Locals tear down the flags of the overthrown self-declared Hasperan Republic and replace them with flags of Daredland after the return of Daredi rule, central government sends PLFWCD politicians to serve as interim authorities of returned territories
Flag of the Daredi Confederation
Flag of the defunct self-declared Hasperan Republic
It has been almost four days since the formerly occupied territories of Haspera have been liberated from the takeover of separatists who resorted to violence in their final days which only sped up their end. And for these almost four days the people have been celebrating. One of very symbolic gestures figuratively and literally has been the tearing down of the flags of the defunct self-declared Hasperan Republic all across the de-occupied territories since Daredland took back control de facto by ousting the separatist leadership with allied military support. People have been tearing down separatist flags and replacing them with flags of the Daredi Confederation. The rejoicing crowds on the streets of liberated territories had nothing but Daredi flags with them for all these days since the fall of the self-declared Hasperan Republic.
The Daredi Confederation restored de facto control over the territories formerly occupied by the self-declared Hasperan Republic through a military takeover by an allied military coalition nearly four days ago. The following day the lower house National Council and upper house Council of States of the United Confederal Assembly voted to dissolve the self-declared Hasperan Republic, remove the status of occupied territories from liberated territories and restore Daredi sovereignty over them. With this step Daredland restored control over the entirety of Haspera de jure too. Since then there has been another question left concerning those territories. Since the separatists who were overthrown and apprehended were the only de facto authority over those territories that means that their removal has created a power vacuum. Which is why the Daredi government had to appoint temporary local authorities over in the liberated territories before new ones could be elected in new local elections under Daredi law.
Citizens over in the liberated territories of Haspera insisted that they will only accept PLFWCD members as temporary local authorities of their parts of the region. By the opinion of many the LPM-led government has discredited itself by not only overlooking the uprising of the people in what used to be the self-declared Hasperan Republic but they have also violated the constitution by allowing the populist Klare Sicht political alliance take so many positions in the present central government. That’s despite the Party for Central Approach (PCA) and the Social Liberal Party (SLP) which make up the Klare Sicht alliance not having garnered enough votes to be in governing posts. They simply negotiated with LPM and climbed the political latter like the Legion of Germanic Daredland (LGD) party did before the Flaming Revolution. Local of liberated territories also say that the LPM-led government has discredited itself with the controversial Weniges peace plan authored by the Confederal Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Daredi Confederation. Many see it as surrendering Daredland’s occupied territories in Wenigberg and people living there to Englean occupation and people living in newly liberated Hasperan territories feel a lot of solidarity with compatriots there. But locals clarified that they are not dedicated fans of PLFWCD either.
After finishing scolding LPM and Klare Sicht, without mentioning the GU, citizens of the liberated Hasperan territories said that PLFWCD has discredited itself when they led the previous government and were forced by the populace to end their term early over corruption, mismanagement and overall ineffectiveness. Many also see PLFWCD as part of the ‘old nomenclature’ and who have discredited themselves by being part of this LPM-led government instead in the opposition to it even if they were elected. No matter how charismatic Franz Potesinan may be his charm is wearing off. Potesinan was in the government before the Flaming Revolution, PLFWCD coalition led by his WCND party led the previous government and are now part of this LPM-led government no matter how critical they might try to act. And yet the citizens in the liberated Hasperan territories prefer PLFWCD as ideologically closer and as lesser of two evils.
The United Confederal Assembly voted to appoint politicians from PLFWCD as temporary authorities of municipalities and local governments in parts of Haspera that had been liberated from separatist control. And yet the question of local elections now stands. Will there be exclusive elections under Daredi law with Daredi parties in the reincorporated areas? First Vice President of the Council of States of the Daredi Confederation Markus Thill suggested that his Social Liberal Party (SLP) and the entire Klare Sicht alliance believes that it would be better to declare snap local elections in the entire Daredi Confederation or even full national or confederal elections.
“Yes. This nation is diverse in many ways. We are a federation, a confederation, you name in. Our regions and states are largely autonomous from the center and differ among each other. But just think about how long have the people in the liberated territories lived under the separatists. It was like a different world for them. So staging separate elections there. Not even separate elections in Haspera but only in those parts of Haspera that were controlled by the self-declared Hasperan Republic. That would not help reincorporate those people back into the rest of Daredland very soon and move along with the rest of the nation. So in order for that to happen let us stage local elections all over Daredland. Or better yet snap national or confederal elections. We are basically giving our citizens a gift here. If enough of you indeed don’t trust LPM that much anymore this is your chance to replace them sooner. Or maybe that’s just a bunch of loud voices in a silent majority imitating public opinion. That’s when we’ll know the truth. So the position of Klare Sicht is snap national elections in the Daredi Confederation and we will promote that to LPM and the rest of the government.” – Markus Thill, First Vice President of the Council of States of the Daredi Confederation (SLP)