2023 Cappedorite coup d'état: Difference between revisions
no edit summary
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
Line 16:
| commander1 = {{flagicon image|National_Government_Flag_of_Cappedore.png}} [[Maya Murray]]
| commander2 = {{flagicon image|Wealdenite_Flag.png}} [[Cathryn Gargano]]
|
|
}}
On 14 May 2023, a vote of no confidence was initiated in the incumbent [[Chancellor of Cappedore]], [[Maya Murray]], after the [[Fall of Absolution]] to the [[Wealdenite Insurgency]] on 13 May 2023. The vote saw the collapse of the Welfare Coalition government, with both the Liberal Union and the Green Party walking out on the [[Cappedore Social Democratic Party|CSDP]], with mass CSDP defections to the Wealdenite-backed [[People's Reform Party]]. Murray was ultimately toppled from power.
The same night, Wealdenite protestors descended upon the Palace of Absolution ordering for the [[President of Cappedore|president]], [[Austin Merrill]], to sign a repeal of the Cappedorite Concordat and his instant resignation, which has not yet been answered.
In the early hours of 15 May 2023, the new Wealdenite acting chancellor and leader of the movement, [[Cathryn Gargano]], announced the immediate dissolution of the Gemotern, further pressurizing the president to break his silence and dissolve the United Assembly and indeed sign a consent agreement to repeal the concordat of Cappedore.
== Background ==
Main article: [[Wealdenite Revolution]]
On 13 May 2023, the main offices of the United Assembly were attacked and raided by pro-Wealdenite rioters, supported by the majority of opposition parties in the United Assembly. Later, on 14 May, Thomas Coleman of the Liberal Union announced his immediate resignation as First Deputy Chancellor, and his intent to pull his party out of the Welfare Coalition, dismantling the coalition in the process and greatly weakening the CSDP's Gemotern majority. The Green Party later followed suit.
Riots in Absolution started in January 2023 after the repealing of the Fixed Term Gemotern Act 2005, which mandated that the government must hold an election every 5 years. The repealing of the act meant that Murray and the CSDP were no longer required to hold democratic elections. This caused a mass outbreak of riots all over the country, with the State of [[Thomaria]] declaring its secession from the union on 21 February, however, this was unrecognised by the United Republic.
| |||