2033 Libirachi Coup d'état

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The **2033 Libirachi Coup d'état** took place between July 26 and July 27, 2033 and saw the removal of President Damien Salamander from office and the placement of Minister of Propaganda Karyn Voor as his replacement, with the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order seizing control of nearly all offices of state in the process and as such brought about the *de-facto* ending of the party political system which had dominated both the Imperial Republic of Libirachi (1852 - 2019) and the Fox Dynasty (2019 -) since the formation of the first Constitution of the Libirachi Empire in 1852.

Described as a self coup, the coup d'état begun with the enactment of the Voor Proclamation on July 26, 2033, which ordered the arrests of vast swathes of the congressional Revolutionary Party and orchestrated the appointment of new congress-people loyal to COMPNOR, before forces of the Imperial Security Bureau and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection stormed the Hall of Revolution on July 27th and arrested President Damien Salamander under the charge of "Conspiracy to overthrow the Empress Fox", recalling all congress-people to a special session of congress where a conformation vote was held to impeach and remove Salamander from his office as president. Subsequently, a motion by attorney general Lauren Salamander resulted in COMPNOR leader Karyn Voor being nominated and subsequently inaugurated as the new president thanks to the COMPNOR agents and loyalists within the Revolutionary party.

As one of the most significant events of the New Imperial Era, the 2033 coup d'état took place over two days under the instruction of Empress Penny Fox, who's personal relations with President Damien Salamander significantly soured following the 2030 Libirachi Presidential Election and and Salamander's turn towards independent government after consolidating his power, making a break from Empress Fox's New-Think doctrine in 2030 with the appointment of Revolutionary Party loyalist Ross Kenanson to the post of Defence Secretary, driving a rift between Empress and President of the Libirachi Empire. As such, the Empress Fox ordered her ever-loyal Commission for the Preservation of the New Order to overthrow and replace president Salamander with a new administration supportive of New-Think under the leadership of COMPNOR leader Karyn Voor.

Having replaced a majority of Libirachi National Congress members in order to secure the election of Propaganda Minister Karyn Voor, the coup forces secured the backing of the Empress Fox and Voor was able to take over the remainder of Salamander's third term, initiating the Karyn Voor I Cabinet on July 27, 2033. Following the completion of her first term, Voor formed a second cabinet and continued the process of removing members of the Revolutionary party from political life in the Fox Dynasty; her second administration was a coalition of Revolutionary and COMPNOR members, and the six-term chairperson of the National Congress, Li Zhanshu, was removed from his position and replaced by COMPNOR loyalist Duchess Eleija Longwood.

## History

 **Electoral History**2033 Libirachi Presidential Election • 2035 Libirachi National Congress Election • 2035 Libirachi Presidential Election • 2040 Libirachi National Congress Election

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As part of a growing fracture between President Salamander and Empress Penny Fox in the early 2030s, the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order, more specifically the Imperial Security Bureau, began arresting and detaining members of the Revolutionary party in order to bring control of the party within the remit of COMPNOR as part of her New-Think ideology, whilst Salamander resisted much of the attempts although discovered that COMPNOR was loyal to the empress first and foremost, leading to a re-shuffling of the Imperial Cabinet following the 2030 Libirachi Presidential Election in order to fill it with those loyal to the president rather than the empress.

Leading to a split between the executive and the legislature, this divide led to COMPNOR and the Imperial Ministry of Propaganda, under the leadership of Minister Karyn Voor, beginning a slow centralisation of power, using forces such as the ISB and Imperial Intelligence to slowly purge the ranks of the Revolutionary party. Described as a self coup, the coup d'état begun with the enactment of the Voor Proclamation on July 26, 2033, which ordered the arrests of vast swathes of the congressional Revolutionary Party and orchestrated the appointment of new congress-people loyal to COMPNOR, before forces of the Imperial Security Bureau and the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection stormed the Hall of Revolution on July 27th and arrested President Damien Salamander under the charge of "Conspiracy to overthrow the Empress Fox", recalling all congress-people to a special session of congress where a conformation vote was held to replace President Salamander, leading to the selection of Karyn Voor as the new president thanks to the COMPNOR agents within the Revolutionary party. Detaining President Salamander on the morning of July 27, the Libirachi National Congress was recalled to a special session on the evening of the same day, voting to officially confirm Voor as the new president, although in spite of this, the Revolutionary party (partly filled with COMPNOR loyalists) ended up split in their vote, with at least 700 votes from within the party being cast for the incumbent president rather than for Voor.

With the Congress of the Libirachi National Congress voting on July 27, Empress Penny Fox appointed Karyn Voor as president for the remainder of president Salamander's third term, allowing her to take control of the Salamander III Cabinet and form the Voor I Cabinet. Despite being touted as a democratic election, the voting proceedings took place in the Libirachi National Congress, with the Revolutionary Party holding 2199 out of 2900 votes, meaning that the incumbent president would win regardless of the votes of the National Front coalition of parties, each of which is also controlled by the government; the 2033 election was notable for the large amount of voting not following party lines and much of the National Front abandoned it's candidate, the 85 year old Zhang Dejiang, in favour of one of the Revolutionary party candidates.

## See Also

* Commission for the Preservation of the New Order
* Central Commission for Discipline Inspection
* Libirachi Revolutionary Party
* Libirachi National Congress