Pelasgia
Established Nation
The Propontis Press Agency (Προπόντιον Πρακτορεῖον Τύπου, ΠΠΤ) or PPT, is the main news agency of Pelasgia, which funnels news from the country to both domestic and foreign news sources, while providing a Pelasgian coverage of international news. It also produces international dispatches of the main Pelasgian press media:
- The newspaper Propontios Logothetis, a liberal and shipping-magnate-owned newspaper from the Pelasgian capital of Propontis
- The newspaper Chronographos, a conservative and aristocratic-owned newspaper from Thermi, Pelasgia's second largest city
- The newspaper Alitheia, a left-wing newspaper from Pyrgos, the port district of Pelasgia
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ΠΡΟΠΟΝΤΙΟΣ ΛΟΓΟΘΕΤΗΣ
Προποντίς | Ἠμέρα: Δευτέρα 3 Αὐγούστου 1920 | Ἐκδ.: Ἀνδρέας Νερουλᾶς
(The Propontios Logothetis of August 3, 1920 - Editor: Andreas Neroulas)
ELECTIONS AROUND THE CORNER
The parliamentary leader of the governing People's Party, Mr. Alexios Metaxas, let it slip on Sunday morning during discussions after the day's Divine Liturgy at the Patriarchal Cathedral of Divine Providence in Propontis that elections are likely around the corner. Mr. Metaxas has reportedly found that popular opposition to the Government's refusal to aid the scores of rural workers who have flocked to the Nation's major cities since the end of the war, including many veterans of the Great War, might lead to large-scale protests supported by the opposition. Given increasing opposition to the Government's reactionary policies by circles within the military, the government might very well be forced into elections either way; as such, Mr. Metaxas has likely judged that it is more advantageous to go into an election cycle without a major string of anti-Government protests having already occurred. Opposition groups, led by the Liberal Union's Mr. Eleutherios Thalassinos, the Member for Therisus, have called for elections immediately, citing the "blatant loss of public confidence" in the Government following the July 28th violent clashes between Gendarmes and many of the internal migrants in the city of Daphni, a few kilometers away from Propontis. (continued on p. 3).
TALKS BETWEEN LIBERAL UNION, DEMOCRATIC COALITION BEAR FRUIT
Several Senators of the Liberal Union and the Democratic Coalition have reportedly agreed to a preliminary merger proposal following talks at a joint congress over the weekend. The two factions form the largest opposition groups in the Chamber of Deputies, the elected lower house of the Senate of the Pelasgian Republic. Several deputies from both factions have voiced discontent with the division among the opposition, which has allowed the People's Party to reign supreme, following a short stint of Liberal Union power after the Empire's defeat in the Great War. "Pelasgia is still ruled by the same nobles and clerics who led her to ruin," said Ioannes Iordanides, the leader of the emerging coalition between secular, republican opposition groups. The new part, apparently named the "National Republican Party" or EPK for Ethnikón Politeiakón Kómma, is set to run on a platform of social democracy, nationalism, secularism, liberalism, centralism, and modernisation. This has upset the federalist wing of the Democratic Coalition, but has found support among many of Pelasgia's bourgeois capitalists, who realise that some degree of social solidarity is necessary to progress Pelasgia into a fully industrial society and to convince the populace to vote away the privileges of the reactionary nobles and agrarianist clergy. (continued on p. 5).
POPULATION EXCHANGE PROGRESSING SMOOTHLY
Population exchange near the western border of the Republic is progressing as planned, with evacuations of minority residents and inflows of Pelasgians from ceded territories progressing smoothly and without issue. International humanitarian agencies are aiding with the resettlement of the refugees, while the lands left by those leaving on either side are left to those moving in. Of course, such an exchange is not always equivalent, both sides often trade more educated and skilled populations from each other's urban centres for peasants and unskilled workers. (continued on p. 7).
COUNCIL OF STATE TO HEAR DEPARTMENT DISPUTE OVER BORDER
The Council of State, the upper house of the Senate of the Republic which also acts Pelasgia's highest court, has granted leave to appeal to the Department of Pierrheia against the Department of Pelagonia over a land border dispute between the two entities. The dispute centres on an interpretation of a 19th century Imperial Decree which set the border between the two Departments at the Hieron River, which has since shifted to the west. The Court of Cassation for Administrative Matters has already found in favour of Pelagonia, though it is likely that the Judicial Committee of the Council of State might reverse that decision, partly to curry favour with the notables of Pierrheia, who have traditionally opposed the Propontis Government's centralist tendencies. (continued on p. 8).
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