Solentia

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Solentian constitution adopted two years after Gulnar's Revolution began
19 March 5635

Solentia has adopted a new constitution, two years after the death of Gulnar Malhotra sparked nationwide protests against the dictatorship of Khog Noorani. The new constitution was approved at the end of January but it becomes effective today as a symbolic gesture to mark the second anniversary of her death in police custody. The country’s prime minister Alamzeb Sumalani joined members of Malhotra’s family, as well as survivors of the Dhaafir al-Salehi University attack, at a ceremony to mark the occasion this morning.

Under the provisions of the new constitution, Solentia will become a federal parliamentary democracy with a popularly-elected president whose role will be primarily ceremonial. The country’s legislature will be unicameral, with members elected through a regionalised form of party-list proportional representation.

The most debated provision of the new Solentian constitution is undoubtedly its first article. It declares the country “is an Ahmadi republic”. The wording was devised as a compromise. The government had originally proposed the wording that “Ahmadism is the religion of the state”. Left-wing and secular parties fiercely opposed this. The compromise wording was sufficient to win the support of the liberal New Dawn for Democracy, though it was opposed by the much larger Social Democratic and Labour Party.

With the new constitution adopted, the constitutional assembly elected at the end of 5633 has been dissolved. The coalition government led by Sumalani will continue to function in the short term, before the first elections under the new constitution are held at the beginning of May. According to current opinion polling, Sumalani’s conservative Fazilat alliance is set to remain the largest political grouping. The overall picture is not yet clear though, due to differences in the voting system compared with the previous election.

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Sumalani’s coalition government secures slim majority
5 May 5635

Alamzeb Sumalani’s coalition government appears set to remain in power after winning the first set of legislative elections under Solentia’s new constitution. Sumalani’s four-party coalition won 102 of 200 seats in the unicameral Federal Assembly, providing the government with a majority of only four seats. Fazilat, the political alliance headed by Sumalani, is the largest party in the new legislature.

The newly formed Federal Assembly has fewer seats than the special constitutional assembly elected two years ago, and these elections were held under a different voting system. As a consequence, it is difficult to make direct comparisons between the results of the two elections. When considered altogether though, the results suggest continuity.

The two largest parties in the governing coalition, Fazilat and the Justice and Democracy Party, lost between 32 and 23 seats respectively. Despite losing a handful of seats, the Social Democratic and Labour Party established themselves as the principal opposition to the government by becoming the second largest party in the legislature.

Fortunately for the coalition government, the National Peasants and Workers' Movement experienced a significant jump in their vote share. The impressive performance has been linked to the personal appeal of their young leader Tofan Faqir, as well as the party’s successful lobbying for a new programme of subsidises for Solentian farmers.

Sumalani has promised to deliver a “national renaissance” with the electoral mandate delivered by to the coalition government. In spite of his rhetoric, the short term prospects for the Solentian economy remain dismal. After a period of relative boom following the collapse of the Noorani regime, economic growth has stalled and inflation has reappeared.

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Moretti Government installed: priority to foreign policy
The executive is preparing to organize the long-awaited state visit to Mordusia and a historic meeting with the Government of Solentia

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Constitutional amendment approved to strengthen regional governments
27 March 5663

After almost three years of political wrangling, the Federal Assembly has approved the so-called Dalur amendment to the Solentian constitution, the most significant since the constitution was adopted. The amendment would recognise the right of regional governments to operate armed forces separate from federal government oversight. Speaking after the vote concluded, Prime Minister Zorak Wassan said the Dalur amendment would “guarantee the regions freedom from dependence on the federal government”. Before it is adopted, the amendment will be subject to a referendum.

At the last general election, the Justice and Democracy Party emerged as the largest single political party and Wassan negotiated a coalition agreement with long-time political partners Fazilat and the National Peasants and Workers Movement. At the centre of this agreement was the Dalur amendment, named after the northern region which has spearheaded the movement for its adoption.

For over a decade, Dalur has been blighted by a low level insurgency waged by the Ahmadi fundamentalist group Taqdeer Sartiri. The region’s long-serving Fazilat leader has repeatedly complained about the ineffectiveness of the Solentian armed forces in dealing with the conflict and demanded that the regional government be given powers to raise its own armed forces.

Despite the coalition government’s comfortable legislative majority, the higher threshold required to approve a constitutional amendment meant Wassan needed the support of a patchwork of minor parties. Due to the resolute opposition of both major left-wing parties and also the ultraconservative Pakwali movement, the prime minister needed the votes of almost every other political party.

In the end, it was the sole representative of the Istalian People’s Party that provided the government with the final required vote. The precise agreement reached to secure the support of Fazio Alagona has not been made public. According to government sources, it is based on additional funding for fishing communities on the eastern coast.

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Left-wing coalition formed after months of negotiation
1 November 5686

Social Democratic and Labour Party leader Zar Bibi Askari is set to become only the second female prime minister in modern Solentian history. After seven months of negotiation, Askari announced this morning that she had reached an agreement with three other parties to form a left-wing coalition government. The announcement concludes an extended period of uncertainty in Solentian politics.

For the past half a century, three broadly conservative parties have dominated politics in the country: the Fazilat alliance, the Justice and Democracy Party, and the National Peasants and Workers Movement. In various combinations, these parties have governed in almost every coalition government and have become informally known as the triumvirate.

Earlier this year, the results of the most recent legislative election provided an unclear political outlook. The incumbent coalition government had become increasingly unpopular. Solentia’s economy had stagnated and the government failed to deliver on promised investment in rural infrastructure.

In response, voters turned to a variety of opposition political parties. Pakwali, an ultraconservative Ahmadi fundamentalist political movement, experienced their best ever national election result, winning seventeen seats. Askari’s party were the major beneficiaries though. Promising to implement a radical programme of economic renewal, they became the largest party in the Federal Assembly.

For the past seven months, negotiations have focused on reaching a compromise between the Askari’s left-wing allies and the liberal-minded New Dawn for Democracy. The moderate party has often played the role of kingmaker in coalition negotiations. The new governing partners share a commitment to secularism and economic reform, but there are plenty of disagreements. As a result, the stability of the new coalition remains to be seen.

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A loaf of bread
December 5736

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Can't seem to figure out what strikes me the most. The 9-year-old kid gulping a slice of bread like it's candy, or the dad's look. A broken man, wrinkles all over his face, barely 30 years of age. His late 20s side still lingers, visible only when the kid looks at him. A treasure of his enduring self that he keeps only for his son, the only other member of his exiled family.

Most kids of the West know nothing of life, except vanity. Even the offspring of the East, flashing their dance moves and cow-eyes on the world's social media, bickering about the self-created superficial troubles of the present as if they are the inventors of history's "firsts".

And while the East accuses the West of hypocrisy, they dance together on the world's theatrical stage of righteousness, barely able to hold down a foreign policy or communications doctrine that matters. And for all their bigotry, this man and his kid - and so many broken families and starving kids, roam the lands of Southeast Majatra like exiles in their own homes.

Khyber is a Turjak; his son, a Kansari bastard of a woman who was either Istalian or Dundorfian. Khyber could not remember. He was a bartender in the southeast, 9 years ago and nights, sometimes, ran wild with the bravado of Western visitors and tourists, who remained blissfully unaware of Solentia.

"She was the most beautiful woman I've ever seen", he says, in a broken Dudmani accent.

Of course, the woman has abandoned Khyber, for he was filth in the eyes of the civilised West. And no "civilised" woman of the East ever looked at him, either.

Khyber does temp jobs in logistics and manufacturing and lives in a van, with his son.

"Urzana Kargar", is what people call these impoverished Solentian nomads like Khyber and his son; "cheap labor" of the West and the East. They are the 9th generation of nomad workers.

And the sycophants of the world continue to shout and scream their ideals of equality, prosperity, peace and justice; year after year, decade after decade, century after century.

Khyber smiles, for the first time during our interview, at the word "Adalat".

Justice.

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Aloria
Majatran flavors in Aloria: Sohbat from Solentia
January 5737
https://forum.prtcy.com/thread-59-post-1...l#pid13566

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Dundorf
BREAKING: Massive car explosion in downtown Dunburg; 33 injured, 5 dead
January 5737
https://forum.prtcy.com/thread-23-post-1...l#pid13574