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Transparency NGO OpenTriad demands opening of Clenonberg files after waves of solidarity protests; VVP in chaotic search for presidential candidate
February 5673


President Ossel at her presumptive last public appearance as president of the Three Republics

What has started as a rather “common” wave of memorial events to remember the chaotic transition between the original Dual Republic and the Lackmann regime, has now developed into a political drama reaching both the floor of the Senate as well as all popular social media platforms. Rumors from all over the place have caused the case to be present in the collective minds of the Triad citizens and it seems like the coming elections in may will be influenced by this unfolding spectacle. After initial interest was perpetuated by both traditional and modern media, large public interest groups like the NGO OpenTriad, which usually petitions for less governmental secrecy, have started to persue the mysterious disappearance of the venerated president Vanessa zum Clenonberg.

The Centrist parties have managed to gain political capital from these events which in addition to their already reinvigorated momentum from their popular stances on federalization see their polling numbers rising in recent weeks. Incumbent president Siske Ossel, which has already been quiet for months on end, has now officially ended her party bid for a third term sending the conservative VVP into a frantic search for a replacement. The most likely candidate is Robert Kooi-Oppensteiner, who is known for his critical messages to the government during his term as a high ranking official in the ministry of the interior, which also makes him a good choice to deal with the current electoral interests of the day as he is knowledgeable about the procedures of the security forces and public order policy of the Three Republics. Analysts call him a dedicated internal opponent of the incumbent Osselite conservatives as well as the Thallerists, he has repeatedly criticized his own party for their crypto-thallerist tendencies and has stated that if he were to accept the presidential ticket from the VVP it would be a mandatory condition that they would support a different coalition within the Senate.

In any case, it appears that dramatic shifts in the political landscape are going to dominate the looming democratic process and many reformers are hopeful that a Kooi-Oppensteiner presidency would be the necessary impulse for a structural reform of the Triad.