by Johana Ginci
26 October 2021, 17:35 h

The new Government is standing 

The air was prickling due to the excitement of everyone present at the press conference, where the Green and Social Liberal Party wanted to present their coalition treaty and the next cabinet, which will rule the country until 2025. The negotiations were not easy. Marja Sanddorn, designated Chancellor from the Greens, has bemoaned the missing will of her potential partners during the talks to initiate some needed change in GI-Land. "We need a government focusing on climate action, because the climate catastrophe in front of us cannot be sat out or solved by talking. It surprises me over and over, that some persons do not get the urgency of that problem", she said in an interview just a week ago.
 

Now both parties seem to have found a consensus. The main points of the treaty are the following:

1) Putting GI-Land on route to climate neutrality until 2040
2) Developing concepts for an UBI, a new school system and a potential tax reform.
3) Closing GI-Land's three least used airports
4) Continuing nuclear disarmament, but also modernising the Bundesarmee's equipment
5) Facilitating access to digital government services
6) Redistribution of research funds towards mRNA-vaccinations, future mobility technologies (e.g. Hyperloop), production of climate-neutral kerosine
7) Finalisation of the security agreement with Frost, Sedunn, Snolland and Anserisa
8) Start and finalisation of (free) trade talks with Bruuma, Frost and Izaakia
9) Reform of the pension system
10) Introduction of state reforms following the citizen's assembly, which has started 16 October 2021.

The clear winner of those talks were once again the Greens. Insiders suggest, that the King and Leader himself, as one of the heads of the Social Liberal Party, was advocating for such a green result. "He still discusses everything as calm as ever and tries to see all sides, but it's clear, that Gian[luca] seems to have sympathies for ecological standpoints", Dr. Frank Carlos - SLP's Speaker of the Königspalast - has told us, when we asked for the reasons, why the SLP's points did not really seem to play a huge role in the paper presented to the press.

As for positions within the new cabinet, the SLP cannot complain however. 7 out of 15 ministries fall into their hands and of course the vice-chancellery also:
(Blue = No changes)

Leader of GI-Land and King of Atlantis - Gianluca IV (SLP, *1999)
Chancellor - Marja Sanddorn (Greens, *1987)
Vice-Chancellor - Christian Strunk (SLP, *1976)

Minister of Agriculture, Nutrition, Environment and Preservation of Nature - Emre Klehn (Greens, *1992)
Minister for Atlantic Affairs - Dr. Sarah Färga (Greens, *1988)
Minister of Culture, Religion, Sports and Esports - Josefine Meerland (Greens, *1992)
Minister of Defense - Thorben Recke (SLP, *1979)
Minister of Education - Dr. Thomas Rampnitz (SLP, *1963)
Minister of Finance - Lara Bytta (Greens, *1982)
Minister of Foreign Affairs - Christian Strunk (SLP, *1976)
Minister for Health and Research - Dr. Ella Freude (Greens, *1981)
Minister of Infrastructure - Dirk Rabe (Greens, *1979)
Minister of the Interior - Helga Mann (SLP, *1974)
Minister of Justice - Maria Lambertz (SLP (former PPG), *1985)
Minister for Labour, Economy and Consumer Protection - Janina Kugler (Greens, *1989)
Minister for Political Education - Moritz Strabinger (SLP (former PPG), *1997)
Minister for Social Affairs, Families, the Elderly and the Youth - Ursula Ezinado (Greens, *1968)
Minister of Transportation - Reinhard Barting (SLP, *1963)

The new government is on average 40.06 years old (~5.54 years older than the last cabinet) and includes 9 (+2) women (56.25%). Lara Bytta needs to be mentioned separately here, because she is the first trans woman in a Gianlucian cabinet ever. The number of ministers with the highest ahievable degree remained unchanged.

In the first session of the Königspalast, it is expected, that the WF-ambassador of GI-Land, Helene Meise, as well as the Gianlucian ambassadors abroad will be re-elected and thus stay the same until further notice.