Post by Hooligan on Mar 21, 2007 21:25:28 GMT -6
[The Senator for Cézembre rises one final time in this capacity, and addresses the empty chamber.]
My Lord President, my fellow Senators, distinguished guests:
When I accepted this seat in the Senate, I informed the nation that once one of my fellow partymen who is a citizen of the island province became qualified to vote in this house, I would resign the seat so that it could be filled by a Cézembrean rump.
My friends, it is now my intention to honour this pledge, and I hereby tender to this body my resignation from it, effective on the upcoming Election Day, 14 April.
In my capacity as the leader of the political party with which this particular resigning Senator is most closely associated, it falls to me to name my own successor in this chair.
Therefore, I ask this esteemed chamber, on the date aforementioned, to welcome to its ranks, and to the place I am vacating, S:reu Nikü Spyropoulos, who stands ready to fulfill the duties of Senator for his home province.
I ask S:reu Spyropoulos to pardon the condition of the chair that I am leaving to him. As my fellow Senators can attest, I haven't always had the best of fortune keeping my drinks within their vessels, and the resulting stains on the seat are to be lamented, but are apparently too stubborn to allow themselves to be removed.
I thank the citizens of Cézembre for welcoming me as their representative here in the Senate, and I share with them the confidence in their Senator-designate, and offer to him my congratulations and best wishes.
To my colleagues here in this chamber, I bow deeply before you all as I take my leave, having been truly honoured by the great privilege of serving our nation with you.
To the Senate barmen and runners, who I have kept so busy these many Clarks, I can only hint at my appreciation for the great many services you did me, and I would ask that my bar tab be used one final time, to buy one more round of drinks for me and, on their return, the six friends who I now leave in this chamber. Denique capiam pocula.
[The Senator lifts the drink that was brought to him, saluting his now absent colleagues, drains it wistfully, and departs.]
My Lord President, my fellow Senators, distinguished guests:
When I accepted this seat in the Senate, I informed the nation that once one of my fellow partymen who is a citizen of the island province became qualified to vote in this house, I would resign the seat so that it could be filled by a Cézembrean rump.
My friends, it is now my intention to honour this pledge, and I hereby tender to this body my resignation from it, effective on the upcoming Election Day, 14 April.
In my capacity as the leader of the political party with which this particular resigning Senator is most closely associated, it falls to me to name my own successor in this chair.
Therefore, I ask this esteemed chamber, on the date aforementioned, to welcome to its ranks, and to the place I am vacating, S:reu Nikü Spyropoulos, who stands ready to fulfill the duties of Senator for his home province.
I ask S:reu Spyropoulos to pardon the condition of the chair that I am leaving to him. As my fellow Senators can attest, I haven't always had the best of fortune keeping my drinks within their vessels, and the resulting stains on the seat are to be lamented, but are apparently too stubborn to allow themselves to be removed.
I thank the citizens of Cézembre for welcoming me as their representative here in the Senate, and I share with them the confidence in their Senator-designate, and offer to him my congratulations and best wishes.
To my colleagues here in this chamber, I bow deeply before you all as I take my leave, having been truly honoured by the great privilege of serving our nation with you.
To the Senate barmen and runners, who I have kept so busy these many Clarks, I can only hint at my appreciation for the great many services you did me, and I would ask that my bar tab be used one final time, to buy one more round of drinks for me and, on their return, the six friends who I now leave in this chamber. Denique capiam pocula.
[The Senator lifts the drink that was brought to him, saluting his now absent colleagues, drains it wistfully, and departs.]
