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NEW LONDON - The Parliament convened earlier today for the MPs to vote who will be the next prime minister. There were two competing candidates: MP Robert Bailey and MP Elizabeth Hall. Both candidates stood at the head of coalitions. Bailey had formed an alliance between the Social Democratic Federation, which was his own party, the Liberal Party and the Green Party, who had 296 seats in total in the Parliament. Bailey had promised the Greens that a large surface of Carlisle would not be colonised and would remain a national park, while the Greens had to accept the colonisation in return. Hall took the lead of the Whig Party only recently after MP Wesley Melbourne was replaced due to his unwillingness to form a coalition. She stated that her mission was "to bring back strength and unity to the Royalists", but under a new leadership that is oriented towards "economic recovery rather than costly territorial expansion at the expense of innocent Zoners or alike". The Whigs and the Royalists thus reunited, though not as one party, but a coalition led by the Whigs. The Royalists' conditions were that the cabinet would have to contain a Royalist foreign secretary and a Royalist minister of defence, and that a Royalist would have to be appointed as deputy prime minister. This coalition has 325 seats in total. The Whig-Royalist coalition won 319 votes, while the SDF-LP-GP coalition scored very nearly with 297. Thirty-one MPs abstained. Prime Minister Elizabeth Hall was then approved by the queen, with the requirement that she resigns from the Armed Forces and as Governor-General of Exeter, which she promised to do. Lady Sarah Mountbatten, leader of the Royalists, will serve as the deputy prime minister and foreign secretary. The rest of the cabinet are the following: Home Secretary Sir Ambrister Jones (Royalists), Chancellor of the Exchequer Nathan Graham (Whigs), Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Sir Henry Fairfax (Whigs), Lord Chancellor Lord Edwin Glyn (Whigs) and Defence Minister David Templer (Royalists). The new government has announced plans to abandon Exeter for the sake of sparing the funds for Carlisle, despite the prime minister's personal involvement in the system and Royalist outcry. To satisfy the Royalists, the government has announced that the military budget will not be decreased, but will instead increase proportionally to economic recovery. Prime Minister Hall plans to stimulate economic recovery by attracting foreign investment and said that "Harris will only be sold if there is no other way, and if we do sell Aland, it will only be after Portsmouth has been finished and definitely not to the IMG". The latter statement has produced some resentment from independent MPs, who are in various ways connected to the IMG, which may prove troublesome for Hall's cabinet because the 26 of them may potentially tip the sensitive balance with the opposition if Hall attempts to pass a new military budget. How Hall intends to resolve this issue remains to be seen. Meanwhile, the Greens have left the short-lived coalition, as Bailey's promise to form a government with them could not be realised. Nevertheless, it remains unlikely that the Greens will support any expansion of the military budget. In her speech addressing the Parliament, Hall announced that there would be no complete return to peacetime economy and that the War Cabinet will not be dissolved until Edinburgh has been liberated. "The recovery of the Realm's condition indeed is this government's aim", she said, "but not so we can spoil our stoic Bretonian spirits with comfort. Rather, the aim of this government is to prepare Bretonia for the final confrontation with the [Gallic Royal] Enclave, to liberate Edinburgh and to bring those that devastated Leeds to equally harsh justice." The BBC will continue to cover this subject as it develops. Stay tuned.

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