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South Pacific Independent News Network · 06-15-2020, 01:58 PM

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Good, Insightful and Timely | Year 18 | 15 June 2020

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ELECTIONS
NAKARI ELECTED PRIME MINISTER
Nakari has been elected to a second non-consecutive term as Prime Minister, winning 29-13 in the second round of voting against North Prarie. Joining her in the Cabinet are Seraph in Regional Affairs, Jay Coop in Foreign Affairs and Phoenix in Military Affairs. The campaigns focused significantly on the possibility of alliances with other defender powers and placing a greater focus on the South Pacific's defender identity, both as a source of activity and as a way to gain greater power and relevance in NationStates.

ASSEMBLY
ASSEMBLY CONSIDERING CABINET ADVISORY ROLE FOR THE LOCAL COUNCIL
The Assembly is considering a proposal to amend the Charter that would allow the Local Council to send a representative to sit on Cabinet meetings and contribute to them in an advisory capacity. This follows a debate on the possibility of having the Local Council elect one of their own as Minister of Home Affairs, a proposal that found certain opposition from legislators, who expressed doubt that this new position would have an effective role within the Cabinet. The Local Council ls already empowered to send a representative to the Assembly; the new proposal would allow this representative to also provide advise and represent gameside interests before the Cabinet.

HIGH COURT
CAMPAIGN TELEGRAMS WITH STAMPS RULED LEGAL
The High Court has ruled that campaign telegrams sent through stamps and scripts are legal. This answers a legal question submitted by Jay Coop, asking whether the Regional Communications Act prohibited the use of mass telegrams to engage in campaigning. The ruling, written by Chief Justice Kringle and signed by Justice Nat, explains that the Regional Communications Act only applies to Regional Officials using Communications power and that a ban on the ability of citizens to campaign through mass telegrams would have been an unreasonable restriction on the right to free speech.

ROLEPLAY
ROLEPLAYERS DISCUSS THE COMPOSITION OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
Roleplayers have resumed their long-running discussion on the composition of the solar system. It has long been decided that the planet where all canon events happen is called Pacifica, and that it is orbited by two moons called Maxima and Minima, but there was never a definite consensus on how the rest of the system looked like. The debate, led by Qwert, has resulted in a vote on the composition of the solar system -5 rocky planets, 3 gas giants, 1 gas giant and 3 asteroid belts- and is now turning to the naming conventions for the planets.

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