This press message was released by the Government of the Free Republic of Saridan.
It is with a heavy heart that we must report the following. At a speech earlier today, Chancellor Donald Rogan of the Freedom Party was speaking to a crowd on the benefits of school privatization. Midway through the rally, Mr. Rogan was assasinated by a lone gunman. The gunman has been identified as David Whitby of the Surtilati province of Saridan. Whitby is a known affiliate and sympathizer of an extreme left organization.
The Freedom Party and acting chancellor Keith Baering has denounced the violence and accusations of this being representative of the "Enlightend Socialist Party" and other groups.
Instead insisting that this is a sign, more than ever that the political division needs to stop and that "our parties must work together, creating mutually beneficial agreements to serve all of Saridan. It was Mr. Rogans dream, and a legacy he would wish to see live on"
Chancellor Donald Rogan 2061-2106Signed,
the Government of the Free Republic of Saridan