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RUSHMOORE ELECTED?!
Eyebrows raised as former CIP leader and Kalistani President returns to office despite publicly retring
Kaliburg, Ananto District
January 20, 4080

As a new decade dawns in Kalistan, there is already widespread bemusement and controversy following the elections for President and the National Assembly. As the results came in, it became clear that neither of the frontrunners, incumbent President Florence Orlando and plurality leader Fred Whistle, had won the race. Kalistan's new President was, in fact, Whistle's former leader Owen Rushmoore. Even though he had not made public his candidacy, Rushmoore was able to repeat his previous success and narrowly edge out the Labour Party candidate on the second ballot.

The result immediately prompted claims of foul play from Rushmoore's rivals, with the Labour Party submitting an early elections bill within a week of the tabulation of the results. With 430 Deputies from the Socialists, Unionists, Libertarians and Labour themselves currently supporting, Kalistani could be in for a return to turbulent domestic politics at a time when its international relations have dominated any concerns closer to home. Many questioned how Rushmoore was able to get his name on the voting forms without any public declaration of candidacy or even a leak from an election official. We asked Labour leader Luca Curti for his view on the events;

We are currently trying to ascertain how exactly Mr. Rushmoore ended up on the ballot paper and, perhaps most interestingly, why he chose to stand. Obviously, we aren't happy about the situation but we are quietly hopeful that if we are able to force another vote, we will be more successful. It cannot be escaped though that the CIP have some serious explaining to do, not least to their own Comrades in the Libertarian Democrats!