The Union of Democratic States Update: March-May 2018

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Current Government

• Founder: The Noble Thatcherites

• World Assembly Delegate: The Noble Thatcherites

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• Prime Minister: Khevo

• Deputy Prime Minister: Asdersland

• Minister of Education: The Noble Thatcherites

• Minister of Roleplay: Wonkeyblurtz

• Minister of the Census: Kade

• Minister of Foreign Affairs: Relfa

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• Chief Justice: Relfa

• Associate Justice: Phoenix

• Associate Justice: Diamond Confederacy

• Associate Justice: Glaciosia

• Associate Justice: United Arkadia

• Attorney General: Comlogical

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April General Elections

• The Union had a General Election to all public seats of the region in April 20th. The elected officials were inaugurated in April 30th.

• In the race for Prime Minister, Khevo defeated We The People and Asdersland by 15 votes against 12 and 1, respectively. There was no votes to Re-Open Nominations. Brittalia, who was the sitting Prime Minister decided not to run for reelection.

• In the race for Chief Justice, Relfa defeated the Diamond Confederacy and Phoenix by 14 votes against 10 and 4, respectively. There was no votes to Re-Open Nominations. The position was left vacant since Kanglia resigned in the middle of March.

• Comlogical, who ran for reelection as Attorney General, and The Noble Thatcherites, who ran for reelection as World Assembly Delegate, were lonely candidates for the offices they were running for. Both were elected with 26 votes against 2 votes to Re-Open Nominations.

• In the race for the Senate, the Union was testing a new style of voting system, the Average Placement System. Duckstan, North Plegia, Drawception, Wonkeyblurtz, Australia Hungary, Levantx, Eurech and Tanisha were the candidates. All candidates got elected. Duckstan was further elected Speaker between the senators after facing North Plegia.

[/ul]Senate Report:

Current Senators:

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Senator: Australia Hungary
Senator: Drawception
Senator: Eurech
Senator: Wonkeyblurtz
Senator: North Plegia
Senator: Tanisha[/ul]
The Senate discussed the following bills in the last two months:

• The UDSAF Incentive Act - Defeated

• The Investigative Standards Act - Passed

• Motion to Amend the Constitution 2018 (2) - Passed

• Motion for an Amendment to the Legal Court System Act - Passed

• Roleplay Improvement Act 2018 - Passed

• Relevant Authorities Act of 2018 - Defeated

• Bill Prioritization Act of 2018 - Passed

• Legislative Docket Officiation Act of 2018 - Passed

• Oath of Neutrality Act of 2018 - Passed

• Motion for an Amendment to CL-010 - Passed

• Electoral Commission Act - Passed

• Motion for the Removal of Provisions Relating to the Founder - Passed

• Motion for an Amendment to the Regional Permissions Act - Passed

• Motion to Amend the Constitution - Passed

• The Premiership Succession Act - Passed

• The Parole Act of 2018 - Passed

• Abstention Act 2018 - Passed

• Motion to Amend the Constitution - Passed

[/ul]Foreign Affairs Happenings

• The Foreign Affairs Program was started by its author, Relfa. This program established the ambassador program and a bimonthly report program. If you want to check who is our emissary to your region check it here (if there is none, we will get one ambassador to your region as soon as we can).

• The Union has severed all relations with Enadia and rescinded the Enadian embassy status. This happened after Enadia showed total disrespect to our region’s sovereignty. Such acts includes enadian recruitment in the UDS, ejecting and banning official UDS diplomats from their Discord server and comments that undermine nations of the Union. More information can be found here.

[/ul]Other important happenings:

• Our regional forum was overhauled and it looks a bit different now. If you want to take a look on it, check it here.

• Ozzz, a citizen of the region, accused the former Prime Minister Brittalia of harassment after he complained about the use of certain words on Brittalia’s newspaper, The Union Tribune. The owner of the paper defended himself and counter-accused Ozzz of violating the first amendment of the Bill of Rights by disrespecting the Freedom of the Press. The Supreme Court and the Attorney General are currently working on the case and it may lead to a trial.

• After a discussion in the Senate, Senator Levantx, who couldn’t stand his arguments and got irritated with being contradicted, resigned from his position and left the region. The senator was a controversial figure in the region.

[/ul]Latest Issues from Our Newspapers:

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• The Union Post - The oldest UDS newspaper

• The Union Tribune - The Union's most recurring newspaper

• The Union Times - One of the Union's oldest newspapers

• The Flaming Truth - A Free Conservative Party affiliated newspaper

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Written by Relfa

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