NEW WESTERN ATLANTIC - Ten days after the last RBC report, the government has entered a state of relative torpidity: stagnation in the Immigration and Diplomacy Ministries, no communication from the Communications Ministry, inactivity in the High Court and so too the Justice Ministry, one single vote in the Senate and puppetry in the role-play.
Prime Minister Reformed Badad and Deputy Prime Minister Maylande assumed office thirteen days ago - and little has changed since then. The last RBC article reported that regional populace was sitting steadily at 452 nations. That has barely changed. The region now has 458 nations. The Ministry saw a dip in the population, which at its lowest, reached the mid 440s. Evidently, the population has recovered since then, at the advice of former Immigration Minister Baconbacon123. The Ministry is also expected to produce the first ever Seasonal Net Migration Report on February 1st. It is noteworthy that during this time of stagnation, the World Assembly (WA) population has also remained stagnant. The IM targets WA members, so the fault resulting in this stagnation can be (at least partially) deflected from the Ministry itself. Moving from one region of stagnation to another, the Diplomacy Ministry saw a great deal in terms of diplomacy but little in terms of results. According to the weekly DM report produced by the Diplomacy Minister Becklana, the region received zero formal embassy proposals and four informal (it is assumed that this means a foreign/diplomacy minister of another region telegrammed officials in the DM) proposals, all of which were rejected on the grounds of inadequacy. The regions '10000 Islands' and the Union of Democratic States (UDS) both rejected the Ministry's embassy proposals, citing the Ex Patria scandal and no true apparent reason respectively. Adding to yet another idle Ministry, the Communications Ministry has been ironically silent over the past few days. In fairness, however, nothing has happened worthy of any activity from the Ministry, so Communications Minister could be excused for the Ministry's silence. Moving from the Communications Ministry to the Justice Ministry, it too has seen a slight downturn in activity. The Ministry is waiting for the conclusion of the motion posed by Bergonnia to dismiss the constitutional challenge to the co-chancellorship deal posed by Activist Senator Ghan, meanwhile the constitutional challenge to the Political Integrity Act (L.R. 73) has begun. Justice Minister Cesorion, who is representing the government, is yet to make his opening statement. The inactivity in the Justice Ministry can largely be attributed to the Court, which has yet to respond - as stated above - to a motion to dismiss the constitutional challenge of the co-chancellorship deal, a motion which was filed by Bergonnia. This motion was filed sixteen days ago - the court case itself has not even properly begun. According to Justice O-Broki, three of the justices have submitted their opinion and two have not. It is impossible to tell which justices could possibly be taking so long. As has already been mentioned, the court is also occupied with the constitutional challenge of Legislative Resolution 73 (The Political Integrity Act). This bill - which has not been exempt from controversy - has been challenged before, however the Court was evenly split 2-2 therefore the case is being reviewed. The challenge has been filed by Dukna, the former Justice Minister. Interestingly, this law is the sole reason why he is the former Justice Minister, after a botched attempt to switch parties forced him to resign. The body from which that bill originated - the Senate - has not bucked the trend of relative governmental lethargy. As stated in the previous RBC article, the Contempt of Legislature Act (CoLA) was considered by senators over ten days and rejected by a very large margin - 3 Ayes; 16 Nays; 1 Abstention. Shortly after this, the age-old argument of abstentions arose fiercely in the Senate. Under the status quo, abstentions are, in essence, Nay votes since they do not add to the Aye column, nor reduce the threshold needed for legislation to pass. The Senate, having defeated the CoLA, now moves on to the NWA Holidays Creation Act, proposed by Justice Trump and Pence establishing regional holidays on the birthdays of former Prime Ministers and the Monarch. It is being considered at the time of writing this article, and also rather fiercely at that. The bill has been commended by some as an addition to the NWA's culture, and retorted by others as unnecessary and takes too many days away from the government's time over a seemingly trivial purpose. As if the passion-filled arguments could not be more numerous, the regional role-play also witnessed some controversy. Former National Party member Robulov was accused, with a considerable pile of evidence collated by RP Director Crimson Isles, of violating RP rules by creating puppets. Having reviewed the evidence, it can be safely said that his attempts at deceit were sloppy at best. The disgraced resident - who claimed to have been a Prime Minister of another region not once, not twice, not three times, no. He claimed he was PM seven times. Believable, right? He has since 'fled' the region after the Justice Ministry was in the early stages of preparing a prosecution to Europe, a region which also has been embroiled in controversy over WA-related drama. Europe's foreign ministry has been contacted, on the Justice Ministry's request, by the Diplomacy Ministry, informing them of the nature of the character who has just joined their region. Exactly three weeks into the new government, optimism is, slowly, fading as the region comes off of the sugar high we call elections. It is, however, much too early to be making valid predictions of the effectiveness of this government. Only time shall tell.
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Suternia
21/1/2019 06:29:16 pm
Very nice!
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