LINDSHOLM - After abstaining from the recent Great Powers Forum session, the Supreme Viceroy argued that the Secretary-General abused his power by convening the Forum to decide the fate of the Denisian embargo instead of hosting a formal Congress.

As a result, a formal appeal has been filed against the way by which the embargo was lifted. Once the papers were received, the Secretary-General announced that a Congressional committee shall be established to pass judgment on the legality of the embargo's termination. Until then, all Denisian funds from the July financial statement have been frozen. Should the action be found legal, the embargo shall be lifted.

However, the implications of the decision may be wider than first suspected. In doing its work, the committee is also indirectly passing judgment on an unofficial Congressional position that favours nations who participate over nations who are negligent. Whereas in the past the Secretary-General has only used the Congressional position to justify suspending nations who do not vote in a Congress, the recent "substitute Congress" automatically excluded nations who were unlikely to vote, based on previous voting trends.

Some claim that the Secretary-General severely overstepped his bounds and violated the innate right of every nation to vote on important issues affecting the Mapp. They also contend that not only is the substitute Congress completely contradictory to the founding principles of Congressional Parliament (CP), but that it is also a dangerous step in the wrong direction towards an elitist international system.

Nevertheless, others counter that negligent powers do not deserve the right to vote as a result of their consistent and flagrant irresponsibility to the Mapp. Furthermore, they argue that no power, aside from Lindsholm, has objected to the substitute Congress. Had an objection been made, based on previous Congressional actions, the nation that had objected would have likely been accommmodated.

From the Riksholm, it is expected that the Supreme Viceroy will release a statement concerning the appeal. In the meantime, as stipulated by the Congress of Wingtucky, the infamous Lindsholm Doctrine has been replaced with a more specific and milder document. International reaction to the new Lindsholmic foreign policy has been quiet thus far, as attention is diverted to the so-called "embargo scandal" rocking CP.