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What's next, Valruzia?

February 5626

Leaders of the six political parties that gained the most representation in the Valruzian Sejm in order of parliamentary strength

Following the 5626 Valruzian elections, in which citizens were able to head to the polls and elect their very own parliament for the first time in three decades, a question now looms in the horizon: What's next, Valruzia?

With the start of a new era for many Valruzian citizens, the freshly elected parliament has now one duty: write the new Valruzian Constitution to leave behind once and for all the dark days from the Morawski dictatorship, and try, with the best of their capacities, to prevent it from happening again by strengthening the democratic mechanism within the country.

International observers certified the legitimacy of the elections, and the Military Junta has now officially published the results, to be seen as follow:

-Sovereign Valruzia: 34.75% and 186 seats.
-National Renewal: 19.47% and 132 seats.
-Communist Party of Valruzia: 15.9% and 100 seats.
-Dignity and Progress: 13.57% and 83 seats.
-National Salvation: 12.01% and 71 seats.
-Liberal Alliance: 3.8% and 26 seats.
-Others: 0.5% and 3 seats.

With a majority at 301 seats, it is clear that no party has a straight majority to pass their criteria over the will of the others, and with only the two first parties commanding an absolute majority and them being in opposite sides of the political spectrum, one thing is certain: no vision for Valruzia can be achieved without negotiation. For many of these constitutional reforms, a majority of 2/3 is needed, which means 401 seats. The combined forces of National Renewal and National Salvation, the two main conservative parties in this parliament, is therefore more than enough to stop any attempt to pass anything without the approval of at least one of them. It is also clear that despite landing in 3rd place, the KPW will demand a big seat in the table after sweeping the vote in the Kampanian Voivodeship, as its leader Karolina Pietrzyk has already made clear since election night.

International media is now returning to the Seleyan country, as this election has attracted significant and widespread attention from all around Terra. It is worth noting that Valruzia is Seleya's fourth most populous nation and 11th in all of Terra, and one of the main economies at a global scale. 

The Military Junta is said to be already in contacts with many governments to allow them to return to home soil and open back their national embassies, with the hopes of restablishing Valruzia's international network. 

The Military Junta will stay in place as Head of State and Government of Valruzia until the new Constitution is drafted and approved, which will then determine the political configuration of the country. According to recent polls, a vast majority of the Valruzian citizens want their country to become a Republic (81%), with a mere 7% claiming that they would prefer Valruzia to become a Monarchy. Other questions, such as whether Valruzia should become parliamentary of presidential, show more tied results, with the parliamentary supporters having the lead (54% vs 38%). 

With all of that, we have asked the main candidates for the past elections to resume in one sentence what are their intentions with the new Valruzian Constitution that is in their hands to be made now. These are their responses: 

• Krystian Małecki (Sovereign Valruzia): "Sovereignty, protection, freedom. Full stop"
  
• Bernard Łukaszewski (National Renewal): "We will fight to ensure that our Constitution preserves Valruzian traditions and values while building a strong democracy"
  
• Karolina Pietrzyk (Communist Party of Valruzia): "We have an opportunity to make this constitution as one that guarantees the dismantling of oligarchic power and puts the means of production in the hands of the people."
  
• Amelia Korzeniewska (Dignity and Progress): "We will work tirelessly to enshrine human rights, social justice, and environmental responsibility are at the core of Valruzia's democracy and safeguarded by our Constitution."
  
• Ignacy Żelazny (National Salvation): "We need a strong and secure Valruzia to be reborn, and our constitution must reflect that by having at the forefront the ideas of national strength and military preparedness."
  
• Wiktoria Paściak (Liberal Alliance): "A modern, efficient state requires a constitution that guarantees economic freedom, private property, and limited government intervention."
  

They will also have to deal with matter of parliamentarism: unicameral or bicameral legislature? How much power given to the Voivodeships? Unitary or federal nation? Representation by population or equality? Here in our newspaper we have done some mathematics and have come up with the results of the 5626 elections if the Voivodeships were given seats based on their population and not in equal representation, and these were the results: 



As you can see, Sovereign Valruzia would have gotten a straight blocking majority (more than 200 seats) and together with the KPW they would lack a single seat to command an absolute majority as well. All of these issues would need to be addressed, as would be the matter of the judicial power, severely damaged during the Morawski firm rule.