NationStates Jolt Archive

OZELLA - The Rittian Federal Government Complex in Ozella was in uproar today as rumors swirled about recent disclosures from the office of President Alana Drovin. A television news network aired a program yesterday evening featuring a former junior assistant to the President who asserted that she had used her power to force him to have sexual relations with her. "She threatened to have family members killed if I did not submit," stated the aide in the program. He has decided to remain anonymous.

The flames of rumor only grew higher when the executive branch responded. Senior Press Liaison Clayton Zacarias held a press conference open to all media members who wished to attend, an unusual step as press conferences are usually restricted to major networks with high ratings. "I've invited you all here to ensure that the truth is heard by as many people as possible," said Zacarias. "The President did not have any form of sexual relations with the aide in question, and he was not fired as a result of his 'noncompliance' with her 'demands'," stated Zacarias while making quotation marks in the air with his hands. "She also would never threaten someone with death for 'noncompliance' with any of her 'demands'. We all know the President loves freedom and democracy, and were these accusations true, they would run contrary to all that she's worked for to establish this country.This is a preposterous accusation, and networks that carry these slanderous, defaming lies may have trouble getting press passes in the future."

Meanwhile, President Drovin has not been seen in public all day, and the Press Office stated that she has departed on a preplanned vacation. However, an anonymous source inside the Rittian Federal Army Air Forces claims there were no plans to transport the President anywhere until around noon yesterday, around the time advertising for the television program began.

Stay tuned for further updates.

OZELLA- Three more male aides of President Alana Drovin have come forward claiming they were forced to have sexual relations with the President. The President has not been seen in public since the scandal surfaced almost one week ago, and rumors say she is vacationing at a heavily secured beachhouse on the southeast coast.

Liberal members of the Council led a vote earlier today to bring the President to impeachment hearings for violations of the Rittian Constitution's provision that the President is "the moral leader of the people, and must behave as such." The measure passed, 54-46, and several political analysts have speculated that this is bad news for the President, as her conservative allies hold a 70% majority in the Council and this lack of support from them endangers her Presidency. The hearings will begin next week, and witnesses are already being summoned for preliminary questioning as the two sides prepare their cases. Press members have already camped out around the Council buildings, hoping to identify the first aide to come forward. Wild rumors are already flying around regarding his identity. He will soon become known, as a second measure to televise the impeachment hearings passed 51-49.

OZELLA - The two factions that have formed in the Rittian Federal Council have finished preparing their cases, and the impeachment hearings of President Drovin will begin tomorrow. Early estimates indicate the anti-Drovin faction to solidly control 40 votes and the pro-Drovin faction to control 20, leaving 40 votes, and thus the fate of the President, up in the air. However, analysts have been predicting that the President will not emerge from the scandal, and if she does, she will essentially be, in the words of one pundit, "a four-year house-sitter for the next President" as she loses all respect and support. However, the anti-Drovin faction was dealt a serious blow when key witness Andrey Brodeur failed to report to the Capital to testify against the President. Brodeur brought the original allegations of gross sexual misconduct. His house in a suburb of Ozella was telephoned repeatedly by the anti-Drovinites, with no reply. They then visited it, and found it unoccupied and ransacked. "There was blood on the living room carpet, just a bit, and his dog had been shot in the backyard, clean through the head. Also there were three police officers standing out front when we arrived, and we had to, er, incentivize them to depart," said liberal Councilor James Rembrandt. In reply, Senior Press Liaison Clayton Zacarias said via press release, "These accusations are preposterous. If Councilor Rembrandt actually believes he saw these things along with several of his comrades, they were obviously having a drug-induced hallucination. Councilor Rembrandt has never shown any interest in reality if unreality suits his political career, and it always has."

Another witness who claimed that the President harassed him reported that his house had burned down and all his neighbors had suddenly gone on vacation while he took a fifteen-minute trip to the grocery store. "I'm not sure what to make of it. I've never heard of ten families suddenly saying, 'Let's pack up and take a trip to the coast' all in the same fifteen minute span, and then none of them noticing a flaming house on their block as they departed. Yeah, it's a little weird."