by Arapaima13 » Fri Jan 26, 2018 10:00 pm
BREAKING: Milo Minosasa to step down as Leader of Reform Party
- Minosasa will not continue as party leader following end of final term
- Role of Party Leader to be redefined within the Reform Party - Leader to head up the parliamentary party
- Kapllani set to have to fight for her place with several challengers emerging
Milo Minosasa, the leader of the Reform Party for over a decade, has announced his intention to step down, in order to choose a leader that would be part of the parliamentary party following the landmark Ceremonial President Act. Citing that the position of Prime Minister was now a more important role, he argued that a leader of the Reform Party would be better placed fighting for the Prime Ministership rather than the Presidency. Consequently, several challengers have rushed to claim the top job, which would make them defacto Prime Minister with the current Reform Party majority.
In the same vine as his predecessor President Berisha, Minosasa took the opportunity in his last term as President to scale back the power of the President of Kalopia. However, with the support of the Ultranationalists, and the now-defunct Vatan Partisi, Minosasa was effectively able to shift executive power to the Head of Government, and remove all but emergency powers away from what is now to become a vastly ceremonial role.
"This huge change leaves the Prime Ministership as the most important position of power in the country, and therefore it would make sense for the Prime Minister to be a leader of a party," said the President at a press conference where he announced he was stepping down as Party Leader. "I will have had a prosperous eleven years by the time that the leadership is exchanged, but it just is right to pass the leadership down to where it will be best used - our parliamentary leader." Asked if he had any favoured candidates, he said that he wouldn't endorse anyone directly, although he thought that retaining Kapllani would be a guarantee of stability for the party.
This move has, of course, left the Prime Minister, Kolenta Kapllani fighting for her job. Whilst most pundits would agree that she should bring home the support needed from the party, there are several ambitious names who are throwing their names into the hat in order to attempt to overthrow her. One is the Foreign Minister and protege of the Reform Party, Cirket Korkizoglou - the 31-year-old who has already made a name for himself as a foreign affairs expert. Radical pro free trader, it is expected that he would look to mend relations with Jakania, Solentia, and Deltaria, in the hope of boosting the economy. He is opposed by another Reform Party prospect, 28-year-old Siphinan, former economist, Hyske Hoti, who believes that tariffs and protectionism is needed to destroy the economies of their enemies.
Other names include Azmi el-Wahab, and Thanasis Kosta and Acacia Savas, who are running on a joint ticket aimed to reinstate the direction in which Kusturica was taking Kalopia before he was forced to resign in disgrace. Calling themselves Kusturicanists, Kosta and Savas argue that "whilst some mistakes were made," Kusturica was taking Kalopia on the right path before his fall from the top. However, most Reform Party members would be a little apprehensive in voting in Savas who was accused of assassinating the Deltarian Czar - even though she was found not guilty.
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