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BREAKING: Senate circumvents Schuhbeck election trickery by Designating Stadhouder
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Stadhouder Karl-Heinz Sztermann

It seems like the last ace up the Presidents sleeve, the emergency measure allowing her to delay the election, has been neutralized by the Senate. In an surprising turn of events, the Senate under the leadership of former military-man and VVP chairman Heinrich Berger have found a legal possibility to circumvent the delay; back in the days of transition between the Dual Monarchy and the Triad, certain constitutional instruments outside of the main codification have not been repealed by the passage of the Triad Constitution, one of these is the Senate’s possibility to appoint a so-called “Stadhouder” a temporary office which is assuming any and all executive power from the cabinet in times of “qualified crisis.” According to the Senate legal committee as well as constitutional law Professor Marvin Heendrijks a situation such as this could qualify. This raises a question though, why should the President not just push for an injuction with the courts? The answer to this reveals the crucial part of this; the appointment of the Stadhouder is not under the jurisdiction of court review, as such the courts have no power over this decision.

After discovering and confirming the plausibility of this solution, the Senate moved quickly, in absence of another candidate, the Chancellor of Himmelshtern, Karl-Heinz Sztermann has been designated as Stadhouder, with the passage of the bill, he has now absolute executive authority ex lege without any other action necessary. His first executive decisions included the arrest of various cabinet members of the Schuhbeck administration, mostly the corporate loyalists symbolizing the last holdouts of presidential power in the Triad, additionally the Presidential Palace in Bannerhafen is now under the control of Darnussian Member Republic Forces and they’ve been blocking any attempt of the President communicating with the outside world which functionally makes Schuhbeck a prisoner within her own seat of power. The last order of the first day of Stadhoudership was the order to the army to push forward to detain the remaining mercenary forces and the authorization to the army officers to initiate any and all available communications with the hostile forces. According to the temporary Office of Foreign Affairs in the Stadhouders Authority, there have been invitations going out to Wiel, Sholemberg and Tel Bira to Jorgen Island in an effort to officially initiate talks.