Government and Imperator Clash!The Government have clashed with the Imperator of the Empire, both in public and in the Imperial Diet. It started when the Socialist Imperator, Tom Jones, called on the White Rose to work with him, an invite they wasted no time in refusing.
Since then, the Diet have censured and condemned the Socialist Party by a vote of 282 to 68. The official censure reads;
That this Diet does hereby censure the Socialist Party for its actions in the last 2 years.
-Recognising that the Socialist Party used the dissolving of the Purple Guard by the Courts to seize control of the Diet with a shadow majority;
-Recognising their refusal to allow for early elections 3 times, and using said majority to pass laws and budgets without accountability or scrutiny;
This Diet does condemn the actions of the Socialist Party of Luthori. It does hereby invite the Imperator Tom Jones and former Imperial Seal Bearer Calvetta Franck, to address the Imperial Diet in relation to this censure.
Ms Franck responded, ‘This debate brought by the party who refuses to start negotiations with Imperator Jones makes me slightly laugh to say the least… We refused early elections because we knew this would be used by the far-right to try and take over this country, causing a new poltiical crisis. Luthori needed stability and we put the country back on track. The budget deficit has been reduced, social security has been strengthened and human rights were preserved.’ She also announced her resignation as President of the Socialists, saying ‘I believe after all those years, I'll step down as leader of the SP and leave the post to Jessica Sprout who'll run it the next leadership election.’
The Imperator, Tom Jones, decided he would not attend the Diet to respond, but did so on national television. In his address, he said ‘9 months after the election, we have now a new cabinet. I could be happy about that but I'm worried by the state of democracy in this country. This is why I'm making this address. The Imperatorial election saw a very clear victory of the values I represent while the parliamentary election saw the opposite. Those two realities do not need to be opposed, but they rather need to cooperate because this country can only thrive in unity. Mr. Weston chose to lead a weak minority government. Supported alternatively by the two smallest parties in this Diet. We don't really know if the Holy Party or the Luthorian Democratic League supports it. Does that sound link a stable majority?’
The White Rose refused to respond, but other Parties in the Diet did. The Green & Farmers Union said ‘Your party raped democracy as 71% of voters were sacrificed at the alter of power and communism. You call the WR-LCP Govt as undemocratic.’ The Holy Party said, ‘The government of White Rose and the Conservatives is supported by the Holy Party. We would rather live without a government than support the government of power hungry authoritarian parties willing to abolish democracy for the sake of their own values.’
The Diet voted 236 to 101 to reject the address by the Imperator and note their opposition to it. The Workers Party remained silent but sided with the Socialists in the vote, despite being the party they abandoned to take sole control after the dissolution of the Purple Guard.