[centre][h1][u][colour=FF8430]Democratic Alliance for Reform[/colour][/u][/h1]
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They'd done it. Samuel Bassong's dream, new enough to him that he could remember—fresh in his mind—the day back in Houston when he first imagined it, had come true. After so many weeks of sweat and toil, of fundraising and speeches and drives and flights, the Democratic Alliance for Reform had come out as the victors in Samgola's General Election. The D.A.R., whose leaders had arrived in Kamidye on the heels of the civil war's end as a band of émigrés with idealistic values, had clawed their way from third party status to the very top of the political ladder. Once an overly ambitious city councillor in urban Texas, Samuel Bassong was now President-Elect of the country of his birth, an ocean away from the state he'd been raised in and called home for so many decades.

Samgola had grown on him so far, but he still knew no other time in the country but election time. And for Samuel, the election time was not yet over, even as the votes from the second round had been counted and he'd learned of his ascension to the presidency. Rather than celebrating his victory with any enthusiasm, Samuel immediately set to work, trying to cobble together a coalition. He'd met and talked with, both on the phone and in person, members of all three other major political parties in Samgola. The political realities of his party's mediocre showing in the National Assembly necessitated the formation of an alliance of parties, the sort of thing Samuel, as a raised American, was not deeply familiar with: yet, as in the election, he had succeeded.

The Prime Minister, of course, would be his second in command, Ephraim Yombi, the Deputy Leader of the D.A.R. Ephraim had been indisposable in the campaign, and his close personal friendship to the President-Elect made him a perfect pick for ensuring that President Bassong's objectives as head of state would remain the focus of the National Assembly's governing coalition. Serving alongside the D.A.R. in parliament would be two smaller parties, though the Liberal Democrats were only just. For their 63 seats in the National Assembly, the L.D. had demanded four of ten positions in the cabinet, an able representation that would give their free-market ideals considerable sway in the new government. Providing less seats to the majority, but still finding representation in cabinet with one seat, would be the Samgola Patriotic Party; natural allies, who had supported many of D.A.R.'s policies in the national debate and on the campaign trail. Their 15 seats, combined with L.D.'s 63 and the D.A.R.'s own 65, would provide the new coalition government, the so-called "Liberty Coalition", with some 143 seats in the National Assembly—over two dozen more than was strictly necessary for the barest majority. Hopefully, the three parties' ideals of liberty and their unified opposition to the old National Regime would help them to keep their differences aside, and ensure legislation could pass easily enough through the National Assembly of Samgola. If Samuel wanted to [i]stay[/i] President, he'd have to deliver on his promises, and do so well enough to satisfy the eighteen million Samgolans that had placed their trust in him to lead the state. It was sure to be a trial, but Samuel Bassong, ever ambitious, was eager to proceed.
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[hider=Liberty Coalition Cabinet]

[b]Prime Minister/Head of Government:[/b] Ephraim Yombi, DAR.

[b]Transportation & Urban Development:[/b] Jayamma Gobeni, DAR.

[b]Education[/b]: Tayo Wazekwa, DAR.

[b]Security:[/b] David Desange, DAR.

[b]Agriculture:[/b] Mansa Kwesi, DAR.

[b]Trade & Finance:[/b] Yembe Songè, LD.

[b]Welfare:[/b] Anna Bokito, LD.

[b]Labor/Health:[/b] Dominic Malembe, LD.

[b]State/Foreign Affairs:[/b] Charles Mpeya, LD.

[b]Defense:[/b] Oluwasegun Teleola, SPP.[/hider]