This press message was released by the Government of the Axis Mundi Likatonian Res Publica.
First Advocate Alec Reynolds, Leader of the Conservative Liberal Party has announced he is to step down as leader of the Conservative Liberal Party when he is removed from office at the end of the month.
Alec Reynolds thanked all of his supporters in government over the past years. He particularly thanked the voters of Gokitan for effectively elected him as First Advocate.
In his last speech, a live televised address which went out on National and International media, Alec Reynolds spoke of the behind the scenes peace negotiations with Olav Craig, the Lodamun Foreign Minister, of the Lodamun Libertarian Party. "Thank you for conducting talks on the basis of mutual respect. Together we averted all out nuclear war which would have seen to total destruction of our respective nations."
Saying Good bye "for now" to Likatonian people, Alec Reynolds will continue to serve as a Gokitan elected Advocate in the Convocation. He will no longer be the Conservative Liberal candidate for First Advocate.
On leaving Government, First Advocate Alec Reynolds quoted from Othello.
"I have done the State some service, and they know it, no more of that." -First Advocate Alec Reynolds.
Signed,
the Government of the Axis Mundi Likatonian Res Publica