independent media organisation covering the political, cultural and economic affairs of Liore from a objective perspective with an emphasis on critical journalism.
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Re: Liore

Postby ChitinKal » Sat Jun 13, 2020 1:50 am

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Dawn of the People's Front
January 17, 4769
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Thabo Okeke, General Secretary of the Metzist Worker's Power Party

For the past decades, Liori politics have been dominated by liberalism and the rule of a select few from economically rightist parties, due large in part to the fractured nation of the Liori left wing as well as rampant corruption within the establishment. Corruption has become such an issue in politics, that an independent study conducted by the Liori Institute for Liberty and Transparency estimated that in 4767, at least sixty out of one-hundred members of the Federal Council had accepted a bribe during their term in office, and both President Oluwatoyin Ayodele and National Director Wanyonyi Olayinka have openly and brazenly accepted bribes from Liori oligarchs and used their positions to intimidate political rivals. The military has also become a tool of the establishment to intimidate opponents, with its particularly egregious use as a tool of election fraud, being used to intimidate voters into voting for the ruling Conservative Party and prevent rural voters from going to polls.

Under conservative rule, Liore has become one of the worst cases of income inequality and poverty in all of Terra in addition to its position as one of the most corrupt. Most recent estimates show that top .1% of Lioris own more than the bottom 99.9%, and the bottom 60% of Lioris live beneath international living standards. Worker's rights and protections have also been rolled back to pre-modern conditions, with the right to strike being strictly prohibited and prevented by military intervention, and a child-employment rate of nearly 55%.

The state of the nation has become unbearable in the eyes of many, and the population yearns for change. Many among the Liori left have realized that the need for change transcends their minor political differences, and have in the past few years made strides to work closer and closer together in order to combat the establishment, and these strides have begun to bear fruit. Yesterday, the administrators of four major leftist organizations met in Yamabiro to discuss further cooperation, and left the meeting with a big announcement: They would join together to form a single big-tent leftist party. This party, the People's Front, currently controls twenty-seven seats in the Federal Council from the combination of the leftist members, and plans on putting up candidates for all contested seats in next year's general elections.

The People's Front was created by the amalgamations of the four organizations present at the Yamabiro Meeting. First and largest among these Metzist Worker's Power Party, a political party which advocates for the overthrow of liberal democracy in favor for the temporary creation of a worker's republic before the establishment of communism. Second is the Jamii Party, a party largely popular among the rural Kitembo people which advocates for the gradual shift of Liore away from industrial urbanization and towards a more traditional agricultural way of communal living. The third organization at the meeting was not a party, but rather a political advocacy organization. The Liori Association of Ethical Socialism is a major fundraiser and advocate for independent libertarian socialist candidates and officials, and has vocally advocated for the type of socialism that has historically been established and practiced in Kalistan. The fourth and final organization is the Revolutionary Liori People's Army, a socialist paramilitary group that is technically outlawed by the Anti Partisan Act, but like many other paramilitary groups has been largely ignored by the government and operates freely. The People's Front is administered by a Party Council made up of one representative from each of the four groups, and is headed by Thabo Okeke, General Secretary of both the People's Front and the Metzist Worker's Power Party.
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Re: Liore

Postby ChitinKal » Sat Jun 13, 2020 4:46 pm

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President Announces Increases in Defense and Internal Affairs Spending
May 4, 4769
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Special Security Police Forces Patrols High-Crime Neighborhood of Naranpá

Despite the already astronomical spending towards the police force and the cooperation between the military and civilian police in the combating of organized crime, the rate of crime, especially drug related offenses, in Liore remains high, thanks majorly to the high rates of income inequality, poverty, unemployment, and homelessness among the public as well as the corrupt nature of the government. Despite its apparent ineffectiveness and the obvious need for reform, the Conservative government announced today that it would instead increase the budgets of the Ministries of Internal Affairs and of Defense and not adopt any necessary policing reforms or anti-corruption measures.

The funds allocated to the Ministry of Defense will largely be allocated to a new recruitment campaign for the army, which plans to recruit, train, and equip a new 10,000 soldiers from the rural to form a new corps to combat the drug syndicates set up in the northern highlands.

The funds allocated to the Ministry of Internal Affairs will also largely be used to recruit new officers for urban policing, a planned addition of nearly 2000 officers across Liore. Funds will also be used to purchase better equipment for the Special Security Police, an already militarized police force dedicated to the combating of crime deemed "of an especially great threat to the state." Also, vast amounts of money will be placed in the police's "emergency fund" a slush fund that is suspected of being used to pay off criminals and bribe local politicians.

President Wekesa Temitope released the following statement with the announcement:
Crime, my fellow Liori brothers. Crime is the preeminent threat that puts our nation at risk today. When I first took office,Liore has had some of the largest rates of drug abuse in all of Terra. When I first took office, the cities of Liore have had some of the most violent and extreme cases of gang violence in all of Terra. That was before I took office. In my years as President of our great nation, drug abuse and organized drug sales have fallen exorbitantly. In my time in office, we have almost eradicated all gang related violence. In my time in office, I have made Liore much safer than before my time. But there is still work to be done. Our officers in the police force and soldiers in the military need more support to finish our war on crime, and so today I've approved a bill which has passed with bipartisan support in the Federal Council which would give our police and military the support they need to win this war. There is still much more work to be done, and I will continue to see that work be done to the end of my current term, and throughout my next term. Together, we can an will make Liore safe again.


President Temitope's statement is riddled with falsehoods and utter lies. First and foremost, since President Temitope took office in 4758, drug abuse rates have reportedly risen rather than "fallen exorbitantly," and the number of deaths by drug overdose in Liore have risen from 967 in 4758 to 5589 in 4768. The rate of gang violence has in fact fallen since President Temitope took office, but this isn't due to some grand victory over crime by the government. In Liore, there have been two major drug cartels that have fought over their influence and operations in the country, the Wawambe Group and the Hojo Syndicate. President Temitope's war on drugs and crime has largely targeted the Wawambe Group, and left the Hojo Syndicate to do as they please. Why is this? President Temitope is a former enforcer for the Hojo Syndicate, and has received large "donations" and extravagant "gifts" from the Syndicate's Oyabun, Takeshi Hojo, throughout his political career. In return, President Temitope has used Liore's police and military as a means to combat the Hojo Syndicate's chief rival in the drug trade, and thus got rid of the Syndicate's need to directly combat the Wawamber Group.

In all likelihood, the increase in Internal Affairs and Defense funds will be used to further finance the government's involvement in the Wawambe/Hojo Drug War and not be used to combat all crime. The possibility of the new funds' use in the continued repressment of the government's political opponents cannot be ruled out as well. Just last week a Mjumbe office in Yamabiro was shut down by the Special Security Police and its editor arrested, and only yesterday a prominent Jamii candidate was reported to have been killed in the "crossfire of an engagement between the military and Wawambe footmen."
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Re: Liore

Postby ChitinKal » Sun Jun 14, 2020 1:50 am

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Prosperity Joins the People's Front
June 21, 4769
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Federal Council Composition (left to right; Conservative Party, People's Front, National Movement, Kitembo Power, Independent

The Prosperity Party has long been a bastion of civil and economic libertarianism, and social democracy within Liori politics. Once being the chief opponent of he Conservative Party in the two party system of old, the Prosperity Party has championed the protection of the inalienable rights, such as the freedom of speech and freedom of religion, of the Liori people against extremist elements of politics, as well as been the chief proponent of the establishment of a system of safety net welfare. This ancient titan of Liori has fallen from grace over the decades, yesterday holding only eleven seats in the Federal Council. Today, however, the Prosperity Party holds no seats in the Federal Council, and has become nothing but a wing of the People's Front.

That is right, the Prosperity Party is no more. Announced this morning, the Prosperity Party as been revealed to have been engaged in secret discussions with the Party Council of the People's Front, and as of today has agreed to become the fifth member of the leftist faction. With Prosperity comes six of their eleven Federal Council members, boosting the People's Front from twenty-seven to thirty-three. Of their other five Councilmen, two defected to the Conservative Party and three left Prosperity to serve as independent Councilmen in an unofficial "Minarchist Caucus."

The Prosperity Party's entry into the People's Front has only made the party's tent bigger and more inclusive to more moderate officials and voters. No doubt, Prosperity will also serve to further strengthen the libertarian elements of the People's Front, and to serve as a sort of check on the possibility of the proposition of hasty vast economic reforms.
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Re: Liore

Postby ChitinKal » Sun Jun 14, 2020 6:02 pm

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People's Front Launches Elections Campaign
November 1, 4769
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Mzalendo of the Jamii Party, Ndidi Afolayan

In anticipation for the coming general elections next year, the People's Front has released an official list of the candidates it would be running in June. At the top of the list are the candidates for Liore's two executive offices, Ndidi Afolayan of the Jamii Party for the directly elected position of President, and Thabo Okeke of the Metzist Worker's Power Party for the National Director, who will be chosen by the nine Departmental Prefects who will also be elected in June. This executive ticket is seen as an attempt to leverage the power between the two largest wings of the People's Front, the traditional socialists of the Jamii Party (Who have the largest latent base of support across Liore, and therefor would be the most likely wing to secure the Presidency), and the Metzist communists of the MWPP. A full list of executive candidates can be found below:

Executive Candidates of the People's Front Political Party for the June 4770 General Elections
President of the Republic: Ndidi Afolayan (Jamii)
National Directorof Liore: Thabo Okeke (MWPP)

Prefects of the Federal Departments of Liore
Furutari: Otieno Obama (MWPP)
Arami: Berhane Okonkwo (Jamii)
Lýore: Neo Afolayan (MWPP)
Juuyada: Nkosana Tebosi (Jamii)
Mwibonde: Simba Botha (Jamii)
Shiratoku: Chidiebube Kamau (Prosperity)
Minaraha: Thulani Otembo (Jamii)
Yrasêma: Maxamed Kariuki (MWPP)
Araresa: Nkruma Babatunde (MWPP)


Accompanying the announcement of their election candidates is the kick-off of the People's Front's "Mighty Wind" campaign which the party plans use to, in the words of Ndidi Afolayan, "blow a mighty wind of socialist and traditional Kitembo values across the nation, and awake the sleeping giant that is our oppressed people." This campaign will closely resemble agitation propaganda used by the leftist movements of the developed western nations, in that Party propagandists will directly target the lower class electorate through the media available to them. In the West, this would typically mean through television and radio advertisements, however such means of communication as televisions and radios are but luxuries of the rich in Liore, so the People's Front plans instead to send out speakers across the nation to directly spread their message to the electorate in public demonstrations, including speeches in public and work spaces, the mass distribution of party literature in the literate areas of Liore, and the political use of means of entertainment (Such as displays of political theater and the spreading of campaign music).

One of the major goals of the Mighty Wind campaign is the improvement of voter turnout across Liore, especially in rural areas. Overall voter turnout in the 4766 general elections barely reached 40%, with some areas in the remote mountainous regions of the country not exceeding 10% turnout. This is due in large part to the deliberate lack of education given to rural Lioris with regards to politics and the process of voting, as well as deliberate attempts by the police, military, and pro government militants in preventing rural Lioris from voting in the fear that they would oust the reigning government. To combat these forces, the People's Front will be investing heavily in voter education programs and sending out party liaisons to rural villages to educate the inhabitants in the voting process and encouraging them to vote in the coming elections. With regards to the more illegal anti voting methods employed by the government, the People's Front hasn't announced any definitive plans as to how they would prevent government agents from deterring voting, but Thabo Okeke has publicly stated that "the Revolutionary Liori People's Army is dedicated fully to the protection of the rights of the Liori worker, and will combat any attempt to strip the Liori worker of those rights."
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