Pierot-Motisse Reformations

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A poster from the Pierot-Motisse Reformations, supporting the change in government. Larger picture is here
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The Pierot-Motisse Reformations was a central turning point in Costa Bravan history. Prior to the Reformations in 1985, the government operated through a bipartisan Republican government (the parties being Les Republiques and Les Gardons), in which the populace elects forty-two representatives to the Congress Assembly of Costa Bravo, as well as nominate two candidates for the office of Regent. Subsequently, the Congress Assembly would hold a series of voting sessions to elect one of the two nominees, as did the commonwealth. The elections were treated as a sort of "rock, paper, scissors" event. Should a nominee win both Congress and commonwealth votes, then they would rise to office. Should the Congress and commonwealth votes differ in their outcomes, then the office-holding Regent would decide the victor. The loser would traditionally go into exile or commit ritual seppuku in the center of the Forum of Tortuga, with a dull spoon.

However, as of February 8th, 1985, the office-holding Regent (Jacques Pierot) invoked his power as Executive Officer and decided to dissolved this system of government and implement a more "civilized, contemporary government" for the Armed Republic of Costa Bravo. The Reformations abolished the previous bipartisan ways and implemented a nonpartisan government with Monarchic themes. The Congress Assembly of Costa Bravo was dissolved, and was instead replaced by the Parliament of Costa Bravo, an assembly of one hundred elected officials, not unlike the United States House of Representatives. Instead of the entire country electing forty-two representatives, Costa Bravo was divided into fifty separate geographical and/or cultural regions, each of which elected two representatives into the Parliament. Partisan ties were outlawed under the new system. The election of Regent was relegated entirely to the Parliament, though the commonwealth do retain a small say in the matter, by electing twenty nominees for Regent in tandem with the Parliamentary elections. However, after the nominations, the commonwealth had no further way to influence the Regent elections, nor did the office-holding Regent. In tandem with the previous changes, Jacques Pierot also relegated an increased amount of executive power to the office of Regent, and removed various checks-and-balances hindering the operation of both the executive office and Parliament. Consequently, he completely dissolved the Judicial Branch, and relegated judicial systems to be handled by local authorities.

The -Motisse portion of the Pierot-Motisse Reformations came from Pierot's senior advisor at the time of the Reformations, Bilbo Motisse. Bilbo Motisse aided in advising and tweaking Pierot's prospective alterations prior to its announcement.