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The Tofino Times
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Saturday, November 9th, 2019

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[/hr]VOL. XXXII .. Num. 6320 | In the News: VOTE OF NO-CONFIDENCE

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[color=#FF0000]BREAKING NEWS
PRESIDENT BISHOP IS OUT
IN THE SENATE'S CLOSE 68-30-2 VOTE, PRESIDENT BISHOP HAS BEEN EXPELLED FROM OFFICE UNDER THE RULES OF NO-CONFIDENCE

President Bishop is out.

The Senate voted with a narrow two thirds majority, supported by the abstentions of two senators, to pass a no-confidence condemnation onto President Anya Bishop, cutting her term short nearly 10 months before the 2020 Election. The President will have one day to leave the Zian Presidential Mansion. In the mean time, the Congressional Hall voted to operate as an interim executive branch for the remainder of the time in which the country will be without a head of state. Tomorrow, the Senate will vote for when an emergency election will take place.

President Bishop's critics will jump on the opportunity to possibly seize the Presidency in any special election that is announced, but in the current 2020 polling, Speaker of the Chamber Foley Sakzi is still leading, followed by GLP Leader Cain Blackwater, Senator Euan Gunn (who announced the vote of no-confidence), and Libertarian Shuana Lultquist. Former President Zacharias Castovia is also running as an independent.

Bishop will likely retire to private life, as the vote of no-confidence halts her from ever seeking public office for the next 6 years. However, because of her outward digression towards the vote, it is believed that she will be an active campaigner for people of similar political minds. She was present, as required by No-Confidence rules, during the handing down of the vote. Her final statements before the vote were as follows:

"Dear constituents, I have served as the President for 10 months, and in this time, I believe I have done no intentional wrong. Whatever your decision, I will fight to defend my opinions and views, as they are correct and, though perhaps not pure, they are right. You need to consider a world where my administration is reversed, where my leadership is gone, and where you fling our nation into political crisis. Do not expel me. You will have to answer to the country."

Her warning was obviously self-destructive. All of those who voted for her to be expelled from office were nearly equal across party lines, with 29 Conservatives and 34 Liberals voting for her to leave. Those who voted to keep her in office were also conservatives, but her fate was sealed.

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