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= After That =
The ''Premier of Tárrases'' is the head of government for the [[Tárrases|Duchy of Tárrases]], the chief executive minister of the cabinet serving under the [[Carapreta Dynasty|Duke or Duchess]], who is the head of state. The position was established by the 1920 Basic Law that serves as the autonomous city-state's constitution. Although elections have been declared "free and fair" by numerous international agencies, every Premier since 1920 has been a member of the Tarrasean [[Partido Soberano]] ("Partido Negro"). Thus the election process for the Premier is ''de facto'' carried out at the level of the party-internal election of the leadership of the party, however, since law allows non-party members to participate in this process, the selection is thus fairly democratic.
''by [[Parménides Guie]]''


Some people swore that the house was haunted.
= History =


The new house was probably haunted from the start.  From the day it was built, on the edge of the forest, there was a moodiness that would settle upon anyone who spent more than a few minutes near the modest, blue-tile-roofed farmhouse that squatted at the edge of the forest.
= List of Premiers =


Perhaps it could be blamed on the man who built it.  Señor Chue was a taciturn man.  He would sit on the stoop in the evenings, smoking cigarettes and scratching himself.  People said one could overhear him talking, frequently.  But he lived alone.
Key:
*Order: The ordinal number of the Premier
*Years: Years served as Premier
*Name: Name of the Premier
*Party: Party affiliation
*Sovereign: Duke(s) or Duchess(es) under which served
*Notes: Observations or notable occurances


He'd inherited the land from his parents, who had died in a bus accident on the new highway, ten years ago.  He'd come back from the city, bitter and scandalously divorced at forty.  The storekeeper said that Chue thought that if he built a new house, he could attract a second wife.
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  ! style="width:15%" | Party
  ! style="width:20%;" | Sovereign
  ! class="unsortable" | Notes
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  | 1
  | 1920-1944
  | [[Gerardo McKay]]
  | [[Partido Soberano]]
  | Cleopatra I
  | Author of the 1920 Basic Law and founder of the party
|-
  | 2
  | 1944-1953
  | [[Leocasta Debesseremet]]
  | [[Partido Soberano]]
  | Cleopatra I
  |
|-
  | 3
  | 1953-1954
  | [[Alejandro Vivaldi]]
  | [[Partido Soberano]]
  | Cleopatra I
  |
|-
  | 4
  | 1954-1967
  | [[Nicolás García de Montano]]
  | [[Partido Soberano]]
  | Cleopatra I, Roberto, José III
  |
|-
  | 5
  | 1967-1994
  | [[Miranda Nicolaides]]
  | [[Partido Soberano]]
  | José III
  | Longest-serving Premier
|-
  | 6
  | 1994-1999
  | [[Bartolomeo Cunningham]]
  | [[Partido Soberano]]
  | José III
  |
|-
  | 7
  | 1994-1999
  | [[Miguel Ángel Castillo Castillo]]
  | [[Partido Soberano]]
  | José III
  |
|-
  | 8
  | 2002-2008
  | [[Bartolomeo Cunningham]]
  | [[Partido Soberano]]
  | José III, Cleopatra II
  |
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  | 9
  | 2008-
  | [[Dimitrio Angelopoulos]]
  | [[Partido Soberano]]
  | Cleopatra II
  |
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Sturdily constructed, it was unxpectedly made to look traditional, as if in the old country.  Señor Chue was the type of man one would normally expect to go for a fancy, modern-style house:  a flat roof, concrete walls, topiary bushes in a row in front and a Finira in the driveway.  Perhaps it was an homage to his deceased father, who'd been a skilled craftsman and builder.  The house had a curving roof with rough-hewn eaves of raw wood, and sliding doors, almost like a temple building, but simpler.
= See Also =


Some people said the man had chosen the spot for his house badly.  There were some graves, in among the trees on the hillside.  There are graves everywhere, in the Ardisphere.  Ancestors are thick on the ground.
* [[Tárrases]]


Some of these graves were Señor Chue's ancestors - including his parents and back several generations, since they'd settled the area just before the Civil War.  Perhaps he'd forgotten about his grandmother.  She had been a terrible, frightening woman.  Rumor said that during the repressions, decades ago, she'd collaborated with the Guardia, and had been responsible for the deaths of several dozen villagers.  Because of her, no one completely trusted the Chue family, even now.  The Chues didn't go to church or temple, either.  They really weren't good, modern Ardispherians.
[[Category:Tárrases]]
 
It was the temple deacon's wife, Señora Sung, who swore that the new house was haunted.  She would point out that the Chue family had been shamans, generations ago, in the old country, and that Señor Chue probably still practiced secret, pagan rituals.  He had placed some wooden ''jang-seung'' - the traditional, carved, protective totem poles - at the turning to the driveway to the house.  Probably, his father had made them.  "Superstitious," the woman spat, as she gossiped at the store.
 
All anyone saw him doing, though, was working his fields.  And talking to himself, sometimes.  He made a peculiar farmer - some noted that he was supposedly well-educated, with a university degree.  Supposedly, he had led a student strike, back in the time when that Nihonish woman, Shinoda, had become president.
 
But people dismissed the gossip, for the most part.  They just left Señor Chue alone.
 
Then, one spring evening, several of the older women were walking along the road by the house.  The sun was already behind the hills, making the sky orange and pink.  The air was full of smoke from burning the stubble, after cutting the spring barley.  The earth was muddy and red-black, dotted with flecks of gold.
 
The women had paused their conversation.  Suddenly they heard shouting, very clearly.  The women turned and stared at the house, across a field of freshly planted hot peppers.
 
Señor Chue came running out of his handsome house, his longish, dishevelled hair flying. He ran off among the trees, waving an axe.  The women saw him strike at one of the burial mounds repeatly with the axe, weeping.
 
Nothing was ever the same again after that.
 
<span style="font-size:80%">- Translated from [[Gohangukian]] to [[Ingerish]] by [[Melissa So]] from the original story, "그다음에," published in 1954, and printed in the [[Arksbury International University|Arksbury International University Press]] collection ''Literature of the Gohanian Diaspora, Part II, 20th Century'', 1985. Released by author and translator to the public domain.</span>

Latest revision as of 21:57, 1 May 2019

The Premier of Tárrases is the head of government for the Duchy of Tárrases, the chief executive minister of the cabinet serving under the Duke or Duchess, who is the head of state. The position was established by the 1920 Basic Law that serves as the autonomous city-state's constitution. Although elections have been declared "free and fair" by numerous international agencies, every Premier since 1920 has been a member of the Tarrasean Partido Soberano ("Partido Negro"). Thus the election process for the Premier is de facto carried out at the level of the party-internal election of the leadership of the party, however, since law allows non-party members to participate in this process, the selection is thus fairly democratic.

History

List of Premiers

Key:

  • Order: The ordinal number of the Premier
  • Years: Years served as Premier
  • Name: Name of the Premier
  • Party: Party affiliation
  • Sovereign: Duke(s) or Duchess(es) under which served
  • Notes: Observations or notable occurances
Order Years Name Party Sovereign Notes
1 1920-1944 Gerardo McKay Partido Soberano Cleopatra I Author of the 1920 Basic Law and founder of the party
2 1944-1953 Leocasta Debesseremet Partido Soberano Cleopatra I
3 1953-1954 Alejandro Vivaldi Partido Soberano Cleopatra I
4 1954-1967 Nicolás García de Montano Partido Soberano Cleopatra I, Roberto, José III
5 1967-1994 Miranda Nicolaides Partido Soberano José III Longest-serving Premier
6 1994-1999 Bartolomeo Cunningham Partido Soberano José III
7 1994-1999 Miguel Ángel Castillo Castillo Partido Soberano José III
8 2002-2008 Bartolomeo Cunningham Partido Soberano José III, Cleopatra II
9 2008- Dimitrio Angelopoulos Partido Soberano Cleopatra II

See Also

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