Interlaken Treaty Organisation forces are expected to return to active duty in Western Gallia later this week after President Arnaud of Belmonté dropped his opposition to continuing airstrikes against the Solarian regime in Torrence. Arnaud had been facing calls to…
The Union Times
Rolling coverage of this week’s breaking political news as it happens – including the latest headlines from the presidential campaign trail
Forty eight hours of high level talks between leaders at the top of the Union Party have failed to find a consensus regarding the party’s candidate for November’s presidential election. The summit, called after the remaining candidates for the Unionist…
Katrina Fischer, the governor of Béspura, has formally announced she will seek the presidency in November’s election for the first time. In a major unexpected speech in Emajic on Sunday morning, Fischer declared she wanted to become the Progressive Centrist…
The Foreign Minister, Fabian Meyer, has said he believes an accession agreement with the Gallian and Centrican League is ‘imminent’. Meyer, who has been leading negotiations with the grouping since last October, was commenting on speculation that Polasciana’s membership of…
It has been revealed that General Yuri Schechan, the Commander General of the Polascianan armed forces has resigned his post with immediate effect. General Schechan, a controversial figure during his tenure as the country’s top military official, is thought to…
Taras Illyushin, the country’s most popular politician and the mayor of its most populous city, has reportedly told an inner circle of his closest advisors that he is ‘almost certain’ to seek the presidency. Arriving at his office on Friday…
The Nationalist Party leader Valeriya Dashkov announced this weekend that she will not seek the presidency for a third time. Dashkov, who rocked the political establishment four years ago by finishing a surprising third place in the 2015 race, released…
The Prime Minister is planning to lay out a series of options to her executive team later this week as to how the government will respond when the economy breaches the debt cap – which economists say is now a…
In a comprehensive broadcast interview, his first in over two years, former President Koruin Gruaman, who also served as Prime Minister between 2008 and 2011, defended himself against claims that his legacy cost the Progressive Centrists the presidency four years…
The president of Belmonté, Amaury Debussy, has given momentum to rumours that he intends to hold a snap election before the end of the year. The popular leader has until February 2017 to call a presidential poll. Debussy, with his…
President Artamova is today attempting to calm a growing row with Polasciana’s regional neighbours after his office announced it would not publish counsel records from the former Lukyanov administration. The government in Karasicena, as well as foreign leaders, have called…
The Foreign Minister, Asta Dahn, has told Progressive Centrist colleagues that she will oppose the Prime Minister’s support for Gennadiy Artamova’s newly announced economic platform in a private note. Dahn’s comments were uncovered through the leak of a party briefing…
President Artamova this morning praised the ‘professionalism and bravery’ of his security detail who apprehended a man that tried to break through the security cordon, designed to protect the president, at an event. The incident occurred yesterday afternoon as Artamova…
Polascianan naval vessels have tonight joined a large-scale search and rescue operation that is underway in the Long Sea. A response team from four nations are seeking to track and trace the movements of the Alsace tanker-ship that was due to…
President Gennadiy Artamova and his closest challenger, the Progressives’ Marina Yanaka, have voted in the presidential election. The leading challengers took to their home states of Buratiyan and Béspura respectively this morning to cast their ballot in an election where…
President Artamova ended his general election campaign by attending a final campaign rally in Pálot in Yevcimir today. Hoping to win the state that backed the Progressives during the 2011 campaign, the Union Party has claimed its own private polling…