Most Serene State of Curosant 2024 General Election
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(Please note that I backdated the news story by several hours because releasing such momentous news in the wee hours of the morning (00:11, in this case) would look horrible.)
Primat Urbain V Announces General Election
Former theocracy transitioning to more secular government
Avignon (21 July 17:35 CST; Coularon) The Most Serene State of Curosant will be holding its first ever open General Election over a minimum of two rounds on 3 August 2024 and 17 August 2024, with round one’s top three vote-getters advancing to round two and a third round to be held on 31 August 2024 in the event of round two’s results being within a 3% margin of error. Additionally, unless a party’s leader is otherwise specified, its leader and candidate are the same person. While the Head of State from another nation may cast a representative ballot for that nation in each round, those votes will have minimal impact on the final vote percentages. Finally, the Mouvement pour l’indépendance Nationale, or National Independence Movement, elected not to participate in the General Election due to lack of nationwide support for its core tenant of leaving the European Union.
Coalition Royaliste (CR) (Royalist Coalition) (Reds)
Views: Deeply pro-EU royalists who want to permanently separate the Church of Curosant from the State and transition Curosant from the nuiem [nɥɛ̃] to the euro
Candidate: Jeanne-Marie Valcher
Resulting government: Principality with Grand Prince as monarch
Proposed name: Principauté Très Sérénissime de Curosant [pʁɛ̃.si.po.te tʁɛ se.ʁe.ni.sim də ky.ʁɔ.sɑ̃] (Most Serene Principality of Curosant)Front Republicain National (FRN) (National Republican Front) (Yellows)
Views: Anti-royalist wanting to turn Curosant into a semi-presidential republic and permanently separate the Church of Curosant from the State
Candidate: Charlène-Xavier Robespierre
Resulting government: Semi-presidential republic with President as Executive
Proposed name: République Très Sérénissime de Curosant [ʁe.py.blik] (Most Serene Republic of Curosant)Ligue Socialiste du Travail (LST) (Socialist Labour League) (Violets)
Views: TML Thought (pro-EU market socialism with euro as Curosant's currency)
Candidate: Thierry-Maxime Leroux
Resulting government: One-party communist state with General Secretary as Executive
Proposed name: République des Travailleurs Très Sérénissime de Curosant [də tʁa.va.jœʁ] (Most Serene Workers’ Republic of Curosant)Parti Vert (PV) (Greens)
Views: Environmentalist
Candidate: Avril-Antoinette Javert
Resulting government: Principality with Grand Prince as monarch
Proposed name: Principauté Très Sérénissime de CurosantToularon [tu.la.ʁɔ̃] (Oranges)
Views: Church of Curosant-unaffiliated conservatives who want to turn Curosant into a hereditary absolute monarchy and keep the nuiem as Curosant's currency
Candidate: Ariel-Robert-Charles Benoît
Resulting government: Kingdom with King as monarch
Proposed name: Royaume Très Serein de Curosant [ʁwa.jɔm ... sə.ʁɛ̃] (Most Serene Kingdom of Curosant)Union des Saints (US) (Saints’ Union) (Whites)
Views: Conservatives who want to keep the Church of Curosant entwined with the State to some extent
Leader: Primat Urbain V
Candidate: Druid Jacques-Michel Pétain, Évêque de Québec
Resulting government: Semi-presidential republic with President as Executive
Proposed name: Très Sainte République de Curosant [sɛ̃t] (Most Holy Republic of Curosant)
Note: If the Union des Saints wins, the current Governorate of the Most Serene State will officially separate from the Church of Curosant while a provision guaranteeing Union des Saints 20% of the vote will be enshrined in Curosant's constitution. -
Acting Président Hébert Announces Polling Times
Polls to open
Avignon (2 Aug 12:46 CST; Coularon) Louis-Xavier-Etienne Hébert, who is both Président of the Governorate of the Church of Curosant and Acting Président of Curosant, has called for the first round polling in the General Election to occur at the times specified below on 3 August.
Head of State (representative): 00:00-23:59 (for maximum participation)
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