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Monday, March 4, 302 AP
Web posted at 1342 UST.
Rovens has elected its third President in little more than a year, while the ten-party government holds, for now.
President Kope today accepted the nomination of Johann Weissman for the job of President, then presided as Weissman was elected with 266 votes in favour of the 500 in the National Assembly, then duly stepped down and joined the 43 other MNAs of the Peoples Party of Gvonj (PPG). Johann Weissman was then sworn in as the new President of the People's Republic of Rovens.
President Weissman has been elected on the strength of his 10-party 258 member
coalition government which was recognised by President Kope earlier today. The
so-called "Green coalition" consists of four main parties, the PIMR, PPG,
Weissman's own Democratic Reform Party (DRA), and the conservative Democratic
Union Party, plus six other smaller parties, having between 13 and 7 MNAs each.
They include the Burovians (RBP), the Pataki Reformist Party (PRP), the
staunchly anti-communist Independance for Pataki Party (IPP), the Conservative
Party of Rovens (CPR), Cruistian Democrats (CDAP) and the Gvonjian nationalist
Shi Koneya Gvonjia (SKG).
The Coalition has been forged as an anti-communist bloc by President Weissman
to counter the possibility of the centre-left PIMR joining forces with the
hardline Pataki Communist Party (PCP) who dominate one-third of the Assembly.
The PCP is the political wing of the Pataki Peoples' Army (PPA), the communist
rebel group that forged a communist state in the middle of the Pataki jungle
after years of resistance against the Guwimithian Army. The PPA recently
established a website and asked nations to recognise it as an "autonomous state
within the PR of Rovens", infuriating centrists and right-wingers alike. It is
claimed that President Weissman's predecessor, President Kope, was likely to
grant the PPA state its autonomy. Weissman is unlikely to follow that policy.
But, aside from their fervent determination to prevent the communists from governing, the coalition has little in common. The PIMR says it is "open" to PPA autonomy, and wants a strong leftist administration, while several other parties seek distinctly conservative policies on everything from balancing budgets to social and economic development policy.
Consequently, every last ounce of President Weissman's diplomatic skills used to create this coalition will constantly be needed to keep it together. The question is whether he has the necessary skills. Many believe President Kope should have been allowed to keep serving, because he had shown himself a tireless worker to keeping the country together. Weissman shows all the signs of being little more than an anti-communist bureaucrat.
Only time will tell.
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