Kalistani Major History

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Reiley mulls Retirement"Centrist Course doesn't seem to be yielding results"
Kaliburg Ananto
April 12, 4480


President of the Republic Raymond Reiley-Carrangus reflects on nearly 6 full years of tenure

The President of the Republic, Raymond Reiley-Carrangus was elected promising to build a grand coalition.  And he eventually did, assembling a supposed all star team of all the major institutionalist Parties.  He also presented an ambitious agenda for the ministers of the Government to work on.

Now, more than 5 years later, Reiley has a different attitude.  "Well, Kalistan is a chaotic mess.  Two Conservative Parties, a number of Parties who simply show up once in a while to vote.  The Centrist course that I was elected on doesn't seem to be yielding any results."

Reiley added, "I think at the end of this term, I will not seek re-election.  I am not sure what the SP intends to do, but they had better do something else, because Kalistan's government is in worse shape than before I came into office."

Reiley mused on the era of single Party rule.  "You know, when I was a kid, the SP was the only game in town.  This was the period that people called the anti-ephemeral Party period.  My parents used to complain that the SP was anti-democratic, and they inculcated me with the ideals of accommodating other Parties.  That was behind my approach.  But being in this office, I can really understand the impulse behind Reina's move to squash these Parties that appear out of nowhere, and then fade away just as quickly a few years later.  I have sympathy for the abandonment of the hard democratic stance of her predecessors.  It took a lot of courage.  But unfortunately, her reforms did not last beyond the end of her tenure.  She had to reverse them to protect the ability of the SP to remain competitive as long forgotten Parties rose from the dust."

The President turned to his own term.  "Our term has turn into a caretaker administration.  We can't keep herding cats.  Having to put a government together of four or five Parties, some of which hate us, some of which won't work with one another, some of which only show up once a year to vote and cause the government bills to fail, this is a real challenge for our government.  It would be much easier for us if we just had one or two Parties with a majority, but there are something like 6 or 7 active Parties depending on how you count them in Kalistan.  Ain't no way they're getting a majority out of one or two of them."

If Reiley does not run for office in the next elections, he makes it clear that he will not stay on the sidelines.  "I hope the SP doesn't run another Candidate this time around.  The SP is more Left than it has been with John and I at the helm.  Our voters are not too happy with the hard tack to the right that they perceive from us.  We have to work with Parties to our right to get anything done, but of course, this upsets the base.  I would hope someone more suitable for the current state of the Republic would run, someone from the Agramontian League for example.  I'd push for endorsement of their candidate if they ran.  A center Leftist is better than a Rightist, and a Socialist is not suitable for Kalistan's current mood."

The President of the Republic laid out his goals for his current term.  "I'd like to see a new government put in but it looks like the AL is going to balk.  I'd like to see those treaties passed and I'd like to see relations with Trigunia, Indrala and Istalia improved.  I'd like to see more cooperation with Lourenne.  Its all very ambitious.  I hope we can do it in the next three years."

Ambitious indeed.