Baracão Experiences Election Troubles

The Republic of Baracão's planned elections for the positions of President, Minister-General and for three seats on the highest legislative chamber, the Council of State, have seen more calamity and disaster rather than democratic progress.

The Electoral Commissioner, Rico Noriega, had experienced technical problems that were out of his hands, and has now been taken ill, suffering from influenza. However, these unavoidable problems were added to by Supreme Judge Rakesh's court order on electoral conduct. Made the day after the elections were originally supposed to have taken place, the Supreme Judge included a point that declared that the Frente Popular's closure of its forum was unconstitutional. The Political Bureau of the Frente Popular has chosen Julio Sanchez to defend the closure as being entirely legal. Sectarianism was fuelled by the court order, with Frente-hater in chief Thomas la Antonio labelling Baracão's largest organisation of any kind as "a party of neo-oligarchy" that maintained its power through "secretive upper-handed rule".

Discussion as to what to do next has begun in the Electoral Commission's headquarters, with the anti-Frente Presidential candidate Devante Covas indulging in more sectarianism, suggesting that the Chairman of the Frente Popular, Alarico Veto Julia, was an entirely autocratic ruler who wanted to "monitor how your [Julia's] entire party voted".

One of the oddest features of the election campaign has been the complete discrediting of Chirsto de Loutrado as a candidate, who, after reading a previous edition of Tiegismo Hoy in which his history in Cyberia was mentioned, began to embroil himself in a curious discussion in the Plaza, awarded the "Kucinich Award for Surrealism in Public Discourse" by friend of the Republic of Baracão, Scott Siskind. A new character was introduced to Baracão, that of Alessandro da Peoulas, who appeared to unconditionally support de Loutrado in a manner that was extremely similar to that of de Loutrado himself. Although he has denied that the two are the same people, de Loutrado's feelings were suitable upset for him to declare that he will resign his citizenship after the elections. As he is a candidate for the elections to the Council of State, this puts him in a curious position, as votes that he receives will be useless, although Tiegismo Hoy suspects that de Loutrado might feel the benefits of a protest vote.

Tiegismo Hoy today recommends that its readers also pick up a copy of the Babkha Sun and it's intelligent, objective and touching account of the Baracãoan elections.