“Perhaps the most ambitious government in Flemish history” to be installed

League/Libertarian government to be installed

The Ivory Tower, the Flemish president’s official residence, has announced that a new government will be installed on Monday, after several days of negotiations on an undisclosed location resulted in an coalition agreement between president Erwin V.H.’s federalist League for the Third Republic and Roeland C.’s Libertarian Party. This means that former president Mateo Diez Mattiassen’s Democrats are now almost completely certain of being relegated to the opposition benches, although despite the claims made by the Flanders Post the current president did contact the ‘mateists’ but to no avail.

Nevertheless, the President stated his opinion that a coalition with the Libertarians was the politically more interesting option anyway, seeing that their proposals during the electoral campaign were much more innovating than those of the Democrats. What the president called “one of the most, if not the most, ambitious governmental agreement in the country’s history” contains several proposals which entail a break with certain age old Flemish traditions, most notably:

1.       an evolution from a highly centralised state into a federal one

2.       the possible adoption of a bitcoin based economic system, parallel to the SCUE system

3.       the slow build-up of a military presence, in contrast to the age old Flemish pacifist (and largely isolationist) policy

Flemish foreign policy is likely to maintain its tendency to seek a closer alliance with the member states of the Council of Free Nations, of which Flanders now aims to become a ‘junior partner’ somewhere during the next few months. Other parts of the governmental agreement include cutting in the bureaucratic red tape and reinvigorating the nation’s cultural development.

Jingdese propaganda machine abuses unclarity about government’s composition

The Ivory Tower has yet been unable to specify who exactly will become part of this new coalition government. Unconfirmed rumours have it that the League and the Libertians will be joined by Luc van de Bakoven from the Future Party, a kinsman of Zeeburg’s leader. The officious propaganda channel of Jingdao has been using this uncertainty to spew ludicrous claims about the Flemish president being part of some sort of secret cabal called the Mystic Society. While this is treated as a joke by the Flemish population and those of the civilised nations of Micras, it is to be feared that populations with less opportunities for education - such as those of the feudal society Jingdao self-admittedly is – will not be able to separate truth from fiction.

While certain people understandable fear that a Jingdese unification with Shireroth might destabilise the latter nation (with which Flanders unfortunately hasn’t developed official relations yet, although this will hopefully be realised in the near future), many also hope that this would provide the Jingdese masses some economic development and advances in education and therefore an entry into modern society. Some are even disappointed that Shirekeep doesn’t seem likely to gain an even firmer control on this West-Cibolan backwater. Of course, nobody will say this out loud, given the Flemish government’s official position that relations with the Zjincheng regime should be normalised.