Royal Gazette - Outrage in the Senate!

**The Royal Gazette |** *His Most Excellent Majesty So Requests His People Remain Informed*

The largest party within the Senate, The Cavaliers, have accused the Prime Minister of defying democracy for appointing two failed candidates to the cabinet. Runner-up in the executive election, Pavle Nanava, was first appointed Minister of Industry and recently, the candidate who finished last, The Duke de Cröy, was nominated for Finance Minister. Senator Zviad Chkheidze, who leads the horsemen in the Senate, took to the floor and spoke of his outrage. The Senator claimed the nominations was "mockery of the electorate" and called the cabinet a "political graveyard for rejected and failed politicians". Disgust was also shared by Senators Garegin Pashayan (who was The Cavaliers nominee for Senate President) and Serzh Kocharyan.

The disgruntled Senator Chkheidze did not stop his rage in the Senate, he called a townhall meeting in Ochamchire, Steini. (As pictured) Chkheidze held the open meeting where he, and fellow Senators, gave passionate speeches about the state of Nydia and it's executive. The Senator used this opportunity to tell the gathered community, "the fresh-faced Prime Minister of this fresh-faced democracy first took his time in moulding a Cabinet. The Senate had one nominee to consider over several weeks, if not months. That in itself was insulting to the electorate. Over such a huge span of time, you would have thought the Prime Minister was spending his time finding experts in the fields he needed. Quite the opposite. What he has done, as a further insult and jab to the electorate, is found those least qualified for the jobs. Two failed candidates who were rejected by the electorate have been picked up and thrown in. Funnily enough - the candidate who finished bottom, yes, the one with the least amount of votes because of his radical and out-of-touch views, was given the most important cabinet position. That of Finance Minister. What a disgrace, how disgusting."

Senator Garegin Pashayan took a different approach to that of his leader. The Senator used a platform outside the Senate to rally a crowd which grew throughout his speech. His outrages began as he attacked the Radical Republican Revolutionary Party: "In one silly fashion The Cavaliers have secured a victory. By exposing the Radical Socialists for their hypocrisy they have voted against their own nominee; rather embarrassing for them! Socialists cant support socialists because the sound-mind among us are not stupid to fall for it. What gets me more than the fact failed candidates are being hand picked for the cabinet is that a radical is being appointed Finance Minister! Don't you agree? They got the least amount of votes and their senatorial wing also fails. Yet they are being put into the forefront of the cabinet? Nationalise, high taxes, big government, undue burden, inspections, hard-core left. Everything YOU and I voted against. It just doesn't add up."

In his first major criticism, all the Prime Minister had to say was "I was elected Prime Minister for a number of reasons". Such response shows weak reasoning skills from the newly elected Prime Minister. His inability to respond well to criticism will lead the Prime Minister down a very bumpy path, one which will surely lead to him losing at the next election. The Prime Minister is still yet to form a close relationship with a Senate Majority and there seems to be little loyalty from any major party, beside his own party. His legislative agenda will be very difficult to pass if he continues on his current path.