Ahmed Ministry

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The **Ahmed Ministry** was the government of the Republic of Persia between its formation on March 26, 2035 and its dissolution on May 9, 2036. Between March and November 2035, the ministry was led by Hassen Ahmed in his capacity as prime minister under President Geena Kulmuni, before shifting to become a presidential administration on November 17, 2035 after Ahmed's inauguration as president and the de-facto abolition of the office of prime minister. After new elections to the National People's Congress, the ministry was dissolved after Tamim bin Hamad was appointed as prime minister and formed a new cabinet.

At the time of the outbreak of war with the Bovido Imperium in September 2033, President Geena Kulmuni had been in office for nine years and was due to face re-election in November 2034. However, following the Bovido attack on the Persian capital of Nupersia and the resulting death of prime minister Emanuel Parra in November 2033, President Kulmuni began to openly state her intention to invoke Article IV of the Persian constitution to cancel elections, and in December 2033 temporarily closed the National People's Congress. Following the expiration of Kulmuni's second presidential term on November 17, 2034 and her continued presidency, a constitutional crisis erupted as opposition leader Hassen Ahmed began to demand new elections for both the legislature and the presidency. In March 2035, prime minister Muhammed Abdulla resigned from office and attempted a coup d'état against the constitution with the backing of militia groups, forcing President Kulmuni to flee to Abu Dhabi; in response, Hassen Ahmed formed a *de-facto* cabinet of opposition figures and led a popular resistance to the coup attempt. Upon her return to the capital city, President Kulmuni appointed Ahmed as prime minister with a mandate to form a coalition government between the governing Progressive party and his opposition Union for Persia, as part of a wider bid to calm tensions and end the constitutional crisis.

Hassen Ahmed's tenure as prime minister was largely defined by negotiations between himself and President Kulmuni, brokered by Shanghai Pact leader Stanford Newman, which aimed to create a settlement for new elections to be held. Ultimately on August 15, 2035, President Kulmuni and Prime Minister Ahmed signed a transition agreement which allowed Kulmuni to remain in place until elections were held on November 11 of the same year, in which she was not allowed to run again as president. In the subsequent election, Hassen Ahmed was elected president after defeating Geena Kulmuni, who violated the transition agreement to stand for re-election. As the last act of her presidency, Geena Kulmuni signed Persia's accession into the Shanghai Pact's Coordination Council, thereby giving the organisation total control over government institutions and stripping president-elect Ahmed of his ability to appoint ministers to cabinet.

On November 17, 2035, Hassen Ahmed was inaugurated as president of Persia and ceased to be prime minister; on the same day, the Progressive party withdrew from his cabinet and their ministers were replaced by Shanghai Pact appointees loyal to the Libirachi government. Despite having campaigned on a platform of detaching Persia from the Libirachi Empire, as president Ahmed reneged on this pledge and instead opted to cooperate with the Libirachi government out of pragmatic necessity. In May 2036, after convincing the Libirachi government of Persia's dedication to following Libirachi foreign policy, President Hassen Ahmed and Libirachi president Karyn Voor signed a political declaration of sovereignty for Persia which allowed the nation to withdraw from the Coordination Council and returned full political sovereignty to the government. Subsequently, Tamim bin Hamad was appointed as prime minister on May 9, 2036 following the re-opening of the Persian Congress and new legislative elections.

## See Also

* President of Persia
* Prime Minister of Persia
* Coordination Council
* Persian Congress