Government of Cappedore

## Welcome

**Welcome to the Cappedore Government Page!**

Cappedore is a Semi-presidential federal republic. This means executive power is delegated between a President (Austin Merrill) and a Chancellor (Maya Murray). This page will tell you more about these individuals, and the government that has been presiding over Cappedore since 2019.

On 25 May 2022, the President announced the necessity for a constitutional convention this year. For more information, see 2022 Constitutional Convention.

## Austin Merrill (President)

Austin Merrill is the 26th President of Cappedore, and has served as President since 17 December 2014. Previously, he has served as the First Deputy Chancellor (2004 - 2009) and was a representative to the Witenagemot from New Cumberland (1999 - 2009). As President, he succeeded Stuart Clarke, who rose to office after the death of Michael Ramsay in 2007 during his second term as President.

Merrill's Vice President is Cleveland Durand, and the two have had a very close friendship over their political careers. Many are saying that Durand will be nominated for the 2024 Presidential elections when Merrill's term ends, and he is currently polling slightly more higher than Merrill for popularity in the CSDP.

In more recent years, pressure has been growing on Merrill by Chancellor Maya Murray and the parliament to call a constitutional convention in 2022 to grant the legislature and the Chancellor the ability to call snap elections instead of having them a few months earlier than the presidential elections, amongst other important issues such as major legislative reform.

## Cleveland Durand (Vice President)

Cleveland Durand is the \_\_ Vice President of Cappedore. He is a very popular politician amongst CSDP members and citizens and is already being seen as Austin Merrill's replacement in 2024 should the CSDP win the Presidential elections. Previously, he has served as the Chancellor (2011 - 2014) and, more prominently, Administrator of Finance (2001 - 2007), during which he brought about many reforms which have positively benefitted Cappedore and its 30 states.

For a short while, before resigning for family issues, Durand served as Prime Minister of the Western Proxy States (1994 - 1997), where he introduced some major reforms to the states of Josiah, Arria, and Gascoyne alike.

Much like Chancellor Maya Murray, Durand has also been urging President Merrill to call a 2022 Constitutional Convention, which would be the first convention in 21 years since 2001. This is over legislative concerns, as well as concerns regarding political apathy in Cappedore and the decreasing voter turnout in elections.

## Maya Murray (Chancellor)

Maya Murray is the current Cappedorite Chancellor. She joined the CSDP in the 1980s and has held a range of offices across the political environment in Cappedore. She is a good friend of current Vice President Cleveland Durand, and is expected to be his running mate in the 2024 Presidential election.

Like many in the current government, Murray has been calling on the President to call a constitutional convention which allows him to attend the Gemotern to discuss new changes to the constitution in 2022. Murray wants the ability to call snap elections, whilst calling for major reform, such as improving on federalisation in Cappedore, giving the country a federal system that still co-exists as a unitary system. She is also pretty confident that she can score a Welfare Coalition (CSDP-CLU Coalition) majority in the new Gemotern in 2022 alongside First Deputy Chancellor Thomas Coleman.