(Dated 25 August 2021)
News at Three:
KARMER CONTESTED BY GHANSOLAWEN
In the few hours immediately following major announcements regarding a Labour leadership election and the transfer of the acting prime minister position from Riannar Karmer to Arlin Klements, former Deputy Prime Minister Kimbet Ghansolawen, who served under former Labour Prime Minister Verlhanz Rothgerus, has announced he will be contesting his old cabinet colleague Riannar Karmer as Labour leader and subsequently prime minister.
The Labour veteran, who is currently 81, has enjoyed a fifty one year spell as Member of Parliament for North Gallings. Ghansolawen is the third longest continually serving MP, having begun his tenure on election day in 1970, one day before a national coalition - forming the Crowcasa War cabinet - would declare war on the Grand Matriarchy of Ethalria, beginning the Auroran Imperial War.
Critics of his age and controversial past have been batted down by those allied with Ghansolawen. Factoring in the age of Rothgerus at his exit as premier; 84, and the ever pressing controversial agenda of candidate Riannar Karmer, whom Ghansolawen followers say ‘is attempting to uproot the MBE’, go on to also say that Ghansolawen is ‘our best voice of old Labour’.
No other Labour MPs have yet put themselves forth as candidates for the election.