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Institutionalists Set to make Major Changes to Kalistan
"Most Significant reforms in years" set to move through the Assembly
Kaliburg, Ananto
September 30, 5146


Nadine Bennots, the incoming Premier of the Republic speaks to Ashe Thompson of the Ananto Grower's Union on the eve of the IPoK's victory in snap elections this month

"We come into office with a mandate for reform," were the words of IPK's Nadine Bennots, after her young Party was awarded an uncontested Unanimity in recent snap elections. Bennots, who heads the recently formed Institutionalist Party of Kalistan, is set to become Premier of the Republic as soon as the Government Bill clears. It is expected to sail through with no opposition.

The reforms the Institutionalists have begun floating involve everything from removing the last vestiges of previous Communist Rule to abolishing the Republic in favor of a monarchy. "Over the centuries, our problem in Kalistan has not been war or famine. We live in a land of abundance. Instead, our problem has been with extremists from both the Left and the Right feeling like Kalistan should be their little social experiment. Most nauseating are right-wing elements who seek to institute economic liberalism, while bringing the hammer of state authority down upon the rights of the people. We know freedom is not a Socialist thing, and at any rate, the Socialists have vanished themselves, as they have done regularly throughout our history. But the people of the Institutionalist Party would like some consistency in our government."

Bennots and other Party leaders have declared the Assembly a "caretaker transition authority" charged with alteration of the Kalistani National Regime and the restoration of the Imperial structure that at least nominally existed in Kalistan until it was abolished in 4056. "We are looking at ways to preserve the people centered focus of the Republic, while restoring an imperial role to the Head of State. This includes re-establishing the House Ananto, and moving the neglected Districts into the Dutchy system." The Institutionalist leader noted a long history of Imperial rule in Kalistan, and argued that it was functionally similar to the operations of the Republic of Kalistan. "There was a National Assembly, there was Head of State elections to fill the seat when no emperor sat, etc. But our goal is to bring stability to our government and prevent the effects of these rotten ephemeral Parties who periodically ravage our state with their idiotic and ill conceived ideology."

Bennots did not lay out a time table for transition, but, "This is what we are doing. And we want to take care to balance everything out so we don't end up with some nutcase inbred lunatic who leads our country off a cliff who we can't get rid of without a revolution." Other changes Bennots proposed involve the re-establishment of hereditary titles, a possible alteration of the Flag and closer ties with Lourenne.