Orange Revolution

Orange Revolution also known as Crisis of the 58', the 1058 Crisis, the Constitutional Crisis of 1058, the Aurean Crisis and more, was a political crisis that took place in the United Commonwealth between 1056 and 1059 ACA.

Commonwealth Vassalisation
Following a history of diplomatic mishaps, the United Commonwealth had an incredibly large amount of powerful enemies. Following the recent election of the politically syncretic and anti-democratic National Democratic Party under Alexei Vargas. The new Vargas administration decided that entering the Aurean sphere of influence would be able to protect their nation.

Following the Vassalisation of the Commonwealth under the Kingdom of Aurea, the public grew concerned with how the vassalisation agreement was passed in the government, with very little attention given to public opinion. The agreement itself wasn't ever reviewed for its constitutionality, and the Csar was forced to accept it despite his own reservations as is his duty.

Many pro-independence individuals felt that the major, generally authoritarian National Labour Party, National Democratic Party and democratically complacent Progressive National Union couldn't actively protect democratic rights in their country, and saw the massive decision of vassalisation as a clear representation of such ignorance. The NLP, NDP, and PNU themselves won around 90% of the total vote and 4/5 seats in the most recent election, having a massive supermajority in the parliament.

Mass Opposition
Seeing the massive shift in the political outlook of the Commonwealth, many grassroots politicians and activists met in Lipanovo for a pro-democracy political conference. Major players in this conference were future pjervod Mikolaj Olsevski, Grižegorižev Bžeñcyšcykiyvič, and future pjervod Halprin Deitsch, all representing parties across the political spectrum. Parties of all ideologies signed onto the agreement that a united front needed to be made to resist continued democratic backsliding and save the nation from an uncertain future.

Leftist organizations and parties such as the National Agrarian Party, Alliance of Social Democrats, and the Confederation of Korolian Farmers and Workers joined up with the agreement in opposition to the government. Centrist organizations and parties such as the National Democratic Union, Korolia Democracy Watch, and a variety of independent liberals would also agree to the charter. Rightist parties uch a the Conservative Party of National Rebirth, newly created League of Commonwealth Patriots, and the Asociation for Korolian Freedom would lastly rally around the charter. The pro-democracy and pro-independence coalition would initially be known as the Anti-Integration League, but would later call it the "Free Commonwealth Alliance" or FCA.

Media Fuel the Crisis
Following this, the Political Insights newspaper, ran a survey among the public to check its approval for the vassalization. The results of the poll shocked the public and the government, and would change the future of the Commonwealth forever. The results of the poll were roughly somewhere between 60-70% of the public being against vassalisation by Aurea, 5-10% being undecided or neutral on the issue, and 20%-35% being supportive of the situation.

Media were quick to pick up on the story, with the KNews media outlets talking about the subject night and day, just as the PI themselves did.

Free Commonwealth Alliance
Around this time, the aforementioned 3 politicians and their parties worked tirelessly to organize all citizens who had any doubts against the Aurean government and their ever increasing influence in the public and society, to the dismay of Alexei and Matos, the current pro-Aurean government.

During that time, the FCA (earlier FCL) was officiated into a new political coalition that would contest the upcoming elections against the pro-Aurean NLP/PNU government. The FCA would be made up of the already existing left-wing National Agrarian Party, the renewed and reformed centrist National Democratic Party, and the new right-wing to far-right League of Commonwealth Patriots. With that, independence in the eyes of the public became the issue that opposed the current governments policy, and seemed to be a more moderate issue. For the time being, it seemed that the population had split into pro-Aurean and pro-independence camps. With more members entering the pro-independence camp, many of them would have differing views on independence, with some believing further cooperation with Aurea should be supported following independence, and others believing punishment should be given for the national humiliation brought on by Aurea's government.

Protests
Heated exchanges between the Commonwealth government and an enraged public would continue, and the initially small protests in Zlatoport increased rapidly in size, and spreading across the Commonwealth. While more extreme elements in protests weren't condoned by the FCA, they still allowed some more hardliner pro-independence politicians into the camp in the name of unity among supporters of independence.

Around the time protests began to heat up, the concerned government met with the Queen of Aurea, and discussed the possibility of attempting to handle the democratic entry of a more radical pro-independence government, referring back to hardliner sentiment in protests. The Queen promised to support them with troops to fight protesters and anybody attempting to get in the way of the PNU and NLP's political aspirations and their idea of reform for the country. Within this, Sejm representative S. Ogresean, who was included in these discussions, had doubts about being backed by a foreign power to violently attack his fellow citizens and coup a democratically elected government. With the constitution in mind, he reported his findings to a concerned FCA leadership council.

Heat-up
The FCA hearing of the conspiracy by pro-Aurean politicians to attack the government, decided to keep the knowledge of its existence to the higher-ups, to prevent any conflict from arising before and during the shortly arriving election of 1058. Around this time, the leader of the PNU decided to halt cooperating with the NLP, fracturing their government in an attempt for Matos Slavski-Epitichan to distance himself from the more pro-Aurean rhetoric. Around this time, the FCA adopted many candidates. During the election, the highest recorded turnout and vote share occurred, as many Commonwealth citizens went to the polls to cast their vote for either one of the camps. However, the process was muddled with foreign voters primarily from Aurea voting in support of pro-Aurean parties. This tipped the balance and harmed the election process, resulting in a close victory of the FCA in the election. Not only that, but Zerkalos, who were members of the FCA, had betrayed the organization and voted for the NLP, since they were related to the leader of the NLP.

Culmination
With the election looking bad for the NLP, and with Alexei Vargas fearing his position would be compromised once the FCA used their platform as the government to expose his crimes, he resigned from his position as the leader of the NLP, and gave it to a member of the Zerkalo family, who at the time was a member of the FCA. The result gave the pro-independence parties 4 seats (specifically 2 for the LCP, 2 for the NDU, and an expected NAP Pjervod), and the PNU got 1 seat. However, during the vote to place the pjervod into power, the two pro-independence Zerkalo representatives opted to choose Alexei as their candidate, dividing the government and resulting in the PNU voting for Alexei as well.

This culminated in the FCA winning the election, but a pro-Aurean candidate becoming the Pjervod. Around this time, the Csar had gone into personal confinement for a prolonged period of time, resulting in chaos in the streets by the public. Outraged and aware of their hidden treason, the FCA leading politicians Mikolaj Olsevski and Halprin Deitsch revealed the information to the public about the crimes of Nevermore, Matos, and Alexei, and subsequently arrested them for trial to occur.

Olsevski and Deitsch then declared themselves the interim leadership of the country to handle the process of independence, the trials, and snap elections.

During the mass governmental confusion, public outrage, and the military being generally unaware of the situation going on in the Sejm and the halls of the government, a coup was instigated by members of the military and the leader of the faraway colony - New Nebskoslavia to establish a provisional junta. While the coup took the government building in the midst of protesting chaos,

Halprin Deitsch, who was the acting-vice pjervod, calmed the military leaders down and made them aware of the situation. This resulted in the military begrudgingly exiting the Sejm halls, and returning the government to its original leadership.

With the military coup stopped, and the three arrested, their cases were reviewed by the previous government ministers and the new government ministers, who were working together in the chaos of the interim government to get legislation worked on and keep the country functional.

Firstly, through witness accounts and additional information, Nevermore was released from jail and allowed to return to his mayoral duties as very little wrongdoing on his end was found, he was merely a bystander.

Secondly, Alexei Vargas' body was found dead next to his townhome in the capital city of Zlatoport, resulting in his case being cancelled, however the mysterious cause of his death is considered to be a likely suicide due to Alexei being the center of the operation. Lastly, Matos was put on trial by jury, and both sides provided evidence for and against him, but in the end the jury found Matos innocent on the grounds that he misunderstood what the entire conspiracy was about to begin with.

Following the trials, the election loss, and the death of the NLP's leader, both the NLP has essentially become a defunct political organization. The two closest successors to the NLP are the Commonwealth Renewal Party, a right-wing party ran by Lukas Dvorak - Alexei's brother-in-law who inherited his wealth, and the Alliance of Social Democrats who is the closest in terms of ideals. The grassroots and newer political parties began to assert themselves as the new and fresh political force in the protected and strengthened Commonwealth democracy.

Pro-independence protests have ceased as the more hardline elements have toned down their rhetoric following the trials, and Mikolaj and Halprin are set to meet with the Aurean government during the Zalea Accords to discuss independence. As of writing, the interim government is planning on holding snap legislative and local elections to renew a new government and completly fix the country so they may move towards the future.