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Sorantanali to name Benficalzo and Cannavaro as DPMs: Report

Pacitalia
31-01-2006, 20:08
From La Repubblica Oggia

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Sources close to new prime minister Constantino
Sorantanali say he will name Domenico Benficalzo
(above left) the next senior deputy prime minister
of Pacitalia. The sources also said Luciano Abrigo
Cannavaro (above right) would be named the
junior deputy prime minister.

Sorantanali to name Benficalzo, Cannavaro to DPM spots: source


By Resso Singiomanti, Timiocato

A source within Prime Minister Constantino Sorantanali's new government has told PNN the new Pacitalian leader plans to name his former deputy premerati in Sambuca, and recent federal electoral victor, Domenico Benficalzo, the next senior deputy prime minister of the Democratic Capitalist Republic.

Benficalzo, 45, is an accomplished urban planner who managed Sambucan transportation interests in the provincial government of the Pacitalian province before his emergent political skills helped him ascend to the trust-laden position premerati di deputato in Sorantanali's 1999-2003 cabinet. Benficalzo was returned to the position in Sorantanali's 2003 election victory but resigned to make a run at federal politics when Sorantanali dissolved parliament and called a provincial election.

Benficalzo was the primary force behind the redevelopment of the "Circudisa" highway (Circumferati di Sambuca), a poorly-designed and poorly-maintained ring road around Pacitalia's fourth-largest city from the Papistikas era. The Circudisa was reopened in 1998 under Benficalzo's watch as provincial transportation minister, and has since become one of the key components of the Sambucan transpogrid.

Benficalzo was also responsible for the improvements to the public transportation systems in Sambuca and Fomanunta, and improving the secondary road network between the two cities that form crucial parts of the Pacitalian economy. Furthermore, he proved to be a great philanthropic force, donating over one million doura to various charitable organisations in the province from 1995 to 2005. Benficalzo has a personal worth of around 115 million doura (estimated in November of last year).

Meanwhile, Cannavaro's record is nothing short of accomplished either. Cannavaro has been in the FPD cabinet since 1996. First elected in 1993 he was part of the "Rat Pack" that helped Dr. Timotaio Ell ascend quickly to the position of prime minister three years later. In Ell's 1996 government, Cannavaro was appointed Agustinate of Public Communication, and was promoted to Education after Ell's 2000 election victory. A 2002 cabinet shuffle placed Cannavaro in the very senior position of Agustinate of Finance, where he had stayed up until last Wednesday's general election.

Cannavaro is known as a man who puts popular interests ahead of governmental interests and this belief should help him to get along with Constantino Sorantanali, especially in the position of fourth-in-command. Sorantanali criticised the FPD in 1996 for "believing it was entitled to be governing Pacitalia", but Ell quickly countered and said that was not the case. Ell's 2000 and 2004 campaigns were based on "real government and real values". Sorantanali's 2006 campaign focused on "returning the government to its original position as a problem-solver of the people who elect it".

Prime Minister Sorantanali names his first cabinet tomorrow morning, where it is widely expected he will list a larger number of cabinet members than Ell. Dr Ell's 2004-6 cabinet had 18 agustinates; bookmakers are betting odds of 5-2 Sorantanali's will contain nearly 30.

Sorantanali will also name tomorrow the country which he will be first visiting. His government was reportedly in talks with Hamptonshire, Azazia and the Second Empire of the Golden Throne as to which state will earn the first visit of the prime minister, but he, according to sources, "has kept his final decision to himself so as not to raise any further speculation".
Pacitalia
01-02-2006, 00:20
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