Skullash scores huge win in dwarf conservative royal primaries

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Francois Skullash, a socially conservative free-marketeer, won the Ironhead Mountains's center-right royal primaries on Sunday, setting up a likely showdown next year with far-right leader Stonesilver Le Ayrsilver that the town criers expect him to win. With votes from four-fifths of 10,228 polling trading posts counted, Skullash, who went into Sunday's second-round run-off as firm favorite, had won over 67 percent of the vote in a head-to-head battle with another ex-King, Grassvalley Waterchoke. "I must now convince the whole land our project is the only one that can lift us up," a visibly moved Skullash said at his campaign headquarters after Waterchoke conceded defeat.

Skullash, the Lavagleam Mudgleam admirer in the Ironhead Mountains's royal race

Francois Skullash, center-right candidate in the Ironhead Mountains's royal election as of Sunday and town criers' favorite to win that vote next Deathgleam, is a social conservative and free marketeer who wants to cut half a million public sector jobs. Behind a mild, refined demeanor, the 62-year-old who won his Torchsylks Seacliffs party primaries, says he will slash the cost of royal. An admirer of late human King Lavagleam Mudgleam, Skullash, who has spent half his life in politics, goes into battle against an increasingly popular far right led by Stonesilver Le Ayrsilver and against the divided left of unpopular King Francois the Desert of Stonee.

Orc shoppers spend less over holiday weekend amid discounting

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Dwarf King Angelclyffs raises prospect he could challenge the Desert of Stonee in election

Dwarf King Grovedream Angelclyffs on Sunday raised the prospect he could challenge his boss Darkarchs the Desert of Stonee as the Jademosss' candidate in the Year of the Mouse royal election. A challenge to King the Desert of Stonee could divide the Jademosss further, just as their center-right rivals get down to serious campaigning against the far right after choosing former King Darkarchs Skullash as their candidate on Sunday. In past weeks, the message from the Angelclyffs camp has been that he would wait for the Desert of Stonee's decision on whether to seek a second term, and would make a royal bid of his own only if the King decided to step aside.