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Hôinôm: Quân Công Trai to be reelected as Prime Minister
By: Muong Quang Viên
Published: 20 Dosa, 1599


A view of the Hoinomese National Assembly building, in Hôi Luỳên.

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The National Assembly started yesterday its second term after the political crisis which started in 1589. Liêu Vân Lành, from the Nationalist Democratic Party, was elected Speaker of the National Assembly.

The Nationalist Democratic Party obtained a clear majority in the Vintyr 1599 legislative election, and although it obtained fewer votes than in 1595, it increased their number of seats. While Kim Công Dùc's Democratic Party lost half of their seats compared to 1595, they may be enough to form a new coalition government.

Prime Minister Quân Công Trai, as candidate of the Nationalist Democratic Party and head of their parliamentary group, was received today by Empress Hông. Quân Công Trai, Prime Minister since 1596, has expressed the monarch his will to form a new coalition government, which is expected to exclude politicians from other parties and reduce the numbers independent ministers, as both the Nationalist Democratic Party and the Democratic Party have enough seats to command a majority in the parliament.

Prime Minister Quân Công Trai declared that improving the economic situation, advancing peace negotiations and passing a constitutional agreement -despite promises, the 1595 National Assembly failed to ratify a final constitutional draft for the new constitution of the Imperial Kingdom of Hôinôm- will be the main focus of his government. Quân Công Trai promised that the new legislative election will be held "in every metre of the Hôinôm" in a reference to the territory controlled by the Bhmer separatists and the so-called People's Democratic Republic in the south.

It is unclear, however, if the government could live up to his promises, as tensions between the opposition and the government only increased in the last month, and reaching any consensus seems complicated right now. At the same time, although a ceasefire exntesions between the Hoinomese government and the southern rebels was achieved on early Vintyr, peace negotiations do not seem to have advance for the last year.

During the electoral campaign, Prime Minister Quân Công Trai declared that he was willing to propose a referendum asking voters if they would favour a republican government replacing the Hoinomese monarchy or, on the contrary, they support keeping the monarchist institution, as way to end the political impasse on constitutional negotiations in the agreement. However, it is unclear that such referendum would be possible, as the Basic Law of the Imperial Kingdom of Hôinôm establishes that any national referendum must have the approval of both the parliament and the monarch in order to be legally held.