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The Tofino Times
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Sunday, November 17th, 2019

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[/hr]VOL. XXXII .. Num. 6320 | In the News: Zamastan's Choice

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[color=#FF0000]BREAKING NEWS
The INAUGURATION of FOLEY SAKZI
The 14th President of Zamastan

Foley Sakzi has been inaugurated as the 14th President of Zamastan in a ceremony in the Rotunda of Congressional Hall. Administering the oath was Larious Maxwell, the Leader of the Conservative Party and widely thought to be their choice for the new Speaker of the Chamber in Sakzi's wake. Sakzi took the oath of office with his hand on a copy of President Avi Taures' bible, which was used in four of his inaugural swearing in ceremonies (1846, 48, 50, and 54). His wife, Hannah Sakzi, held the bible for her husband. After the oath, Sakzi spoke to the audience gathered outside the Congressional Hall steps in the balmy sun.


[box]"The oath that I have taken is the same oath that was taken by Tomias Hapson and by every President under the Constitution. But I assume the Presidency under extraordinary circumstances never before experienced by Zamastanians. This is an hour of history that troubles our minds and hurts our hearts. Therefore, I feel it is my first duty to make an unprecedented compact with my countrymen. Not an inaugural address, not a fireside chat, not a campaign speech--just a little straight talk among friends. And I intend it to be the first of many.

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your traditional senses, and so I ask you to confirm me as your President with your prayers. And I hope that such prayers will also be the first of many. I am indebted to no man, and only to one woman--my dear wife--as I begin this very difficult job. I have sought this enormous responsibility, and I will not shirk it. Those who nominated and confirmed me as President were of both parties, elected by all the people and acting under the Constitution in their name. It is only fitting then that I should pledge to them and to you that I will be the President of all the people.

Avi Taures, who's bible I have been sworn in on, said the people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty. And down the years, Marvin Gaviria renewed this Zamastanian article of faith asking, "Is there any better way or equal hope in the world?" Even though this is early leading into an election cycle, there is no way we can go forward except together and no way anybody can win except by serving the people's urgent needs. We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

To the peoples and the governments of all friendly nations, and I hope that could encompass the whole world, I pledge an uninterrupted and sincere search for peace. Zamastan will remain strong and united, but its strength will remain dedicated to the safety and sanity of the entire family of man, as well as to our own precious freedom and democracy.

I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad. In all my public and private acts as your President, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.

My fellow Zamastanians, our long national heartbreak is over. Our Constitution works, our politics work; our great Imperial Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule. The men and women who built this nation and reside here and work here are our champions. Our soldiers and our police and our firemen and our selfless volunteers are our heroes. But there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy.

As we bind up the internal wounds of Bishop's control, more painful and more poisonous than those of foreign wars, let us restore the golden rule to our political process, and let brotherly love purge our hearts of suspicion and of hate. In the beginning, I asked you to pray for me. Before closing, I ask again your prayers, for Anya Bishop and her unborn child. May our former President find peace for herself. May God bless and comfort her wonderful partner and her unborn child. I can only guess at those burdens, although I have witnessed at close hand the tragedies that befell three Presidents in the past four years and their lesser trials as well.

With all the strength and all the good sense I have gained from life, with all the confidence my family, my friends, and my dedicated staff impart to me, and with the good will of countless Zamastanians I have encountered in recent visits from my campaign trail, I now solemnly reaffirm my promise I made to you when I became Speaker in 2012: to uphold the Constitution, to do what is right as God gives me to see the right, and to do the very best I can for Zamastan. God helping me, I will not let you down.

Thank you.[/box]

POST-INAUGURATION TRADITIONS AND LUNCHEON

Following the inauguration and subsequent speech, President Sakzi attended a meeting of Senators from both Conservative and Liberal parties. With First Lady Hannah Sakzi at his side, President Foley Sakzi signed his first presidential orders in the President's Room at Congressional Hall, and then signed the guest book for the traditional luncheon. The first order signed by Sakzi was a proclamation declaring his Inauguration Day a "National Day of Renewal and Reconciliation", in which he called "upon all of our citizens to serve one another and the common purpose of remaking this Nation for our new century". Next, Sakzi signed orders to officially present the nominations for his new Administration and several sub‑administration officials to the Congress Chamber for its approval.

The Sakzis joined several congressional guests for the inaugural luncheon in Statuary Hall at Congressional Hall. Guests included top Tofino lawmakers as well as former Presidents Zacharias Castovia and Aiden Avery, who was released from Emerald General Hospital yesterday following a brain procedure.

INAUGURAL PARADE

The inaugural parade route ran along Zian Avenue, N.W. from the Congressional Hall, ending at the south face of the Zian President Mansion. During most of the parade, President Sakzi and First Lady Hannah Sakzi traveled in the new armored limousine because of potential security threats. The President and First Lady twice exited their limousine, walking on Zian Avenue for portions of the parade. There were four instances of areas of the parade that were cordoned off from damage caused by extensive protests weeks earlier following Bishop's actions against protesters that led to her removal.

The parade lasted more than two hours during the afternoon and early evening following the inaugural ceremony. Parade participants included 15,000 people, 240 horses, an army band, dozens of marching bands, the Zian Military Institute corps of cadets, and two drum and bugle corps: The Cadets and the Mustangs. Sakzi invited the marching band from Folken Briar School, his high school in Providence, to perform in the parade along with the marching unit of its Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps.

Zamastan Space Agency astronaut Dan J. Walheim marched in the parade carrying a Zamastanian flag and wearing a prototype of ZSA's next generation spacesuit. Astronaut Warren L. Bernhardt drove a prototype lunar rover in the parade. In addition to Astronauts Walheim and Bernhardt, the crew of the first manned Zamastanian vehicle into space - the Zian Falcon 2F and the OrcaNear-2 manned module - astronauts Casey Giverston and Jesse Imm also marched in the parade.
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