Nadiya

[Svetlana]

Monarchists manage to narrowly win the referendum with 56% of the votes as 79,6% turnout to vote, the constitutional convention set to begin defining the legal limits of the Tsarina: return of the old system?

Rodashyam, Radin. Today Nadiyans headed to the polls to decide whether or not they wanted to restore the monarchy after its abolition by the treaty of Petrograd, the referundum was one of many demands the Tsarina and Princesses Association of Nadiya requested from the Dovhan administration to secure a super majority in the NGA. So for the past year, the PTAN started pressuring the government to launch the referundum shortly after the start of the Constitutional Convention, even tho there was some resistance from SR politicians who argued that the current administration had already secured a majority and didn't need to have a supermajority, the Nadiyan Commission for Electoral Fairness and Transparency has organized the referundum in two parts. Part one consisted of asking the citizens if they wanted the future unified Nadiyan state to be a republic or a monarchy, the second part was asking what style of monarchy they would like between a ceremonial monarch with no powers whatsoever, a monarch with the power to dissolve the legislature but only if asked to by the head of government, or a monarch with the power to dissolve parliament at will and appoint a HoG, or none of the options above which either meant an absolute monarchy or no monarchy. The different sides held a 5 month long campaign trying to sway as much voters as possible with the monarchists even using cultural events such as the Zoetergraaf poem festival to spread their agenda. Ultimately on the day of the vote, the NCEFT reported a  79,6% turnover with most of it being in Kozaki and Radin who both reported an average of 87% turnout, the results of the referundum shocked everybody as the monarchists won with a slim majority of 56% of the votes while the republicans secured 42% and blank votes were 2%. As for the monarchical system part, 98,2% of voters wanted a monarch with no power whatsoever and for it be strictly ceremonial while the other options barely manage to secure 1%of the vote. Seeing the results of the referendum, the constitutional convention has announced that they will begin discussing the system under which a monarch would reign Nadiya according to the results of the referendum, however they didn't mention if they would abolish the current ban on male royals that makes every male royal illegible to the throne as established by the Petrograd treaty, now Nadiyans can only watch toward Volosgrad as constitutionalists will most likely jump at each other throat when it comes to the monarchy.