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Oscar Rios has just visited the Imperial Palace to be sworn in as the first Prime Minister of the reunited Empire. His broadly populist party, the National Unity Party, won a landslide majority in a snap election called after the North was united with the South while the traditional centre parties, PLP and PMP saw their vote collapse. Rios was a survivor of the Mendoza nuclear bombing which he claims made him realise that his destiny was to bring the Empire back together. This led him to joining the Pyroxian Imperial Party which was dying at the time. He led a re branding of the party into the NUP and removed its toxic far right elements. His campaign was focused on restoring national pride through policies such as increased military spending and less migration as well as the restoration of nuclear weapons. Rios was accused of being too anti-USoN and peddling conspiracy theories about Nestler being the leader of some globalist cabal however he says his first phone call as PM will be to President Nestler to discuss the future of the transatlantic relationship. Rios also plans to call President Cromwell of Anglo-Wales who is in the process of leaving office following his impeachment and decision by the Parliament to reinstate the last election results. This shows that Rios has intentions to restore Pyrox to the front of the world stage as a leading world power.

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This all came following a referendum held in December on the unification of Pyrox after the NUP gained support in both the Empire and the Republic. Economic crisis and the NUP winning the senate in the North forced President Torres to approve the referendum which Prime Minister Delgado was also forced to accept after her party started haemorrhaging support. Unification won 65% in the North and 89% in the South, with restoring the Empire being the most popular form of unification. Following the referendum, the border was opened and the process of reunification was begun with Torres and Delgado forming a unity commission. On June 1st, President Torres resigned and the constitution of the Republic was repealed thus completing the unification. Celebrations followed but also outbreaks of violence by continuation forces of the RR who are trying to keep Daniel Worth's legacy alive. Delgado was forced to call an election which she knew she would lose and she had to endure a scandal after police began an investigation into her alleged involvement in the assassination of Thomas Wright but nothing was proved. Her last act of office was to approve the expulsion of Mestizolia from TATO following proof that it was funding terrorist groups in the Med Islands and supporting Materellas attempts to force out the TATO occupation force. After conceding defeat to Rios and submitting her resignation to the Emperor, she said "Populism is dangerous, we saw it with Silva who apparently may return from exile as Foreign Secretary, and we will see it with Rios. I have spent the last 3 years rebuilding my country in the hope to make it fairer on the poorest and restore the country's pride following the outrages committed by my predecessor. It is sad to leave office, but I have hope that Labour will return and populism will be defeated.