Daily Mail: Retirement and Succession

**City of Vanaza, Capital of the Kingdom of Nydia |** At the beginning of this year, our nation held it’s first elections for the Office of the Prime Minister of His Majesty’s Government. Mr. Vartanian, who became the first to declare his victory, came in third, unfortunately, and was unable to be qualified for the final round of elections. In our nation, elections for the Prime Minister are held by round. The top two candidates who receive enough votes will go on to a second round, and the field will be continuously slimmed down.

In our first election, Mr. Dro Njde of the Fatherland Front party, won by a slim margin of 5.4%, officially becoming the first Prime Minister-elect of Nydia until the proper ceremony can be held for his swearing in to the office. The Fatherland Front is a neo-authoritarian party, running on the preservation of the monarchy, and of the place of the Church and God in Nydia. Fortunately, thanks to Mr. Njde, we have been saved, although narrowly, from the evils of a socialist regime aided and abedded by the known deceiver, Noe Tengiz.

However, there is more news concerning Nazar Vartanian. Vartanian was a lawyer before the war, aswell as a strong advocate, albeit in secret to the authorities at the time, of Nydian secession and independence. During the war, he became a leader of Vanazan locals, fighting in a militia. After the war, he was nominated and selected to be a part of the Revolutionary Council, and became an integral piece in the forming of our nation, alongside his compatriots and colleagues. Now, Mr. Vartanian is taking a different path.

After the war, Vartanian was informed by his doctor of a tumor growing in his pancreas, the organ which is involved in blood sugar control and metabolism within the body, and also in the secretion of substances, which help digestion. The tumor had begun development during the war, and Vartanian therefore did not receive the proper treatment, nor been informed of it’s existence until now. Vartanian, at the young age of 44, is thankful that he had been there to at least attempt to secure the ideals and beliefs of our revolution during the formation of our government. Because of his fight, Nydia has become not only a strong nation, but also a free and prosperous one. Mr. Vartanian will now retire to his apartments in Vanaza city, publishing articles in the Daily Mail where and when he can, but overall, he will be retiring from political life.

The torch will be handed down to the young Anastasia Lavada. Lavada, at the current age of 36, fought alongside Vartanian’s Freedom Fighters in the war, and quickly joined his newspapers and the campaign trail after the war. Lavada is a firm liberal conservative, like Vartanian, and an advocate of both civil and economic liberties, as well as social conservative values. She will not become the lead editor of the Daily Mail newspaper, upon Vartanian’s retirement. Vartanian was both a mentor and a father-figure to Lavada, as she had lost her parents and her entire family to Steinard death squads in the early days of the Revolution, when she was the ripe age of 17. She quickly joined the Freedom Fighters thereafter, and fought through the streets of Vanaza everyday, recovering the city from Steinard and Nesskan tyrants.

Lavada has publically promised that the Daily Mail will become the sole voice of the people, and the strongest advocate of the protection of their lives, liberties, and properties from those who would steal them away. The Daily Mail is also to become far more political and active under Lavada’s leadership. This new era for Nydia begins today! God save the King, and the people of Nydia!

Signed,
Anastasia Lavada, Chief Editor of the Daily Mail