51st Congress in session as summer recess ends

The Sergeant-at-Arms sounds the vuvuzela to summon Patria's Congress into session.

Patria's Congress returns from the summer recess that began on Inauguration Day shortly after the Inaugural Address/Speech from the Throne, as the Sergeant-at-Arms blew the vuvuzela and the Speaker Pro Tem whacked the gavel and proclaimed "under the power vested in me by the Constitution of Patria, I declare open the First Session of the Fifty-First Congress" (denoted 1·LI 2018-19).

With a 96 member Social Democrat caucus, along with the SD's close allies: the Amrita, Chakra and Green Parties, the 51st Congress is the most left-leaning, "progressive" one ever elected in Patria's 200 years. It is always a crapshoot as to which pieces of legislation will be pushed to the front of the order paper, but residents of Castoropolis and Patria's other major cities can be assured that the representation of their city councils will not be cut in half by executive fiat only a few weeks before  municipal election day. It is also a safe bet that the 24 municipal governments that make up Greater Castoropolis will not be forcibly amalgamated into a single Megacity. Voters in Patria (even National Unionists) would have little tolerance for a Doug Ford or Mike Harris wannabe.