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Selucia announces snap elections and more implication in international affairs

The Rector of Selucia, Artemisia Iulia, announces early elections

At the stroke of midnight, to the surprise of all citizens, the Rector of Selucia Artemisia Iulia (94) has appeared at her official residence to announce that she will immediately call snap elections to elect her successor and to renew the Chamber. The Rector, who has been re-elected on two occasions since 2013, has justified her decision in view of her "state of health, which has deteriorated over the months." The truth is that during the last term Mrs. Iulia had to be admitted to the hospital up to four times, and the concern among members of her government was beginning to be evident.

"Our nation has overcome many adversities, and has always had strong leaders at the forefront, which is why I am forced to step aside. Because I no longer have the strength to lead this magnificent nation, something that I hope that my successor will succeed. I am enormously grateful to all the people who have given me their support for so many years, and who have helped me grow as a person as I hope I have helped them. "

According to all the polls, in the legislative elections the party of the current Rector, Selucian Spring, would win without doubts, although the Conservatives would increase their representation notably, to the detriment of the Social Democrats (Solidarity) and the Liberals, which leaves in the air the possible majority of the House. However, in the regional elections things would be clearer: Selucian Spring would keep the Praetorship of Oriensos, but could lose Insularia in favor of the new party Agreement for Insularia. Occidentria would remain in conservative hands, Cor Patriae in social democratic hands and Marestella would be the only province whose government would be in doubt.



All this seems to have also pushed the Rector to the electoral advance, although it is not known how voters will reward or punish this movement of effect.



Some polls maintain that the Conservative candidate for the Rectorship, Codio Gnatus, could win, which would mean the election of a Right-winged Rector for the first time since the restoration of democracy in Selucia after the defeat of the fascist dictatorship.

"We are going out to win"

said Mr. Gnatus as soon as the announcement was announced

"the winds blow in our favor, and if it is done, it is time to get involved once and for all in international politics. We have been locked in our own world for decades, improving our culture and our society, but with hardly any external contact, this is something that must change, and with us, that change will come. "

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General Secretary of Solidarity, Victor Maximus, after announcing the coalition break.

Victor Maximus, General Secretary of the centre-left Solidarity, has announced today that the coalition formed by the Conservatives, the Liberals and his party has broken. In a brief interview, where the General Secretary did not admit any questions, he announced that they were wrong to think that a coalition between them and the other two parties to keep Selucian Spring out of government would come out well.

"In politics, sometimes we have to acknowledge the mistakes. From the leadership of the party we thought that a coalition with the conservatives and the liberals would be the best for our nation, by providing a stable majority of 466 senators, but we were wrong. Our preferred members must be the senators of Selucian Spring, and this is something that the previous leadership did not know how to value, so we have determined that it is best to leave the government and move to the opposition, forcing an electoral repetition if necessary. "

From the aforementioned, Selucian Spring, have welcomed with skepticism the words of Solidarity, which they have accused of "opportunists" and "false progressives".

"It is incredible that now, after seeing how the polls predict a disastrous result for them after allying with the right, they say again that we are the priority partners, when our two parties added a large majority after the previous elections and they did not want to revalidate the previous government agreement because they thought that we were damaging them electorally. Now the consequences come, and we will have to value very carefully the next steps we take. "

Barely two years has lasted the tripartite government agreement between Conservatives, Liberals and Solidarity. Established in February 2024 after the elections in which Codio Gnatus was elected as Rector, Selucia's first conservative Head of State since the end of the dictatorship, it intended to maintain Selucian Spring in the opposition, the left party that grouped the communists and other groups, and that since its founding had become the most voted force election after election. In spite of having governed with them the last legislature, Solidarity decided to agree with the parties of the right after observing their continuous decline election after election. However, now, just two years later, they have realized the error of the pact, and things do not seem easy to fix with those who now consider "their priority partners."

The exit of Solidarity from the government leaves the Conservatives and Liberals in the minority in the Senate, so it is not clear if the Rector will call new elections or will hold the remaining two years based on hard negotiations with the opposition.

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Virginia Scadia, General Secretary of Selucian Spring, in the Selucian Senate

As they feared from the bipartisan government between the Liberals and the Conservatives after the departure of Solidarity from the government, which has left them in parliamentary minority, this afternoon the secretary general of Selucian Spring has presented a proposal for electoral advancement in the Senate, which will be voted at the latest tomorrow and that, therefore, will effectively end the legislature, since it will foreseeably have the votes in favor of Solidarity and Selucian Spring, which add absolute majority.



As announced by Virginia Scadia, secretary general of Selucian Spring, this proposal comes after the finding that "a government with a parliamentary minority and without any external support is effectively unstable", as well as following, according to Mrs. Scadia, "check that the Rector Mr. Gnatus had no intention of proposing to the Senate of the nation an alternative formula of government with a parliamentary majority ".



Since in the political system of Selucia is the Rector - head of State and Government at the same time, elected by direct election among citizens - the one who has the exclusive power to propose to the Senate the composition of the government, it was foreseeable that the current Rector, Codio Gnatus, belonging to the Conservatives, would not approve to propose a government of the left despite being the only one that, with the current composition of Parliament, would have the majority of the House.

"We are deeply disappointed with the performance of Mr. Gnatus. In his work as Rector, he should be the guarantor of stability in our nation, and yet he has been inclined towards partisan tendencies and has entrenched himself in his position so as not to lose neither he nor his party "

said Mrs. Scadia, referring to the fact that a call for general elections would effectively be linked to a call for elections for Rector. Not so the regional elections, since last week the Senate of Selucia approved, with the votes in favor of all the parliamentary groups, a proposal of law of the Liberals that dissociated the celebration of the regional elections from the general elections, so that the regional elections will be held every four years, regardless of electoral advances at the national level, something that, according to all the parliamentary groups, "makes all the sense in the world".



Therefore, tomorrow afternoon, unless drastic change of last minute, the Princeps Senatus (Leader of the Senate), Valio Caestes (Selucian Spring) will communicate to the Rector the approval of the Parliament of the call for new general elections, which will mean a new electoral advance in less than seven years in Selucia, after the electoral advance made by the previous Rector, Artemisia Iulia, for "personal health problems".

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Tycho Sylvan, newly elected Praetor of Insularia, after the electoral results.


The Left has lost the regional battle. That is the conclusion that can be drawn from the political landscape left by the celebration of the regional elections in Selucia, the first that have not been carried out at the same time as the general elections. And they have left interesting results that will shake the political landscape of the coming months. And it is that, for the first time since 2009, most of the Praetors of Selucia (regional leaders) will be, without a doubt, belonging to the political right. Although the pacts are not completely closed, the only regional leader of the left who has secured his position thanks to his victory by an absolute majority is Tycho Sylvan of Agreement For Insularia, thus maintaining the total domination of the left in this region, in which the right has never ruled since the restoration of democracy.

However, both in Cor Patriae and in Oriensos, the defeat of the left has been palpable. In the first, Vetunia Sabunta (Solidarity) will foreseeably leave her post of Praetrix of Cor Patriae after 15 years in command of the region, thanks to a pact between the Liberals and the Conservatives, which will make for the first time a conservative, Serina Tedia, the leader the regional executive.

In Oriensos the same pact will be expected, but in the opposite direction, choosing Carina Adelius, of the Liberals, as Praetrix, with the votes of the Conservatives, also ending another period of 15 years of progressive leadership in the region. This is due to the collapse of both parties by the low participation, which has affected especially Solidarity, party of the outgoing Praetor, which has gone from 56 to 20 seats, making impossible left coalition (Selucian Spring + Solidarity), which remained only 2 seats to get the absolute majority to continue governing.

Occidentria and Marestella, on the other hand, will maintain their respective governments: the conservative Saulus Ecchius will begin his fifth consecutive term in coalition with the liberals despite the fact that the left has experienced strong growth in the most conservative region of the country, the only one where participation has grown considerably (Selucian Spring has gone from 36 to 59 seats, while Solidarity has plummeted from 32 to 19, following the pattern of the rest of the regions). In Marestella, the liberal Valeria Sargona has already announced that she will seek a pact with the Conservatives after Solidarity announced that it will no longer support the regional executive.

In this way, it seems feasible the reading that many analysts have made of this result, in which they put the spotlight on Solidarity, which could have experienced this spectacular fall in votes for its pact of the previous legislature at the national level with the Conservatives. In the first elections that are not held together with the general elections, the left voters seem to have rewarded Selucian Spring in a massive way, and in the case of Insularia, rewarding Agreement for Insularia, a party that emerged as a split from the former and that seems to have an unstoppable rise in the region, where it managed to take 69 of the 150 at stake in general elections, has achieved the leadership of the national Parliament and where it has reaped more than 60% of the vote in these regional elections. However, the most damaged party, Solidarity, will now have to make a profound assessment of these results, which have condemned them to the worst result in their history in the regions. For the moment, the general secretary of the party and several members of the regional executives have submitted their resignation, and since then the party have already announced "changes" in their policies to re-approach the electorate that have left disenchanted.

On the other side of the political spectrum, the Conservatives are in luck, as worse results were expected after losing the national executive to the left. The victory, by surprise, that has allowed them to achieve the government of Cor Patriae for the first time in its history, and having been able to maintain the executive in Oriensos in the face of the rising liberals has been a cause for joy in the national headquarters.

After the results, the Insularian Praetor has appeared to congratulate his party for the results and issue a serious warning to the left:

The pacts with the right are the bane. The voters, as is logical, are unable to understand how a party that calls itself "progressive" is able to agree with forces that claim to take away rights from citizens. Solidarity, with its bad decision motivated by the misunderstood grudge against Selucian Spring, has managed to get the left, as a whole, one of the worst results of history in regional elections. Let's hope this serves as a warning and we all get to work so that, from our ideological differences, we can get a united and strong left to face the conservatives policies that may be applied in the upcoming years in the regions.