Although the Liberal Leadership Election has not officially started yet, due to the period of mourning for President Blanc, there are three front running candidates.
Walter Rombold - Veteran Izaakian politician who has been in parliament for over 30 years, serving in multiple liberal governments and is seen widely as the stability candidate.
FiFi DePfeffel - Eccentric Mayor of New Mako, who was close to President Blanc both personally and politically, she is seen as the continuity candidate.
Eli Hunt - The outsider in the contest, he is a much more revolutionary candidate who is promising great changes for Izaakia in what he is calling third industrial revolution.
Qaweritoyu: Counting of votes from the October 2022 General Election is underway.
Doctor Speaker Johnathon Wallace has hit back at criticism of his tenure as Speaker, saying that there was nothing woke about it.
Natasha Drake and Debra Blake became members of the Modern Marxist Party earlier this year. Drake is a former Deputy Prime Minister to former Prime Minister Darell Hendrickson and Blake is a former Deputy Prime Minister to former Prime Minister Dane Prado. Drake said Hendrickson and herself bantered a bit about the news and Blake said she visited Prado’s grave on the day she moved Parties.
Qaweritoyu: Madam Deputy Speaker Rivera has said she will always reflect on her time as Deputy Speaker during this tenure as she was always made feel welcome in her role.
Prime Minister Barrett has revealed that due to the extra days of Parliament last week, her Government was able to push through legislation to begin transitioning banking, pharmaceuticals and armaments to public ownership.
The Vice-Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Besern and the Minister of Foreign Affairs have stated their interest to attend the funeral of her late excellency, Dr. Stella Solstice Blanc.
Qaweritoyu: Counting of votes of the October 2022 General Election continues with the results announced later today.
Madam Deputy Speaker Irma Byrd has stated she will continue her fight into the future to get her books back onto University shelves.
President Elliott has said he has enjoyed working alongside Prime Minister Barrett but looks forward to the future in the country with anticipation, whoever should take over from her.
Sunrise Triad officials, including King Andrei & Queen Melea of Stoinia, Prime Minister Gheorghe Vlaicu, President George D. Smith, Secretary of State Njongai Muanko & President Mara Khuri will arrive tomorrow in Izaakia in preparation for President Blanc’s funeral.
No official from Transsuneria will attend Blanc’s funeral, citing the same reason as the Sedunnic delegation. The Transsunerian foreign minister explained further: “While we condemn the heinous deed [attack on the USI government], we cannot pay our respects to a head of government that showed utter disregard of the life of another [Vimmru Innienn].”
The state-owned railway company Wêreldspoor has awarded a contract to the Terelian company Electroputere to create and maintain a high-speed rail network throughout Báraarde.
Qaweritoyu: Harold Garcia has been named Prime Minister-elect in the last couple of minutes with the Advanced Humanitarian League and Modern Marxist Party coming together to form a Coalition Government. The Tax Nobody Party gained the Opposition and other Parties in order of Seats include the Incompetent Democratic Party, World Preservation Movement, Alliance Party and Agrarian Party.
Prime Minister Barrett and Prime Minister-elect Garcia have been seen entering the Presidence, to resign and to be sworn in, respectively.
The Frost Empire has announced that Imperial Frost Army will be expanding the Imperial Army-Air Corp and replace her aging fleet of F16M Fighter jets. The Empire has also opened the bid to include foreign export models in a surprise decision catching local manufacturers by surprise.
Sedunnic aerospace company ASA has been granted clearance by the government to offer its VOT 14 Hotvemm swing role fighter to the Frost Army. Experts believe it will be a strong contender as it has worked alongside Frost military units in both Reizen and Transsuneria.
Qaweritoyu: Prime Minister Garcia has left the Presidence, officially sworn in as Prime Minister of Qaweritoyu. Garcia previously served as Prime Minister from 2005 to 2007 and 2008 to 2009. Since then, Garcia has been Opposition Leader and an MP sitting under other Administrations. Garcia is the first Prime Minister to be elected a third time after such a long absence. Garcia met the Press on leaving the Presidence, where he stated that his first course of action should be to make contact with Izaakia but he is going to leave it at least a week to contact them at this difficult time and instead he will get to work on forming his Cabinet and putting an order on Government business to the end of this year.
The Yttrian government has expressed interest in working with other countries to improve space agencies, and helping neighboring countries develop their own space agencies
Mirrey has announced it has signed a power transfer deal with the new administration in Castiana. The new military rulers have so far refrained from giving a public address due to the missile strike on Daonlathas until now, as the provisional military government is due to give a statement in a few hours.