NationStates Jolt Archive

with the allied forces handing over formal control of the government to a recently elected government coalition of socialist democrats and catholic centralists, the nation of Hitlerreich turns a new chapter. The dictatorship has now become a republic. The new republican government has formally applied to join the United Nations.

The new setup is as follows: the house of representatives (elected by popular vote) has 535 seats, every party that beats the 2,5% mark gets a proportional number of seats, the house controls all appropriations.

The seats are currently divided as follows:

coalition:
Majority socialist democrats 211 seats
Catholic centalists 78 seats

opposition:
Minority socialist democrats 35 seats
Conservative nationalists 64 seats
Democratic libertarians 61 seats
Nationalist front 86 seats

The National Socialist Party is banned.

The prime minister is the leader of the biggest coalition party, every cabinet member must be approved by a majority in the 96 member senate. To prevent possible opposition filibusters (54 votes required to break any filibuster) paralyzing government the president can temporarily override the senate's objection to a candidate by appointing a candidate of his choosing temporarily, this temporary candidate cannot stay on longer than 3 months, while the senate either ratifies the cabinet candidate or approves a new candidate.

Everyone of the 16 regions sends 6 senators to the capital, senators that are appointed by the regional governments.

The president, elected by direct popular vote (a majority is required) swears in the prime minister and his cabinet. In case of a government-house of representatives stalemate, the president can temporarily (not more than 6 months, then the senate must approve any extension) override any house of representatives objection to legislation and direct the prime minister to rule by decree, invoking article 48 of the new constitution.

Regional governments work the same.

The allied forces remain in the Reich for the time being to help the transition and prevent any revolutionary takeover.

Supreme court and federal judges are nominated by the government and must have Senate approval.
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The mood was glum amongst the exiled leaders of the National Socialist Party, the nation seemed to be prospering again, however they were not a part of it. "Something must be done", demanded the Führer of the exiled Party, "work on getting our Party unbanned and get it DONE!".

"It should be possible", said Joebbels, "many of the new bureaucracy used to be party members, they will not be known to the allied forces since all senior party members have stepped down or have been forced out, patience will be the key".

The Second Empire pledges it's military might to back up the democracy which was instilled in Hitlerreich post-bellum, and will see to it that the Nazi party does not rise again.

[OOC: Most likely these are empty words anyways...so rest assured your Nazi party will most likely gain power.]

The Second Empire pledges it's military might to back up the democracy which was instilled in Hitlerreich post-bellum, and will see to it that the Nazi party does not rise again.

[OOC: Most likely these are empty words anyways...so rest assured your Nazi party will most likely gain power.]

ooc: wait and see, but some things are rather obvious aren't they ;)

***OFFICIAL STATMENT***

The Empire will be watching you. We currently have a few hundred thousand Super-Sonic Cruise Missiles pointed at your heads. Any attempt at esablishing another NAZI Regeme with intent on world domination will result in the loss of your entire nation.

Signed,
Mr. Shaz Bot, Emporer
The Holy Empire of Shazbotdom

godmodding mode ON:

well, we have a gazillion Waiser Kilhelm devices planted in your cities :D

godmodding mode OFF:

well that's what my agents told me :eek:

Imperial Reply

The Empire of Cotland will pledge it's support to democracy in Hitlerreich, and have therefor issued orders to the 9th Division (3 Infantry Brigades, 1 Armoured Brigade + support units) to deploy to Hitlerreich and keep the peace. They will arrive in one day, and remain till we are certain that the democracy is working and that the Nazis (National Sosialists) remain banned. The forces are expected to remain in Hitlerreich for a duration of two - four years, and will operate under the "fire when fired upon" doctrine. The forces wil also, in addition to keep the peace,l make sure that the Nazi party remain banned.

Regards,
Imperial Government of Cotland

Tag

Jamum has sworn to protect your nation if a any party try's to take over with non-democratic ways

OOC:I would of supported you in fending of invader's due to the fact that the nazi's were elected into power and you didn't mention doing anything wrong......but I didn't won't to get my batty kicked

Yours sincerely B.H.Jhonson
minister of foreign affairs

It is congragulatory that the democratic process is happening again in Hitlerreich. Still, our fifteen thousand strong Brigade in Ostmark will remain there permanantly, and act as a stepping stone if any further aggression is comitted on behalf of Hitlerreich or it's deposed Nazi party.
Furthermore, Republican forces will soon be dispatched to hunt down and retreive the former Hitlerreich Nazi party, so that they may be brought to justice as prisoners of war, and possibly war criminals for their illegal attempted annexation of Ostmark.

Head of State,
Feild Marshal Peshtur Namtar (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v322/Dostanuot/Peshtur_Namtar.jpg)

despite being elected with 59% of the vote, by the time president Edrich Friebert was to open parliament he had more than 60% of the Reichians firmly opposed to him because of his radical policies. He wanted to turn over Reich officials for international tribunals, and outlaw all right wing parties.

1,151 people were there when the president opened parliament, he held a speech, outlining his agenda to create a council based republic. Many were amazed, was the new president calling for communism? What would the reaction be?

From behind the curtains, Heymann Frezow pointed his Rausem rifle with silencer at the president, and... suddenly to the amazement of spectators the president fell to the ground, the first person to get there, state secretary Hotto von Indenburg saw that the president likely died before he hit the ground.

It started off a civil war, pro Party against pro Communist and pro Socialist bands fought eachother on the streets, and there were random executions everywhere. The cunning and skill of many young former Reich officials saw to it that the Communists got a disproportionate share of the blame in the press...

The Cottish Brigades were out in the streets, assisting the police in breaking up the various fights and executions. Most of them were stopped with a salvo of Cottish 6.8mm ammo into the air followed by police moving in and arresting the rioters. Still, it wasn't enough.

Street in Hitlerreich
Two M113A3 APCs rolled down the street, moving towards a big fight. As the vehicles stopped, a total of 22 soldiers stormed out and took up positions, aiming their weapons at the rioters while the Lieutenant in command spoke, aiming his Walther P99 at the rioters as well.

"Break up the fight right now and put your hands in the air. Break it up or we will shoot! You will have no further warnings!"

the occupying forces seem to have increased the total # of troops, so the underground Werewolf organization disbanded itself and people started to go about the normal way of life, in the new democracy.

A new president was elected, he was former general Merich von Anstein.

The cabinet soon discovered that about 80% of the riches of the Reich had been transferred to the former Party leadership, in exile. With little else to do, and massive unemployment, birthrates skyrocketed and the Reichs population increased from 16 to 32 million in no time.

Most of the streetfighers from the different organizations were under arrest, or had fled the country. There were no senior Party officials left anywhere in control of anything. The new army, training under close scrutiny of the occupying forces, also consisted only of new recruits, and would be capped at 160.000