THE NEWS OF THE LAST SEVERAL WEEKS IN RODRENON
For the last month or so, the current Seneschal, Stomath Holm has been the target of several extremist terrorist attacks. One featuring a car bomb. The rise of the threat has made Stomath Holm question his very safety in the office of the Seneschal. Unfortunately, at the same time, the Federal Oratory is putting pressure on the current Supervisor, Narder Drysav of the Democratic Security Bureau. It was only last year when the Democratic Security Bureau was created to protect and preserve the democratic process. The Federal Oratory is enraged by the seemingly overwhelming failure of the DSB.
A few weeks ago, in the Federal Oratory Election, the Plebeian National Party took control of the Chamber of Tribunes and thus was the new Lower Prepotency. This is attributed to their party leader, Rewis Dairhaym as he gave a riveting speech on how he will dismantle the Democratic Security Bureau and put into place a stronger security policy. At the same time, the Plebeian Nationals became the leading party in the Chamber of Prelates minority thus becoming the Upper Opposition. The Plebeian National Party, in general, now held more seats than the current Seneschal's own party, the Social Union Party, which only has the Upper Prepotency, but it is a coalition with the Traditional Hope Party, and the two often disagree. Now that Rewis Dairhaym has emerged from the recent election, as the power behind the Federal Oratory, it became very difficult for the current administration to enforce it's own policies.
It became worse, when after the election, Rewis Dairhaym applied for the office of Seneschal itself. As Rewis Dairhaym had had a particularly successful term as a dukedom governor once, he was immediately inducted as a member of the Council of Governor-Perfects. It is in this council, where the Seneschal is elected from amongst this body. It was a week and a half ago, when the application was accepted and the election took place. It resulted in three consecutive ties from elections that took only two days apart. Eventually, Stomath kept his administration, but by an uncomfortably close margin. Unfortunately in Rodredt politics, it seems that the current government is remarkably divided and thus quite ineffective in passing legislation without hours of debate and confrontation.
The Results of the 2014 Federal Oratory Election
Chamber of Tribunes:
Lower Prepotency - the Plebeian National Party
Lower Opposition - the Social Union Party and the Humanist Party
Chamber of Prelates:
Upper Prepotency - the Social Union Party and the Traditional Hope Party
Upper Opposition - the Plebeian National Party
The Results of the 2014 Federal Executive Election
Council of Helms:
Stomath Holm & the Social Union Party Government
In the end, the Democratic Security Bureau is given one more chance to provide swift discovery and capture of those who threaten the democratic process, in which in this case, are terrorists attempting assassination of the Seneschal. Unfortunately, with this current gridlock in the current political scene, it seems that public dissatisfaction will only grow and that Stomath Holm's days are numbered either politically or mortally.
On the other side, a greater level of poverty and an already heavier focus on the defense budget than on the agriculture budget, has brought a various level of disdain from the people. Which lies a deeply unsettling theory that a circle of dysfunction within the political system of Rodrenon has occurred.
The President of the National Academic Organization, Professor Evewyn Hancey, proposes that the government had failed to deal appropriately with the rising poverty levels, sparking somewhat violent displays of government dissatisfaction, which led to elections that led to government gridlock. This all resulted to the government's inability to pass legislation that could rectify the previous policies on rising poverty levels all in the name of political game. Her report on this matter remained mostly ignored by the public and placed under great scrutiny by those who are more nationalistic in view.
Regardless of this matter, Rodrenon has mostly remained in this situation of political dissatisfaction. The only new activity is the rising pressure on the King to act. At the moment, the most conceivable way any piece of legislation is to be passed is through a royal decree by the King. However, it remains too controversial and the King has reportedly decided to remain neutral for the time being. But during the period of the three consecutive ties in the Federal Executive Elections, a spike in terrorism directed towards politicians, resulted in the King ordering all representatives of the state to be placed in the immediate protection of the State Bureau's Security Branch. After the final conclusive Federal Executive Election results, the representatives of the state, returned to their positions.
Rodrenon is at the moment politically dissatisfied.