Considering that the BoIR is likely to be unavailable in the near future, that the Senate should move on to electing a Mençei, and that, as mentioned earlier, it has its own procedures for determining eligibility in the case of the Senator-elect for Vuode if necessary, I find no real reason to delay seating all three Senators-elect any further.

I am therefore pleased to hereby declare:

@Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be  duly elected as Senator for Belacostă, for a full term lasting three Cosă terms (approx. 27 months);

@Baron Alexandreu Davinescu duly elected as Senator for Maritiimi-Maxhestic, for a full term lasting two Cosă terms (approx. 18 months);

and @Eðo Grischun duly elected as Senator for Vuode, for a full term lasting three Cosă terms (approx. 27 months).

I advise the Senate and outgoing Mençei @Béneditsch Ardpresteir to start making preparations for the election of a Mençei, to be conducted pursuant to Standing Rule 2.




Sir Lüc da Schir
Secretar d'Estat / Secretary of State

All the above is reflected in the Database. @Garth Spencer still has to assign his 10 seats. (Though I'm not sure if this is strictly necessary anymore, now that he legally has no choice but to assign all 10 to himself)


With 190/200 seats filled, and with the former Túischac'h (finally!) continuing as an MC, I suggest we return to normal precedent and invite the outgoing incument @Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP open nominations for the position of Túischac'h.

Quote from: xpb on September 16, 2026, 11:28:58 AMI have surgery on Friday 19 Sep 26.

I confirm AD PayPal $5 on 2 Sep 26 transaction ending in ..6514
I confirm MA PayPal $5 on 5 Sep 26 transaction ending in ..180F

Thank you Sir XPB and I hope your surgery goes well. Is there no record of Eðo's 10$ donation around 2 September?

Quote from: Glüc on September 16, 2026, 03:45:38 PMBdC has been ahead for the entire edition, but they have felt the breath of Naziun Cjovani in their neck ever since the crash of Pogacar and in the end losing Pogacar, Tarling, Vine proved too much in the final sprint.

If I had one louis for every time a team has lead from stage 2 to 21 and then lost on EoT I would have 2 louis. Which is weird etc etc

Sure thing. For what is worth, the Senate has its own provisions for determining questions of eligibility such as this one, and I'm not interested in keeping seats vacant rather than moving on with our jobs either. If no info from the Treasury is forthcoming in the next few days, I will just rely on each of you's honour and let the Senate determine by itself if everything is in order.

Azul, just a few words on where the Senäts is at, now that the Cosă is starting to fill up.

First off, pursuant to Standing Rule of the Senate 1.1, a new term has started, meaning the terms of Sir Iason Taiwos, Baron Alexandreu Davinescu and Éovart Grischun have expired.

This would also mean the new incoming Senators should get seated, but I haven't received any word from the BoIR about their fee payment status. However, Senators-elect Autófil and Grischun have at least announced they did pay.

For the time being, the Chancery is inclined to wait a little longer before seating the new Senators, hoping that @xpb can shed some light on whether all of the fees have been correctly paid. Failing that, I would please ask @Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be , @Eðo Grischun and @Baron Alexandreu Davinescu to get in touch with me with a payment receipt, so we can get the process expedited a little.




Sir Lüc da Schir
Secretar d'Estat / Secretary of State

Quote from: Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC on September 15, 2026, 05:42:42 PMYes, hello, question. Is there any provision for the URL leadership to "delegate" seat assignments to a provincial party leadership?

I think by widely accepted precedent (that parties may have provincial leaders) the answer is yes.

Quote from: Baron Alexandreu Davinescu on September 05, 2026, 09:45:24 PMBrad Holmes will receive the seats from the Progressive Alliance.

Looks like he will control a majority of seats in the HoC. Is he prepared to amend the Constitution as outlined above?

Quote from: Marcel Eðo Pairescu Tafial, UrGP on September 15, 2026, 09:49:20 AM

QuoteAs a reminder, the maximum number of seats that can be held by a single MC is 37 (30 * 200 / (2 * 82)).

Should the cap not be 30, since the calcuation includes PRESENT votes?

Huh. Yes it should. I may have completely dreamt up a provision that has never existed even before the recent amendment. Not sure why I had the impression that only votes cast for parties counted. (Especially since I've done this correctly before!)

Quick fee check: I think all parties but IG/A-S had paid prior to the election, and I've been told (but not verified by BoIR) that Garth did pay his fee around the end of August. So I think everyone is free to assign seats.

As for the Senate, I believe Eðo and Mic'haglh have paid their winner's fee (also pending BoIR verification) and @Baron Alexandreu Davinescu either still has to pay or hasn't announced he already paid.

@xpb , can you confirm all of this is accurate on the Treasury's end? - thank you!

With the election certified, it's my pleasure to open seat allocations for the 63rd Cosă.

The seats to be allocated are:

Progressive Alliance: 88 seats @Baron Alexandreu Davinescu
Uniun dels Reformistaes Livereschti: 83 seats @Mic'haglh Autófil, O.Be & @Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC
Green Party: 12 seats @Crement Itravilatx
Independent Green/Anarcho-Surrealist: 10 seats @Garth Spencer
Independent Progressive: 7 seats @Breneir Tzaracomprada 

As a reminder, the maximum number of seats that can be held by a single MC is 30. Off-list MCs are no longer allowed.

The deadline for certification having passed, the Electoral Commission has voted to certify the results. Pursuant to Lex.E.B.13.7, I declare the commission dissolved, with many thanks to all three members for their service.




Sir Lüc da Schir
Secretar d'Estat / Secretary of State

Final points still to come, but congrats @Iason Taiwos for winning TCAT Spain 2026! Commiserations to BdC and Velociposse, who finish on the podium, and congratulations to the Manilows for the final stagewin and a best-ever fourth place in the edition.

It briefly seemed like there was some hope for BdC, with Visma going for Brennan instead of van Aert, and Widar also featuring at the front - but not only Brennan missed the opportunity to join the three riders who attacked last and sprinted for the win, only finishing fourth, Cjovani's Tobias Johannessen was also somehow able to recover from his effort yesterday and managed a stunning stage victory.

Brief update on electoral certification: as of a couple days ago, one member has wrapped up his job and voted to certify with no concerns raised, while I haven't heard anything back from the other two (one of them has not engaged at all beyond confirming his willingness to serve, almost two months ago).

We will wrap up on the 15th as per the default deadline. I'm sorry to say that the recurring problem of inactive commissioners, despite specific pleas from myself at the beginning of the process, is noted and will be addressed in time for the next General Election.

The final stage, later today, is a short, Montmartre-like final stage which will favour punchy sprinters. Wout van Aert is the likely favourite.

Position battles when accounting for End of Tour points follow.

The podium is basically set in stone:

• BdC needs approximately 270 stage points more than Cjovani to keep the lead. This necessarily implies WvA being tired and Visma-LAB's efforts shifting to Brennan instead. Not impossible, but also Cjovani can score assist points with Kuss, WvA and Armirail, so even Brennan winning would not be enough.
• Velociposse is basically guaranteed third place - wide virtual gaps in front and back. It currently sits amidst a podium fight group of four, but is going to score way more EoT points than MAN, GHS and CHX.

Bit muddier for fourth to eighth:

• Fourth place is likely either going to REX or MAN. As above, REX is going to score way more EoT points than MAN, GHS and CHX - actually, the second most of anyone, just 85 fewer than Cjovani. Both REX and MAN have Brenner so he's not going to factor in; MAN has Brennan (as above), REX has Bilbao (a surprise attempt in his last career Vuelta stage?)
• Sixth to eighth, 125 points behind MAN, we find PTM, CHX and GHS in little more than 100 points. Any permutation is possible depending on how today goes. CHX is the other team with Van Aert - if he wins, maybe with some Camprubi points, and there's little going for the others, they may well finish fifth or even fourth.

Ninth, tenth and eleventh, DED, CFA and MMM, almost certainly in this order. Unless Vermaerke saves MMM!

Stage 20  »  La Calahorra  ›  Collado del Alguacil

The queen stage of this edition saw a stunning reversal of fortunes, as Naziun Cjovani almost entirely made up its current points gap to BdC while simultaneously getting a significant boost in End of Tour points.

It wasn't a TCAT rider who won today, but Tobias Halland Johannessen (CJO/MAN/VFL) came second, in a first significant boost to the Belacostan team's fortunes; and also significantly, eighth came Sepp Kuss (CJO/PTM/REX), who had been losing time in GC lately but managed to attack midway through and to get assisted by teammates Van Aert and Nordhagen in making back as much time as possible. His efforts were rewarded with a 6 places bump in GC to 5th, which will more than double his EoT points intake.

This also means Oscar Onley (BDC/CHX/DED/PTM) and Jakob Omrzel (BDC/PTM) get bumped down a place in GC; they finished 19th and 20th, but way down on time, as they got dropped from the GC leaders group midway through. No changes in the remaining top spots of GC: Enric Mas (BDC/MAN/REX/VFL, 14th in the stage) is confirmed to be the winner of the 2026 Vuelta, despite losing a little time to Felix Gall (CJO, 13th). The Austrian also gained more time on Primoz Roglic (CJO/PTM/VFL, 15th), but not enough to replace him at second place. Fourth will remain Richard Carapaz (GHS/REX, 18th), who tried to attack numerous times throughout the stage in an effort to make a bid for the podium, but was unsuccessful.

Naziun Cjovani is of course far and away the winner of the day (9th stagewin this season and 24th overall - now alone at third most ever).

Standings after stage 20:

Pos	±		Team	Pts Ove	Pts Today
1st	(=)		Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs (BDC)	6903	+224
2nd	(=)		Naziun Cjovani (CJO)	6827	+573
3rd	(=)		Cyclohexane (CHX)	5573	+121
4th	(+2)		Velociposse Florencia (VFL)	5496	+373
5th	(=)		The Manilows (MAN)	5453	+310
6th	(-2)		Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)	5335	+98
7th	(=)		Port Maxhestic AC (PTM)	4743	+190
8th	(=)		Els Talossaes Rexhital (REX)	4737	+205
9th	(=)		Dirnalaiset Mortescu (DED)	3444	+68
10th	(=)		Maritiimi-Maxhestic Mençeis (MMM)	3422	+77
11th	(=)		Cézembre Fieschā (CFA)	3326	+33

Stage 18 (ITT)  »  El Puerto de Santa María  ›  Jerez de la Frontera

The second and longer individual team trial was, as predicted, a Cjovani-led affair; the Belacostan team had the potential to put as many as five or six riders in the points, to most other teams's one or two. And indeed, while non-TCAT riders got first and second, CJO placed Almeida in third, Roglic in fourth, van Aert in fifth, Armirail in seventh and Chamberlain in thirteenth, winning the stage by a wide margin and making back almost 500 points on BDC.

The stage result is deceptive, though: GC leader Enric Mas, thought to be doomed to dropping around 1:30 minutes to (much more competent time trialist) Primoz Roglic, actually limited his losses to just 33 seconds from the Slovene, placing 12th in a performance that could very well seal the deal in his bid to win the general classification. This is very good news for BDC, of course, as is the good performance of Oscar Onley, who placed 17th after somewhat struggling during the second week. Conversely, Felix Gall and Richard Carapaz performed about as expected and limited their losses, while Matthias Skjelmose, initially thought to be the other somewhat competent time trialist other than Roglic, floundered to a lowly 28th, losing time to all other GC riders except for Kuss.

This all means that, while the score delta between Cjovani and BDC is about what was to be expected, the situation in the general classification has not changed enough for Cjovani to have an advantage in End of Tour points (worsened a bit, actually, because of Sepp Kuss losing time). If the Belacostans want to win their second TCAT edition more than four years after their first, they will have to get 450 more stage points in the remaining three stages, plain and simple.

Standings after stage 18:

Pos	±		Team	Pts Ove	Pts Today
1st	(=)		Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs (BDC)	6531	+132
2nd	(=)		Naziun Cjovani (CJO)	6080	+628
3rd	(+1)		Cyclohexane (CHX)	5259	+172
4th	(-1)		Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)	5154	+39
5th	(=)		The Manilows (MAN)	5077	+84
6th	(=)		Velociposse Florencia (VFL)	4996	+254
7th	(=)		Port Maxhestic AC (PTM)	4403	+224
8th	(=)		Els Talossaes Rexhital (REX)	4386	+371
9th	(=)		Dirnalaiset Mortescu (DED)	3309	+49
10th	(=)		Maritiimi-Maxhestic Mençeis (MMM)	3254	+240
11th	(=)		Cézembre Fieschā (CFA)	3093	+184

Random stuff to spice up update:

- This will in all likelihood be the first season in which all three editions were won by three different teams, except for the very first 2022 season, which however only had two legs and seven participants.

- Should BDC or CHX win two more stages, and/or CJO win three more stages, this will be the first season with more than two teams on double digit stage wins. CJO has also recently became the sixth team to win 20 or more stages in the history of TCAT, and currently sits at 22 wins, one fewer than third placed Cyclohexane.

- GHS and REX are already on double digits at 11 apiece; REX has a real chance to be the first team to win the most stages in a season without winning any legs of the season, while GHS has increasingly little chances left to win their maiden stage in this edition, and continue their perfect streak of always winning at least a stage in each edition they entered.

Stage 16  »  Cortegana  ›  La Rábida. Palos de la Frontera

Welcome to week 3, the last one of the season! Fairly standard sprint stage which unsurprisingly saw Matthew Brennan (BDC/GHS) get a fourth stagewin. Though it is not a Brennan team who prevails today, but rather Naziun Cjovani, with Van Aert and Albanese respectively 6th and 8th, and many assists from Brennan's first place. A bit disappointing for BDC, who no doubt was hoping to gain back a few points, and for GHS, who got very close to finally winning a stage thanks to De Jong in 14th, but has to settle for second.

Not much to report otherwise and today is likely going to be similar, with the final pure sprint stage of this edition.

Standings after stage 16: (Edit: fixed after I used wrong overall/swings)

Pos	±		Team	Pts Ove	Pts Today
1st	(=)		Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs (BDC)	6101	+300
2nd	(=)		Naziun Cjovani (CJO)	5307	+313
3rd	(=)		Cyclohexane (CHX)	4907	+206
4th	(=)		Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)	4843	+304
5th	(+1)		The Manilows (MAN)	4721	+268
6th	(-1)		Velociposse Florencia (VFL)	4611	+145
7th	(=)		Port Maxhestic AC (PTM)	4100	+75
8th	(=)		Els Talossaes Rexhital (REX)	3915	+100
9th	(=)		Dirnalaiset Mortescu (DED)	3220	+120
10th	(=)		Maritiimi-Maxhestic Mençeis (MMM)	3014	+41
11th	(=)		Cézembre Fieschā (CFA)	2880	+33

Quote from: Tierçéu Rôibeardescù on September 05, 2026, 12:18:14 PMjust double checking, as i didnt put myself down on the database vote, I know as a civil servent i cant run for MC but is this the same for regional assemblies?

You can totally run for MC! The only civil servant who can't hold seats in the Ziu is the Secretary of State.