Haalsian Enquirer: Making Amends

==First Amendment is Amended After Imperial Chancellor Meeting==
State Chancellor Soleimani and Imperial Chancellor James Brokenshire met yesterday in Corrintrin, ostensibly to discuss the 5 billion fall budget extension that the Royal State of Haals was promised by the Imperial Treasury Secretary, although clearly there was another topic on the Imperial Chancellor's mind, because today the Haalsian Assembly passed an adjustment to the First Amendment of the Haalsian Constitution over the loud opposition of pro-independence parties. The new language treats the recall election as though it were a motion of no confidence passed by the legislature rathen than legally binding the Federal Representative to abide by the results, as was originally intended. This doesn't change much in practice, but the fact that the Representative of the Falleen Monarch is no longer personally bound to the results must be meaningful to those who support the Imperial power structure. They've additionally added the following clause at the end to give the Federal Representative more discretion over when to use his power to dissolve parliament: 
Originally posted by First Amendment, Section Five:
V. If, due to another unforeseen or unmentioned circumstance, the Federal Representative feels compelled to dissolve the Haalsian Assembly, he or she is able to do so.
Many critics have blasted this move by State Chancellor Soleimani as an unnecessary concession to an overreaching and overzealous Imperial Chancellor. The Haalsian Opposition has pointed out that the new language takes the teeth out of what otherwise would have been a first-of-its-kind democratization of the Federal Representative, and has used this to bolster their case to cut Haals loose from the unrepresentative Falleen Monarchy. Those who voted in favor of this change, including Soleimani, his coalition partners, and the pro-Falleen parties, have insisted that, while some of them may have preferred the original version, this new language was necessary to end the feud between the state and the Imperial Government, without getting into specifics. Some have speculated that Soleimani feared a Falleen Court may have overturned the law wholesale, or that by keeping the law as-is, the state would have lost its desperately-needed budget extension. Whatever the case may be, the Recall Amendment will remain with no further challenges from Corrintrin, but that doesn't mean as much as it did just 48 hours ago.
Category:The Imperial Constitution