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Representation of the People Act 5616 voted in Parliament with close majority.

September 5617 (backdated)

Fort William, Luthori - Tonight, after a long debate in Parliament following the third and final reading of the Government's Representation of the People Act, the Imperial Senate narrowly approved the Bill after intense and fiery debates between both pro and anti-Bill senators. The upper house of Parliament, after carefully manoeuvring the tedious debate that took place about that said proposed legislation, pushed forward the matter to vote and, in similar vein than the Imperial Diet, passed the Representation of the People Bill with a narrow majority, with all Labour senators voting against the Bill, the Church abstaining due to the controversial nature of the Bill and finally, the Liberal and Conservative senators voted in favour of the legislation. The Bill was then sent to the Orange Palace where the monarch is expected to give her assent to its passage, a formality in modern Luthorian parliamentary culture.

Immediately after the Bill's passage, the National Labour Party's national leader, Mrs. Pamela Brooke vowed to not "finish the fight for a better, more inclusive and equal representation" in Luthori and she called all Luthorians to "protest in a non-violent manner" the Government's Bill passage, she also stated that it was a "very dark day for Luthorian democracy". Meanwhile, while the NLP vowed to "rip off the Bill" the second it gets into trusted into power, the Conservative prime minister seems pleased with the result of today's vote in the upper house, as it was projected that the voting would be close as Conservative senators opposed to the Bill threatened the Government to break ranks with the majority and vote with the Official Opposition.

Leading this potential walkout was Free-Market Conservative senator for Orange, Anthony Taylor, who after losing the Tory leadership election to Hector MacGregor and being snubbed by the Prime Minister when appointing his government, pursued a policy of "collaboration", as he would support his Party while in Government but would not hesitate to break ranks and vote with the Opposition when he came to the conclusion that the "interest of his group were not satisfied with this Bill", to avoid such a potentially destructive walkout, the Luthorian Government engaged in negotiations with rebellious Senators and came to an agreement which secured Mr. Taylor's group support to the Bill, which, as we've seen, was crucial in securing the Bill's final passage in the Senate.

Not much is known about the contents and agreement agreed between the representatives of the Government and Mr. Taylor, although it was observed that the Senator was reportedly "very happy" after coming out of the negotiating room at Darlington Palace's "William III" room. One could maybe argue that he was promised a government office in exchange for his support, the drop out of some controversial Bills according to his Group or anything of value to persuade him to support his Government. Regardless of these issues before the vote, the Prime Minister spoke out in the Imperial Diet about the Government's victory in the Senate after the Bill's passage.

When this Government was formed on April the Eighth of last year, we promised to the Luthorian people a stable government, which would bring noticeable changes to their way of life and address their long sustained difficulties that they had to endure. While on this side of the aisle, we have been opened about negotiation, respected parliamentary customs and tried to bring change to the Luthorian people through numerous initiatives and Acts which were passed by this Honourable Parliament.

Today, I must say that, once again, the Government showed its steadfast commitment towards building a future for the Empire's one hundred and forty-nine million population, with this Act having finally passed its parliamentary trial, the people would enjoy a far better representation in the Imperial Diet than before and our promises of reducing the Government's overreaching power in this nation, in that aim, we've reduced taxation upon our struggling business, we've heavily invested in the construction of a dialogue between both the Federal and Local Administrations, we are currently undertaking serious discussions upon the implementation of policies of devolution of the Federal Government's power towards the Provincial Governments. We've increased the budget towards the Housing Department to more effectively tackle the issue of housing shortage and we've launched a program that would be presented before you in some days from now, which is about Luthori's energetic transition.

For all Honourable Members on the opposite end of this row, I must just say, this is how you run a government efficiently and with progress after 1 year in office. We'll continue our fight for the Luthorian people during the next 3 years that we have in office.

The Opposition criticised the Luthorian Prime Minister's address as being arrogant and "short-sighted", with Labour leader Brooke stating that the Government didn't care for "extended representation in the Legislature", as "if they did, they wouldn't have reduced representation in the lower house and wouldn't support the current electoral system which gives to the Conservatives and to the National Labour Party", Mrs. Brooke was applauded by Members of the Labour-Left faction, the democratic socialists to socialists members of Parliament who supports a policy of "breaking" with the current Conservative-led economic and social status quo, promising to build a "true welfare state" in Luthori and "expand the people's rights", according to the official manifesto of the Party which came out after Mrs. Brooke's elected as Labour leader. Meanwhile, members of the traditionally dominated Soft-Labour (or Labour-Right) faction, the social democrat to social liberal members of the Party was more muted, with some becoming openly hostile to Mrs. Brooke's leadership style.

Some rumours have it that some members of Mrs. Brooke's shadow government are planning to overthrow her during a leadership election that would be triggered during the National Labour Party's General Conference in November.

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