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Breaking: Valkyria condemns terrorist attacks in Harmakmis-Gordista and Agot. Valkyrian Acting Chancellor Taeler Shaw said, "These are acts of tyranny and the perpetrators must be brought to justice."
Have a comment? ![[Image: 50]](https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/qvwi/images/4/4e/KTN_logo.svg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/50){kind=logo} ![[Image: 200]](https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/qvwi/images/6/67/KTN_News_logo.svg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/200){kind=logo} Valkyrian news | Harrison returns as National Police makes mass arrest By Vanessa Davis, KTN News Tuesday, 18 December 2018 ![[Image: qCuixxbh.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/qCuixxbh.jpg) Margaret Harrison in December 2018 Stockholm (KTN) — Margaret Harrison returned to Executive Valkyria for the first time since her attempted assassination on 14 November, resuming her responsibilities as the Chancellor of the Valkyrian Republic. Concurrently, the National Police arrested 674 people who they suspect to be members of various cultist groups designated as such by the agency's Office of Cultist Movement Investigations. In a press conference, Chief David Lawson said that 43 of the arrests were made in connection to the attempted assassination of the chancellor. The other arrests were made in connection to other ongoing investigations into cultist activities around the country. The police chief said that a detailed report on Tuesday's arrests will be released within three months.
At Executive Valkyria, Harrison was greeted by First Vice Chancellor Taeler Shaw, who had been serving as acting chancellor for the past month, with a flower bouquet and a hug. In the chancellor's office, the acting chancellor ceremoniously returned the powers of the office to the chancellor. Speaking before the press, Harrison made an ominous statement, "We cannot afford complacency before the enemies of peace, freedom, and democracy—from within and without. We have a cultist threat at home and there are ideological powers outside who are staging for total war in Reizen. We will be vigilant and we will be strong, but we must not forget that we strive for peace. We will fight when we must and we will destroy what we must. Sometimes, a war must be fought for the greater good and greater peace."
Valkyrian politics | Kaufman takes over Conservative Party By Allie Vega, KTN News Tuesday, 18 December 2018 ![[Image: MeAEDSZ.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/MeAEDSZ.jpg) Stella Kaufman in December 2018 Stockholm (KTN) — Looking towards the July 2019 general election, the Conservative Party has elected Stella Kaufman as its leader, abandoning former Qvaitican president Jonathan Victor. The leadership election was triggered after Kaufman earned majority support from the party's Members of Parliament to hold one. By a vote of 35 to 27, Kaufman defeated Victor, the incumbent leader. After winning the leadership, Kaufman announced that, if necessary, she would look to build a coalition with Opposition Leader Nicole Chancellor, the parliamentary leader of The New Right, in the aftermath of the July 2019 general election. The new Conservative parliamentary leader said, "A clash of personalities—not ideologies—is the reason why a new United Conservative Party cannot be formed. I am here to change that."
Since June 2017, Kaufman served as the Shadow Secretary of Intelligence for the Conservative Party. After being appointed to the position by Victor, she voiced persistent criticism of Intelligence Secretary Jonathan Wade for what she alleged to be "weak leadership of the intelligence services". In the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Chancellor Margaret Harrison, a sniper attack that killed four people, Kaufman introduced the Expansion of Security Powers Act in an effort to give the Intelligence Directorates the ability to collect data from computers and other devices without the need of a warrant.
Immediately after Kaufman's election, the Leader of the Opposition congratulated her on becoming the Leader of the Conservative Party and expressed a desire to cooperate with her, "Together, we can build a stronger, sovereign, and conservative Valkyria." Centrist Democratic parliamentary leader Victor Cutter expressed hope for a conservative coalition after the July 2019 general election, but he also expressed disappointment in Victor's defeat, "Jonathan Victor has been a close friend of mine for years and it is difficult to watch his party betray him after everything he has done for the conservative movement in our country."
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Breaking: Opposition Leader Nicole Chancellor invited alleged cultist leader and parliamentary candidate Jake Marshall to attend the Day of the Valkyries parade.
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Have a comment? Valkyrian politics | Parliament passes Government Restructuring Act 2019 By Allie Vega, KTN News Friday, 12 April 2019 Stockholm (KTN) — The Valkyrian Parliament moved on Friday to reduce the number of executive departments from 18 to 12. After passing the Government Restructuring Act 2019, the Departments of Immigration, Intelligence, and Justice merged to form the Department of Home Affairs, representing the most powerful consolidation within the government apparatus. However, the restructuring of the Valkyrian government will not take effect until after the next government is formed later this year after the conclusion of the 7 July general election. GRA 2019 was passed with almost unanimous support from all parties in Parliament with Chancellor Margaret Harrison calling the bill a "simplification" of the government.
In-house polling on the general election suggests that there may be no clear winner after the election. The most recent KTN poll finds that Harrison, Opposition Leader Nicole Chancellor, and Conservative leader Stella Kaufman all have an equal chance to become the next Chancellor of the Valkyrian Republic.
Have a comment? Valkyrian politics | Chancellor and Kaufman form New Conservative Coalition By Allie Vega, KTN News Saturday, 13 April 2019 ![[Image: mTX38Nih.png]](https://i.imgur.com/mTX38Nih.png) Stella Kaufman at a conservative conference, April 2019 Stockholm (KTN) — The leaders of The New Right and the Conservative Party have agreed to form the New Conservative Coalition on Saturday as an opposing bloc to the governing Alliance of Social Democrats. Opposition Leader Nicole Chancellor and Conservative leader Stella Kaufman signed an agreement to form a coalition together ahead of the 7 July general election. The decision to do so comes after years of polling suggested that The New Right, the Conservative Party, and the Centrist Democratic Party needed to form a coalition in order to form a majority government. In 2016, The New Right was created after a split between conservative liberal Giovanni Giletti and national conservative Nicole Chancellor. At a conservative conference on Saturday, Kaufman stated that the two parties "[came] to a mutual understanding that [they] need each other in order to defeat [the Alliance of Social Democrats]".
Despite forming the new coalition, in-house polling has consistently showed that The New Right and the Conservative Party will not win enough seats to outnumber the Alliance of Social Democrats and will need the support of a third party such as the Centrist Democratic Party. While the Centrist Democratic Party is generally cooperative with the Conservative Party, its membership in Parliament have historically been hostile toward the notion of an alliance with The New Right, especially under the leadership of Victor Cutter, who resigned in March to run for President of the Valkyrian Republic. Bradley Murphy, the new leader of the Centrist Democratic Party, has so far sidestepped journalists' questions on forming a partnership with the Alliance of Social Democrats or a coalition involving The New Right.
During the conservative conference, the Leader of the Opposition said that the New Conservative Coalition "is a viable alternative to the current government and will be tolerable to other conservative opinions". These comments come after years of verbal attacks towards the other two right-wing parties. When Jonathan Victor and Victor Cutter respectively led the Conservative and Centrist Democratic Parties, Opposition Leader Nicole Chancellor was persistent in calling them "fake conservatives" and claimed that their presidencies of Qvait "led to the decline of conservative leadership" in the country. Since Kaufman's election as leader of the Conservative Party in December 2018, the opposition leader has courted her support as the two leaders may need each other after the 7 July general election.
With the right-wing parties in Parliament one step closer towards having the capability to form a government, the leadership of the Alliance of Social Democrats are now concerned that the current government could be toppled after the 7 July general election. "For years, the ASD has relied on conservative infighting to stay in government," an official from the Alliance of Social Democrats says, "but now that The New Right and the Conservative Party are rallying together, they only need the support of one more party (the Centrist Democratic Party) to go head-to-head with [the Alliance of Social Democrats]". The official stated that the Alliance of Social Democrats will now need to "work harder than ever" during the general election in order to stay in government for another three years.
Have a comment? International news | Valkyrian company denies smuggling allegations By Tara Cross, KTN News Friday, 26 April 2019 Sydney (KTN) — Alessandra Rhys, the chief executive officer of the Valkyria-based private military company Vorsica, denied allegations on Friday that her company is smuggling weapons to the Worker's Party of Reizen. On Thursday, the non-profit organisation Unrestricted Voice published what they allege to be a leak of internal documents or Vorsica that supposedly prove that the company is engaging in weapons smuggling. Responding to the allegations, Rhys said that her company was being targeted by a disinformation campaign and scapegoated, "Yes, I am a member of the Socialist Party, but my company does not do business with terrorist groups. I run a company that is interested in advancing the interests of the Valkyrian Republic, not the interests of an ideology."
At the behest of Chancellor Margaret Harrison, the National Police have opened an investigation into the allegations.
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Have a comment? International news | Valkyrian chancellor calls for calm By Allie Vega, KTN News Friday, 17 May 2019 Stockholm (KTN) — Alerted by the rising tensions in the South Pacific, Valkyrian Chancellor Margaret Harrison has urged all states to "show restraint" and claimed that the Reizen Civil War is "fuelling emotions toward a total war between many countries". The chancellor stated that Valkyria will not be a party to the conflict, but has offered to host and mediate peace talks between all belligerents in Stockholm.
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