“Madam President, Welcome.” One of the Head Scientists of the research center said as President Mouri-Kudo entered the center through the secret entrance.

“Thank you. Is Dr slash Minister Akagi here today?” Mouri-Kudo asked curiously.

“Yes, Madam President. She is in her office at the moment. She is just reviewing new data for the LF-1A Gen 5 plan.” The scientist explained pointing the way to Minister of Science and Research Ritsuko Akagi’s office in the research center, which is far from the capital of the Commonwealth and away from the official public office of the Ministry of Science and Research.

“I guess then I will disturb her then.” Mouri-Kudo said as she began to walk towards said Doctor’s office.

Office is a understatement of the work area of the Minister of Science and Research as it was more or less a large laboratory and test area of all the Commonwealth’s new weapons, gadgets, and devices that were either tested, discarded, or being developed. As the President of the Commonwealth entered, she heard the sounds of various things within the room being made. The sounds ranged from the works of welding to even malfunction of a gun. The Secret Service agents beside her suggested that she wait until the Minister is done with her work for the sake of her very own safety from the things being tested. However, Mouri-Kudo waved it off. She had been through much throughout her life, especially as president when one considers how her inauguration went.

“Madam President, I am surprised to see you’re here.” Minister of Science and Research Ritsuko Akagi said after examining a new type of Rocket Launcher for the Army.

“Minister Akagi. Good to see you here. I was just checking to hear about the progress on the latest projects.” Mouri-Kudo said as she and Akagi sat by a workbench in the area.

“So far, work on the Defender Class has been going smoothly and we should expect to see the first line of the class being produced in March once we finish running additional tests and after the naval exercises that you plan to have with the Spanish Navy. The Submarine will have a much more longer range than the old Revolution Class and can handle much more deeper depths than said predecessor. It has a AIP that manage to squeezing into the Engine Room Compartment. So the use of fuel will not be a serious concern for the Navy in the use of this submarine, especially with the Fuel Cell system. However, we did not achieve our goal of 720 miles underwater at 5 Knots, but 705 miles at said speed.” Akagi explained.

“Well, it is still an improvement. Maybe once we start have more of the Defenders out then we will can be able to have their range extended.” Mori-Kudo said.

“Of course, Madam President.” Akagi said looking over a sheet of data, “Progress on stealth technology is still a way to go for the armed forces. We had some success in developing a prototype that somewhat works but needs more tweaking to be done before we say that we are on the right path. It should take us another year at most for progress to be completely finished. Problem is that we are developing our own from scratch, if say we had one that was imported and we can based our own technology on, then the process will be much smoother. However, with time, we should be at the point of building our stealth tech for planes especially.”

“I see. I cannot promise that you will be able to get a imported variant but I will see if I can try with some of the European Nations nearby.” Morui-Kudo explained.

Akagi nodded understandingly.

“Will you still be meeting with Dietmember Moriarty on negotiating the funding of a Leagioan Merchant Marine Fleet?” Akagi asked curiously.

“Yes, even though the Economy is doing much better than at the start of my term, unemployment still needs to be resolved. Constructing a merchant marine fleet that sails through Europe might be the way to go for that and it would help to improve trade in-general for Leagio.The country is having a leftward shift and in order to get anything done of my program then I will need to compromise on a few of my positions.” Mouri-Kudo said dreadfully.

After much time of counting ballots, it has become both a celabrating and interesting time in the Commonwealth as we now have the last state submitting their results to the election.
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The Commonwealth of Leagio is happy to announce that Mouri-Kudo has been elected in a landslide in this second round by becoming the 27th President of the Commonwealth and has also become the 1st woman president in this nation's history. At the same time, the Jewel Thief Magic Kaito has received the needed Electoral Votes to become the 31st Governor-General in the history of the Commonwealth. The two winners of different parties will have to work with each other.