News in brief from Île de Romanhe (2)

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This page contains a brief summary in English of international and national news from the republic of Île de Romanhe. For the English translation of Bulletin de Île de Romanhe, see; [1]. 

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2023

  • November - Prime Minister Adine Kergas-Naour and Foreign Minister Felix Zjem Janumoy attended the 23th summit of FICT which was held in Vítgarð, Yukland. At the meeting the delegations of the member states amongst others discussed the ongoing war in Gaza, but no final statement was made as it was obvious that the member states do have different opinions on this. According to this the prime minister clearly said Île de Romanhe is in favour of Israel.
  • July - The FICT Games 2023 in Tarmorya have been very succesful, as Sidónie Pleau won a gold medal (400 meter athletics), François Sirkit bronze (marathon) and much to the fans' delight, the Ilya Roman football team won almost all of its matches, beating Yukland with 1-0, Harrawi with 2-0, Adzhatia with 2-1 and only the last match (against Yutyrama) ended with 0-0. In the last match they won against Kaupelan resulting in a honorable third place and a bronze medal.
  • June - The governing coalition Union Républicaine (URIR) and Floq Kamzher Romanhe (FKR) lost the parliamentary elections of June 6 and Prime Minster Guillaume Keztil-Surt declared he and his government will resign. The main winner is the Parti pour le Progrès du Peuple (PPP), gaining 5 seats, but even the Floq Naxlopa d´Île de Romanhe (FNIR) and Floq Socialiste (FS) got more seats and now a coalition of FNIR, FS and PPP will form the new government with Adine Kergas-Naour (FNIR) as the new Prime Minister and Felix Zjem Janumoy (FS) as Foreign Minister. Jean Orange Forestier (PPP) is appointed as the new Minister of Internal Affairs
  • May - Prime minister Guillaume Keztil-Surt (URIR) and minister of Foreign Affairs François Thémarel-Kernès attended on May 5 the 21th summit of FICT in the Voskian city of Laxarmai. Main topics were the coming Games in Tarmorya and the current situation in the member states.
  • May - According to the latest polls the two governing parties URIR and FKR are likely to lose the coming parliamentary elections in June while FS, PPP and FNIR seem to go forward.

2022

  • June - Riots broke out in several cities in Île de Romanhe last month as a result of soaring fuel and food prices.

2021

  • November - President Guimarc Bonamy and Prime Minister Guillaume Keztil-Surt attended the climate summit in Glasgow in the UK.

2020

  • November The 16th meeting of the General Assembly of FICT was held on November 8 in Port de Boiguehenneuc. Main topics were a new system for the election of the (vice) Secretary General and proposals for a new logo for FICT. Also the situation due to corona was discussed.
  • November President Guimarc Bonamy sent a telegram to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris after their victory in the American presidential elections and congratulated him on behalf of the Ilya Roman people.
  • September The young composer Gavril Vauzé won in Kronenburg the Ripperda-Award for his composition “Les Malheurs Oubliés” for baritone and orchestra. According to the jury, the composition of Vauzé was an emotionally poignant and original work.
  • April The first case of corona has been detected on Île de Romanhe and the government has announced measures to limit the spread of the virus.
  • January On the last day of 2019 Île de Romanhe celebrated it´s 37th independence day with fireworks and a speech by president Bonamy.

2019

  • December 2019 One of the two coal power plants in Île de Romanhe was closed this month. According to the government it has become cheaper to replace the power plant by wind power and it is expected that the use of coal will be reduced even more in the coming years.
  • December 2019 The Ilya Roman athletes performed quite well att the fourth FICT Games in the republic of MAS in November. Cyprien Varq-Faroz won a silver medal (marathon), Sidónie Pleau also won silver (400 m athletics) and Lyonel Ondèl-Kernac bronze (triathlon).
  • November 2019 With the arrival of the second group of Ilya Roman refugees from South-Africa, the population of Île de Romanhe reached the number 70,000 inhabitants this month. In december a third group of 500 will return to our country and all together more than 1300 Ilya Romans decided this year to return to Île de Romanhe after the violence against immigrants in South-Africa earlier this year.
  • July 2019 Hard winds and heavy rainfall have caused a lot of damage to buildings and infrastructure in the last week. The weather forecast institute of Île de Romanhe expects that the extreme stormy weather will continue the whole week and the government has issued a warning to all inhabitants on the country side to seek shelter.
  • July 2019 Recently the coach of the national (male) footbal team, Peter Larsson (Marckonia) was fired and replaced by Jayden Boshoff from South Africa. The main reason, according to Thimard Mâchefer, president of the Ilya Roman Football Association, was that the Ilya Roman team hadn´t qualified for the African Football Championship that are held in Egypt this month.
  • June 2019 President Bonamy and foreign minister Thémarel-Kernès attended the 61th meeting of the AGL in the European country Pannonia.
  • June 2019 The ruling coalition of URIR and FKR suffered a significant loss in the parliamentary elections that were held on 5 June, but Prime Minister Guillaume Keztil-Surt will probably remain in office with the support of the PPP. The two government parties Union Républicaine and Floq Kamzher Romanhe (liberal peoples party) each lost 2 seats in the Azemble Romanhe. The FS (Floq socialiste) won 4 seats and the PPP (Parti pour le Progrès du Peuple) one seat.
  • May 2019 Former president Aristide Faroz-Zaran fled to South-Africa only one day before the public prosecutor had completed his investigation on Faroz-Zaran into fraud and bribe and issued an arrest warrant for him.

2018

  • June 2018 Guimarc Bonamy has won the second round in the presidential elections of June 15 and is the new president of Île de Romanhe. Bonamy got 60 % of the votes and his opponent François Thémarel-Kernès 40 %.
  • January The government of Île de Romanhe congratulates Mr Bautasars Kustādzas, who won the presidential elections in Voskia on January 28.
  • January 2018 The national election committee decided that the presidential elections will be held on June 8 this year. Current president Faroz-Zaran (FNIR) has officially stated that he will run for a second presidential term. His main opponents are likely to be the former prime minister Guillaume Keztil-Surt (URIR) and the current Foreign minster [François Thémarel-Kernès (FKR). Other candidates are Jean Orange Forestier, leader of the PPP (Parti pour le Progrès du Peuple) and possibly former prime minister and foreign minister Guimarc Bonamy, but this is still unclear. There are certain rumors though that he will stand as candidate for the socialist party (FS), which means that he will leave the national party (FNIR).

2017

  • November - The government of Île de Romanhe has not made any official statement about the recent change of power in Zimbabwe, and many inhabitants of our country believe that president Faroz-Zaran fears the same fate as mr. Mugabe.
  • November - The tenth summit of FICT was dominated by the unexpected scandal around the social-investment bank of FICT (FSIB), as it turned out that the bank had not funded any single project since 2016 and a motion, supported by our delegation and those of three other member states, was submitted to investigate the (mal)functioning of the bank and even its director.
  • June 2017 At the last day of the FICT Games in Kaupelan it became clear that the Ilya Roman athletes did do quite well, as Cyprien Varq-Faroz, who ran the marathon won a silver medal, while Lionel Grand-Bois also won a silver medal in swimming 100 m freestyle on June 15. Even the men´s football team, although unfortunately losing against Amargo in the semi-finals, had the best result ever, the 4th place. The Ilya Roman athletes were welcomed by a huge happy crowd when they arrived at the national airport.
  • May 2017 In August the 59th conference of the AGL will be held in the city of Port Augurq.
  • May 2017 Due to the fact that Port de Boiguehenneuc is the cultural capital of the AGL this year, a large exhibition about 30 years of AGL-history was opened in the national museum. Also a couple of artists and writers from several countries of the AGL performed this autumn.
  • April The Azemble Romanhe voted in favor of both the Treaty Of Aralethe and Jarjana and decided to ratify these treaties on April 10.

2016

  • August 2016 - The outcome of the referendum about the membership of the AGL turned out to be a victory for those who wanted to stay within the AGL; 61 % of the voters voted for membership, 36% against (3 % of the votes were not valid). As a result of this, president Faroz-Zaran fired prime-minister Keztil-Surt and replaced him by the relatively unknown Mervin Urzine.
  • July 2016 - Om July 30 a referendum will be held on whether Île de Romanhe will remain a member of the AGL or not. The government says the membership of this organization has not been of much use for the country and also the outcome of the Supreme Court of the AGL was a disappointment for the government and a reason to question the membership. The Supreme Court decided last week to reject the Ilya Roman demands to declare the outcome of the elections on the AGL summit in March invalid.
  • May 2016 - The Azemble Romanhe (Ilya Roman parliament) ratified on May 25 the new Free Trade Agreement of Bizet.
  • May 2016 - The Ilya Roman government has appointed mr. Thimard Bonamy as the new Ilya Roman ambassador for FICT.
  • May 2016 - President Faroz-Zaran and prime minister Keztil-Surt attended the 7th General Assembly of FICT which was held in Bizet, the capital of the republic of MAS. According to the president and the prime minister, it was a good summit, as finally a solution was found for the ongoing issue of the FFTA, by just abolishing and replacing it by a new free trade agreement on a voluntary basis, two states, Pannonia and Amargo, became member of FICT and the establishment of the Secretariat of Scientific Cooperation (FSSC).
  • May 2016 - President Faroz-Zaran and prime minister Keztil-Surt attended the World Economic Forum on Africa in Kigali, Rwanda from May 11 to 13.
  • March 2016 - The government of Île de Romanhe opposes the outcome of the elections on the AGL-summit and wants the Supreme Court of the AGL to declare the results of these elections invalid, because they are seen as a result of the disparagingly attitude of several other member states of the AGL. Other sources say though that this just became an issue used by president Faroz-Zaran in order to raise his extremely low popularity figures.
  • March 2016 - In Port de Boiguehenneuc the new bus station in the west of the city was opened.
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