Iluminaria
29-03-2009, 23:32
Irminsul, Iluminaria - Two days after his inauguration, President Kellson of the Iluminaria Monarchist Party announced the abolition of his own office, in accordance with the IMP campaign platform. The IMP seized power in last month's elections following ten years of heated protest against the policies of former President Garant Krim and the Glorious Republic of Iluminaria Party. Krim's mishandling of the nation's economic crisis, combined with his hardline Jehovite policies, ignited longstanding currents of discontent among the Republic's majority Ilune ethnicity, who hold that the Republic and its Constitution unduly favour the Jehovite faith and the Firnic ethnicity, both imported in the late 1800s by foreign missionaries and traders.
Campaigning on a platform of restoring the rule of the Starian dynasty and the 1749 Code of Law, the IMP reached out to moderate Firnic voters by opposing the corruption and political horse-trading of Republican politics, which is commonly held to be the cause of the nation's twelve-year economic recession.
Constitutional scholars say it's debatable whether President Kellson has the power to abolish his own Presidency, as while former President Krim sought to forbid the reestablishment of the monarchy, he also passed Constitutional amendments increasing his own powers. If it goes to the Senate floor, a bill to restore the monarchy might well be struck down by the GRIP opposition, but the President might yet have the support to succeed if it goes to a popular referendum, providing he can still muster the turnout among Iluminaria's Ilune voters that he orchestrated in the elections last month.
Kellson has declared himself "acting Regent" until a monarch can be located and crowned. Since its abolition in 1798 the Starian dynasty has spread out over the globe, and genealogists are carefully tracing its descent to locate the candidate with the most royal blood. Given the IMP's stated preferences that the ruler be Iluminarian, Ilune, and not Jehovite, however, royal right may end up second to political expediency in President Kellson's search for a monarch.
Campaigning on a platform of restoring the rule of the Starian dynasty and the 1749 Code of Law, the IMP reached out to moderate Firnic voters by opposing the corruption and political horse-trading of Republican politics, which is commonly held to be the cause of the nation's twelve-year economic recession.
Constitutional scholars say it's debatable whether President Kellson has the power to abolish his own Presidency, as while former President Krim sought to forbid the reestablishment of the monarchy, he also passed Constitutional amendments increasing his own powers. If it goes to the Senate floor, a bill to restore the monarchy might well be struck down by the GRIP opposition, but the President might yet have the support to succeed if it goes to a popular referendum, providing he can still muster the turnout among Iluminaria's Ilune voters that he orchestrated in the elections last month.
Kellson has declared himself "acting Regent" until a monarch can be located and crowned. Since its abolition in 1798 the Starian dynasty has spread out over the globe, and genealogists are carefully tracing its descent to locate the candidate with the most royal blood. Given the IMP's stated preferences that the ruler be Iluminarian, Ilune, and not Jehovite, however, royal right may end up second to political expediency in President Kellson's search for a monarch.