President of the Scallatti Federation

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President of the Scallatti Federation
Incumbent	Raleigh Baker-Mitchell, the 62nd President of the Scallatti Federation
Style	Mr. or Madam President
Status	Head of State Head of Government Commander-in-Chief of the Scallatti Fleet
Abbreviation	POTS
Member of	Cabinet Security Council
Offiical Residence	Ajacos House, Metria (since 559)
Seat	Hortus
Appointer	Electoral College
Term length	Four years, renewable
Formation	0DE (disputed)
First Holder	Jeremiah Hortus

The President of the Scallatti Federation, Commander-in-Chief of her Honourable Fleet and Armies and Protectorate of the Destination was the head of state and head of government of the Scallatti Federation, and up until 3556, commander-in-chief of the Scallatti Fleet. While the fleet had presidents since it's establishment in approximately 1200BDE, the official list of Scallatti presidents was, later, established to have begun in 0DE, with President Hortus, despite the fact his first term begun two-years before this point.

History

Formation

The position of a President in the Scallatti Fleet existed long before the establishment of the Scallatti Federation and before the inauguration of Jeremiah Hortus, which took place two years before the Invitation of Destination. However, 32DE, as part of the Destination's party's election promises, President Bernes signed the Act of Destination, resetting the calendar back to the point of the Invitation of Destination, and thus retroactively declaring President Hortus as the first President of the Scallatti. It is unknown what number of president he was when inauguration took place, but historians believe him to have been over the 150th president of the fleet.

At the time of the Invitation, there were two main parties in the developing federation, the People's Party and the Federation Party. After the 2DE election, the Federation Party renamed themselves the Destination Party, seeking to enact the promises of the Invitation and make a fresh start, abandoning the past which had for so long tied them down to ruin and turmoil. The process of this change began in 6DE when the Destination Party won the election and continued throughout President Rovenia's three terms. However, after the re-election of President Hortus in 18DE and following his retirement after one term, the election of his former Vice President, President Daishu, the People's Party began to retract some of the legislation to completely dismantle the history of their fleet. However, in 30DE, President Bernes won the election for the Destination Party, on the key pledge, with outstanding public support, to finish forming a new federation, without the baggage of their history and do so within her first four-year term. During the first two years, President Bernes reinstated all previously retracted legislation relating to the new federation and wrote and approved the written Constitution of the Scallatti, alongside her Vice President, Gavin Igarograd, before on the final day of 32DE, signing the Act of Destination.

The Igarograd Administration

Inaugurated as the 5th president in 38DE, President Igarograd was considered to be one of the greatest presidents in Scallatti history, as over his 12 years in office he managed to unify a bitterly divided nation, who at the beginning of his administration were almost on the verge of civil war, following the passing of the Act of Destination.

President Igarograd, a member of the Destination party, restored the teaching of history in schools covering the previous 100 years before the Invitation of Destination, seen by both sides as a reasonable compromise - this was eventually rescinded in 88DE. Igarograd, however, banned the previous symbols of the fleet, from before the Destination, from being displayed without an educational permit.

After his election to a second term in 42DE, President Igarograd passed the 1st amendment to the Scallatti Constitution, which officially classed all species contained within the Federation as one single species, choosing the name Scallatti, named after the Federation itself. This new homogenized distinction, allowed society within the Federation to move along peacefully, with everyone seeing each other as one. Furthermore Igarograd's amendment made it illegal for a person to request a medical test to find out what species they are, or what percentage of species they contained within them.

During his first term in office, Igarograd submitted proposals to the Senate to open an upper chamber of government, to preside over the Senate. This would eventually become the Chamber of Lords, which was ratified by the Senate in 56DE. A month before the 50DE election, which Igarograd was due to stand in, he was assassinated, while onboard the Hal III, being flushed out of an airlock. The person responsible was never found, although it was commonly believed that the President got into some kind of dispute with senior members within the Federation shortly before the assassination took place. President Bernes Jr, his Vice President, became Acting President, until the election, which the Destination Party, narrowly lost to the People's Party.

Political Upheaval

Following the assassination of President Igarograd, the Scallatti Federation went through a great period of political upheaval. The 6th President, Neil Cinnley-Bogual, of the People's Party was extremely unpopular during his time in office, making radical changes and imposing great security restrictions. This briefly caused a small revolt, from several of the mining ships, however the coup failed, and 66 miners were executed on the order of the President. During the final days before the 54DE election, the President signed the 6th amendment to the constitution prohibiting people who worked onboard the mining ships, apart from the Captain and their crew, from voting in any future elections. Despite this restriction in place, President Cinnley-Bogual lost the election to President Toula Bernes Jr, who officially ascended to the position in 54DE, despite having fulfilled the position in an acting capacity, four years earlier.

President Bernes Jr, reversed many of the legislation which President Cinnley-Bogual signed, but was unable herself to revoke the 6th amendment, despite promising it during the 54DE election. The President's actions and fierce rhetoric against the previous administrator, pushed the support for the People's Party to a record low, causing several key members depart and form a new party, the Democratic Party. However, the Democrats also had the support of several key figures from the Destination Party, including President Igarograd's former vice president, Perring Calcta. After just three years, since their formation, the Democrats managed to win the 62DE election, and Perring Calcta was inaugurated as the 8th President of the Scallatti Federation.

For the next two decades, the presidency continued going back and forth between the Democratic Party and the Destination Party, with Toula Bernes Jr. continually nominated for the Destination Party, winning four of nine elections. However, the People's Party managed to male a surprise comeback at the 78DE election, with popularist nomination, Aloxesander Dougie-Frenstein, who surprisingly won the 78DE election, and was the People's Party final President. After just one term, power found itself back with the Destination Party, however, President Fronsetti, the 10th President, would also become the Destination Party's final President. After just two terms, the Democratic Party managed to win back control of the Presidency for the foreseeable future...

The Accuratri Administration

Daniel-Connur Accuratri was inaugurated as the 11th President of the Scallatti Federation and was one of the most divisive presidents ever, only holding about 50% of the public support throughout all his terms, with half of the fleet loving him, and yet the other half absolutely hated him.

President Accuratri's first term between 88 and 92DE was easily his most popular, delivering on nearly all of his manifesto promises and once again uniting the fleet, and keeping their spirits up. It was during his first term that the Scallatti first launched a probe to Taoter III, to do a preliminary survey of the planet, which was a huge national event and made much of the population full of hope. In his first term he also abolished, on a manifesto pledge, the teaching of history prior to the Invitation of Destination, in order to truly put the Scallatti's roots at rest and encourage a new, more optimistic future to be forged, which after the probe launch was top of the public's consciousness. By the end of his first term, Accuratri had an approval rating of 80%, but it wouldn't be long until this begun to dwindle.

The President's second term became plagued by one singular issue, the fact that scientific estimates predicted that within 5 years, the fleet would run out of water, as all of the fleet's supply had been nearly used up. Accuratri was slow to act, in fact for the first 3 years of his term, he refused to act at all, claiming that the information was wrong and a ploy to destabilise the government. This angered much of the general public, as their lives were on the line and yet the president refused to even take it seriously. Finally in 95DE, Vice President Wanes-Bevre persuaded the President to attend a briefing on the issue with the Chief Scientific Officer, and after that meeting the President began dealing with the issue, also aware that he was up for re-election in a year's time. The Vice President chose to stand down at that election due to her conflicts with the President around the issue. Accuratri pulled together, in that year, most of his support, as he began tackling the crisis, but only managed to win the election by the narrowest of margins and failing to win the popular vote.

After having ran on a manifesto promise of reimbursing the Scallatti's water supply, Accuratri, much to many people's surprise, spent a considerable amount of time during his third term trying to deal with the issue. However, his hand was forced, very early on, as the rationing was failing, as the water was just running out, and supplies became dangerously low. Accuratri controversially made the decision to prioritize water to the most important ships, starving 10 ships of any water at all, and causing their whole populations to die within a month. All 10 of the ships were mining ships, and angered much of the public. Working with the scientists throughout the crisis, Accuratri managed to deliver in the year 100, just in time for the election, a new system which allowed the Scallatti to produce their own water, from recycled waste and gases from the fleet, for the foreseeable future. The President used this victory, to not only win the next election, and his fourth term, but to hide the fact that the 10, now empty mining ships, were being used as reservoirs to produce and store the fleet's water, leading some of the opposition to speculate that Accuratri let them die on purpose.

Accuratri's fourth term began very positively with many substantial reforms, but just a year in, it became overwhelmed by an impeachment trial, accusing Accuratri of murdering the populations of the 10 mining ships. This trial lasted two full years, and became extremely heated, with many of the President's allies defecting and leaving what they considered to be a sinking ship. Accuratri refused to acknowledge the trial and just kept on with the business of government. This kept Accuratri popular with much of the public as he used this time to keep the country stable and he portrayed those trying to impeach him as anarchists. Eventually, the impeachment trial failed as Accuratri was found 'not guilty'. He went onto win his fifth term in office soon after, but it didn't last long...

The Uprising of 104

To be added.

List of Presidents of the Scallatti Federation

President				Party	Election	Vice President
1	2BDE-6DE		Jeremiah Hortus	People's Party	2BDE	Brumnley Daishu	1
					2DE
2	6DE-18DE		Winfred-Alexander Rovenia	Destination Party	6DE	Friedrich Bertov	2
					10DE
					14DE	Toula Bernes	3
1	18DE-22DE		Jeremiah Hortus	People's Party	18DE	Brumnley Daishu	1
3	22DE-30DE		Brumnley Daishu		22DE	Neil Cinnley-Bogual	4
					26DE
4	30DE-38DE		Toula Bernes	Destination Party	30DE	Gavin Igarograd	5
					34DE
5	38DE-50DE		Gavin Igarograd		38DE	Perring Calcta	6
					42DE
					46DE	Toula Bernes Jr.	7
6	50DE-54DE		Neil Cinnley-Bogual	People's Party	50DE	Norris Wanes-Bevre	8
7	54DE-62DE		Toula Bernes Jr.	Destination Party	54DE	Rachelle Verner	9
					58DE
8	62DE-70DE		Perring Calcta	Democratic Party	62DE	Norris Wanes-Bevre	8
					66DE
7	70DE-78DE		Toula Bernes Jr.	Destination Party	70DE	Rachelle Verner	9
					74DE	Mickel Fronsetti	10
9	78DE-82DE		Aloxesander Dougie-Frenstein	People's Party	78DE	Begali Hortus	11
10	82DE-88DE		Mickel Fronsetti	Destination Party	82DE	Josh Cinnley-Bougal	12
					84DE
11	88DE-104		Daniel-Connur Accuratri	Democratic Party	88DE	Norris Wanes-Bevre	8
					92DE
					96DE	Garrin Bolson-Jones	13
					100
					104	Mickel Verner	14
12	104-112		Akanksha Burman	Worker's Party	-	Girisha Bajwa	15
					108
13	112-120		Girisha Bajwa		112	Avinash Dixit	16
					116
14	120-128		Samanta Coldoon	Democratic and People's Party	120	Deila Fenrik-Smith	17
					124
15	128-134		Avinash Dixit	Worker's Party	128	Radjen Muthu-West	18
16	134-142		Deila Fenrik-Smith	Democratic and People's Party	134	Jaya Hortus-Dalal	19
					138
17	142-154		Jaya Hortus-Dalal		142	Tumukas Bryne	20
					146
					150
18	154-158		Toula Chowdhury-Mallick	Worker's Party	154	Amit Haldar	21
19	158-162		Arthur David-Rerener	Unionist Party	158
20	162-166		Tumukas Bryne	Democratic and People's Party	162	Viola Danielich-Dhar	22
21	166-174		Amit Haldar	Unionist Party	166	Avinash Dixit Jr.	23
				Unionist and Worker's Party	170	Satish David-Blakus	24
22	174-178		Viola Danielich-Dhar	Democratic and People's Party	174	Nikel Platt	25
23	178-186		Jahn Revel-Holdar	Unionist and Worker's Party	178	Satish David-Blakus	24
					182
24	186-198		Nikel Platt	Democratic and People's Party	186	Mahesh Wenher-Balditch	26
					190	Sara Karamel-Dansen	27
					194
25	198-210		Satish David-Blakus	Unionist and Worker's Party	198	Dani Sharmesh-Kemp	28
				Labour Party	202
					206
26	210-214		Mahesh Wenher-Balditch	Democratic and People's Party	210	Bernie Manit-Bajwa	29
27	214-222		Dani Sharmesh-Kemp	Labour Party	214	Perring-Michael Hanson	30
					218
28	222-230		Perring-Michael Hanson		222	James Jahn-Khan	31
					226
29	230-238		Vijay Karna-Anetti	Democratic and People's Party	230	Yakob Zardenon	32
					234
30	238-242		James Jahn-Khan	Labour Party	238	Channer Dien Frutzoe	33
31	242-262		Yakob Zardenon	Democratic and People's Party	242	David Allscroft Hollow	34
					246
				Welfare Party	250	Martin Wanderberg	35
				Welfare and Labour Party	254
					258
32	262-266		David Allscroft Hollow	Democratic and People's Party	262	Sara Karna-Anetti	36
33	266-270		Martin Wanderberg	Welfare and Labour Party	266	Charli Kress McDay	37
34	270		Sara Karna-Anetti	Democratic and People's Party	270	Jae Burn-Tola	38
35	270-278		Jae Burn-Tola		-	Jon Burman Bedi	39
					274
36	278-290		Jon Burman Bedi		278	Ron Frenner Best	40
					282
					286
37	290-292		Tumukas Bryne IV		290	Sandra Khan Errickson	41
38	292-294		Sandra Khan Errickson		-	Ron Frenner Best	40
39	294-310		Charli Kress McDay	People's Welfare Party	294	Gordo Ansel Burton	42
					298
					302	Jahn Nime Turnell	43
					306
38	310-318		Sandra Khan Errickson	The New Democratic Party	310	Jonathan Edgeway Bronson	44
					314
40	318-322		Ron Frenner Best	Democratic and People's Party	318	Mickel Das Chawla	45
38	322-326		Sandra Khan Errickson	The New Democratic Party	322	Jonathan Edgeway Bronson	46
41	326-338		Jonathan Edgeway Bronson		326	Sunder Bish Bronov	47
				Democratic and People's Party	330	Mickel Das Chawla	45
					334
42	338-350		Vasanta Iver Gonnet	People's Welfare Party	338	Charles Ricardo Danielleson	48
					342
					346
43	350-362		Mickel Das Chawla	Democratic and People's Party	350	Sunal Dieter Jones	49
					354
					358
44	362-374		Casia Charli Ricardon	Liberal Party	362	Verna Eren Day	50
					366
					370
45	374-378		Sunal Dieter Jones	Democratic and People's Party	374	Anna Belkov Lalana	51
46	378-386		Carli Mikel Harrus	People's Welfare Party	378	Dani Wemesh Jaeger	52
				Liberal Party	382	Edwardo Illson Tarna	53
47	386-390		Dani Wemesh Jaeger	People's Welfare Party	386	Gary Dubbel Downes	54
48	390-394		Anna Belkov Lalana	Democratic and People's Party	390	Dana Tumukas Telen	55
49	394-402		Gary Dubbel Downes	Social Party	394	Erick Nigel Unsenit	56
					398
50	402-418		Edwardo Illson Tarna	Liberal Party	402	Haresh Maneki Bross	57
					406
					410	Rolf Liza Anite	58
					414
51	418-426		Brent Nigel Unsenit	Social Party	418	Piotr Garmesh Thane	59
					422
52	426-442		Peter Mickel Rensen	Democratic and People's Party	426	Dave Jemes Croft	60
					430
					434
					438
53	442-450		Dave Jemes Croft		442	Bellel Turnet Anite	61
					446
54	450-462		Rolf Liza Anite	Liberal Party	450	David Sparrow Smyth	62
					454
					458
55	462-494		Jan Reena Metria	Democratic and People's Party	462	Duncan Jemeh Browne	63
					466
					470	Petir Erickes Lin	64
					474
					478	Dana Wellington Harris	65
					482
					486
					490	Bill Yurnesh Berris	66
56	494-502		Rolf Liza Anite Jr.	Liberal Party	494	Chimley Earl Frenme	67
					498
57	502-518		Dana Wellington Harris	Democratic and People's Party	502	Horatio Neil Galante	68
					506
					510
					514	Berene Charli Turneteson	69
58	518-534		Berene Charli Turneteson		518	Ella Jana Lemmens	70
					522
					526	Rolua Pauli Framas	71
					530
59	534-542		Tara Peer Daniels	Liberal Party	534	Reema Deena Harsun	72
					538
60	542-544		Michael Eres Habati	Democratic and People's Party	542	Frayons Prix Ajacos	73
61	544-560		Frayons Prix Ajacos		544	Yakob Tala Bishop	74
					548
					552	Lenny Jules Janna	75
					556	Jelena Galante Roddy	76
						Julie Yannis Karter	77
62	560-?		Raleigh Baker-Mitchell	Scallatti Futures Alliance	560	Eddie Nickos Kyprianos	78