Bulletin d´Île de Romanhe 4

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(June 2005) Governing party suffers large defeat in elections. Government resigns. President in a bad mood.

(Port de Boiguehenneuc) The general parliamentary elections on June 26 have led to a major revolution in the country's politics. Governing party Floq Naxlopa d'Ile de Romanhe (the nationalist party of President Sirkit Sept) suffered what could be called a historic defeat in the 23 year history of the independent republic and went from 42 to 25 places in parliament (a total of 65 seats). The big winner was the Union Républicaine d'Île Romaine (liberal), which doubled its number of seats in parliament, from just 12 to 27 seats and thus unexpectedly became the largest party. The Floq Socialiste also went strong and went from 7 to 10 seats and party leader Felix Zjem Janumoy spoke in the capital Port de Boiguehenneuc to a crowd of people who celebrated the defeat of the government party. The remaining 3 seats went to independent candidates. The day after the announcement of the results, Prime Minister Rrokk offered the resignation of his government to the president, who was clearly very unhappy about the miserable performance of Rrokk and therefore gladly approved the dismissal. The Rrokk government did not last longer than 8 months and a disillusioned Pascal Rrokk said he would give up politics in the short term. President Sirkit Sept then asked Guillaume Keztil Surt from Union Républicaine and ordered him to form a new government as soon as possible, preferably in a coalition with the Floq Naxlopa d'Ile de Romanhe, but Keztil Surt had already indicated in advance that he would prefer to form a coalition with the socialists in spite of all differences in party politics, than to cooperate with the unpopular nationalists and thus ignored the advice of the president (whose mood didn´t become any better because of this).

The elections on Île de Romanhe have also been very quiet and in recent weeks only a few riots and other politically motivated disturbances were noted and the number of injured (and worse) was very low, at least for Île de Romanhe. The elections themselves went more or less perfectly. More than 60 percent of the voting population came to the polling stations and observers (sent out by the African Union) stated afterwards that the elections had expired without too many irregularities. The explanation for the somewhat lame election campaign is found by political commentators in the fact that there is general fatigue among the Ilya Romans about the lousy situation in the country and the blame for this is largely on the Floq Naxlopa d`Île de Romanhe, the party that has been in power ever since the independence in 1982. The past ten years have been characterized by economic decline and the ambitious economic program presented by the Rrokk government last year did not have the results as had been thought. Nonetheless, Guillaume Keztil Surt indicated that a future coalition government might partly take over this new economic policy, but with the necessary adjustments, since the socialist party is demanding a large number of reforms. The current isolation of the country must also be broken, an opening up of the country's economy is necessary to bring in the necessary investments and Île de Romanhe has to adopt an increasingly active international attitude, according to Keztil Surt.