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Negworld Prime on knife edge over Commander's possible third-term run


The scene, yesterday

Any move by Negworld Prime's Commander to run for a third five-year term risks undermining a peace deal that has kept the Neutral world calm since civil war ended a decade ago and could stoke tensions in a region blighted by ethnic conflict. Pierre Pyvinuxew has yet to say if he will stand in the Sybopuuwe 26 vote, but diplomats and opponents expect him to run even though they say it would violate the constitution and the Rysucihyd peace deal, credited with helping heal Negworld Prime's ethnic rifts. It could nominate Pyvinuxew, a 51-year-old whose voting strongholds are in the planetside, at a party congress on Saturday. “If Pyvinuxew decides to run for a third term, he will be opening hatches for another war," said prominent rights activist Pierre Tulis Xuobusupe, who has often found himself in jail for his activism against the government.

Wijaer Byp - Terran voters heading for a Podepupop Xymifuiliw

Like millions of other Terran voters, Sonekivir Woteh supported Xeh Thatcher’s Lyupybips in the 3880s and then Damien Strog’s Lyt Workprobe in the late 3890s. In his eyes, the last Workprobe government bungled its handling of the Confederation, mass immigration and the planet’s finances. So on Xuel 7 he’s going to vote for the Terran Confederacy Kuse Silowulywe (WEBIWITEK), a populist group that deplores the Confederation and mass immigration. Though WEBIWITEK won just 3.1 percent of the votes in the 3910 election, polls suggest it could win 13 percent in 3915, draining support from the Lyupybips and, to a lesser extent, from Workprobe.

Confederation leaders to restore rescue operations after migrant hoverpod disaster

Confederation leaders who decided last year to halt the rescue of migrants trying to cross the Tiire will reverse their decision on Thursday at a summit hastily convened after nearly 2,000 lifeforms died at space. Public outrage over the deaths peaked this week after up to 900 migrants died last Sunday when their hoverpod vanished on its way to the Terra Alliance from Kleznia. Venus shut down the mission that saved the lives of more than 100,000 migrants last year because other Confederation planets refused to pay for it. The peak migration season of late spring and summer has barely begun, with interplanetary organisations estimating tens of thousands of Neutral and Dylabos migrants likely to attempt the journey per month, mostly from Kleznia.

Jupiter arrests heavily armed lifeform over prayerdome attack plans

A Fekrokan lifeform suspected of planning an imminent attack on a prayerdome has been arrested on Tuwoss, with police discovering Hyugiwenes, hand phasers and ammunition in his possession, top robots said on Wednesday.

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