Article IV, Section 3 of the Organic Law of the Kingdom of Talossa says: "In the case of vacant party seats occurring between elections, the Secretary of State shall inform the King and the leader of whatever party held the vacant seat. The King shall appoint a replacement to each vacancy. If the seat belonged to a party with a functioning party leader, the King must appoint as a replacement whichever person shall be so designated by that party's leader."

Your Majesty, I am hereby designating Tong Mun Kit and Moinul Moin as replacements for these vacant party seats.

The Progressive list was:

• Mximo Carbonel
• Sir X. Pol Brigă
• Baron Alexandreu Davinescu
• Baroness Litz Cjantscheir
• Eovart Xhorxh
• Françal Ian Lux
• Tric'hard Lenxheir
• Þerxh Sant-Enogat

Well, Mximo Carbonel, Þerxh Sant-Enogat, and I are in the Senats.  Françal and XPB are already in the Cosa.  Of the remaining individuals, the Baroness is incommunicado and likely to remain so, and I haven't heard from Eovart.  Tric'hard is gone.  So out of these eight people, five of them are already in the Ziu.  The others are not really possibilities.

Voting on the May 2026 Clark (the fourth of the 62nd Cosă) is now open, until the 21st of the month, at 19h30 TST.

You can find the Clark at: https://database.talossa.com/ziu/clark (database) or at https://wiki.talossa.com/images/9/9e/May2026Clark.pdf (pdf)

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Sir Lüc da Schir, UrB
Secretary of State

Senators, you can cast your votes on the Fourth Clark here or on the database: https://database.talossa.com/ziu/clark/vote

You can find the Clark at: https://database.talossa.com/ziu/clark (database) or at https://wiki.talossa.com/images/9/9e/May2026Clark.pdf (pdf)

If you vote here on Witt, do not indicate any conditions which may make it sound like this vote isn't final: you can always change your vote later.

Members of the Cosă, you can cast your votes on the Fourth Clark here or on the database: https://database.talossa.com/ziu/clark/vote

You can find the Clark at: https://database.talossa.com/ziu/clark (database) or at https://wiki.talossa.com/images/9/9e/May2026Clark.pdf (pdf)

If you vote here on Witt, do not indicate any conditions which may make it sound like this vote isn't final: you can always change your vote later.

I might have overlooked a substantial issue. I'm afraid that, unless I am mistaken, this would mean the Progressive Alliance allocation is:

* On-list candidates: 40 *
Lux 20
Brigă 20

* Off-list candidates: 47 *
Lupul 20
Tong 20
Moin 7

Pursuant to Lex.B.2.3.1.1.3, "The total number of seats awarded to those not on the list does not exceed 1/3 of all seats won by the party". 47 being over 87/3 = 29, I am unable to honour the Seneschal's reallocation request.

For the time being, Tong Mun Kit has been reverted to the 7 seats he already held, and Moinul Moin will hold 2 seats, for a total of 29 off-list seats. 69 seats are filled, and 18 seats will stand vacant.

I'm sorry I didn't catch this earlier - I was on a rush and misremembered the Duke of Lupul as being an on-list MC.

Quote from: varoneglan on April 30, 2026, 11:04:31 PMI am wondering if it would be acceptable, in the spirit of transnational cooperation and friendship, for me to submit a recipe on behalf of the Republic of Slaterya? (I am currently Minister of Arts and Culture, and as such have some authority in matters of cuisine.)

Of course! Please feel free to send the recipe here by private message or via email to copebh@gmail.com

I am wondering if it would be acceptable, in the spirit of transnational cooperation and friendship, for me to submit a recipe on behalf of the Republic of Slaterya? (I am currently Minister of Arts and Culture, and as such have some authority in matters of cuisine.)

Quote from: Mximo Malt on December 23, 2025, 11:29:07 AMIf I am ever appointed ambassador to your land, I really hope we can establish very cordial relations between our two lands.

It would be an honor to work with you, Mr. Malt. Slaterya has lain dormant for some time, but I am hoping to revive activity in the country; who knows what it may lead to?

Another idea I proposed a while ago but never went back and fleshed out was a transition to multiple readings of bills and a moving away from the monthly schedule along with the potential for free-floating confidence votes as well. I was working on it here with the Three Readings Amendment and thought there had been some expressions of support for the idea in the past.