Northeastern Chanortia provincehood movement



The Northeastern Chanortia provincehood movement is a political movement in northeastern Chanortia, Taatiklatar, arguing for the separation of the area from the rest of Chanortia province. Most supporters of the movement advocate for creating a new province out of the area, while a few advocate for uniting the area with neighboring Conuctia.

Many supporters of the movement feel that they have been ignored by the wider Chanortian government, and many also argue that the area's cultural and economic ties to the Connuctiapolis metropolitan area makes its status as part of Chanortia nonsensical. Since C.Y. 162, the area being part of the East Taatiklarian time zone while Conuctia is a part of the Oceanic Taatiklarian time zone has caused an uptick in the movement's popularity.

Proposed names for the province include Sandur (named after its largest city, Sandur,) Johnson (after Susie Johnson,) Schmidt (after Mame Schmidt,) South Conuctia and East Chanortia.

Several Partido Independiente politicians in the Taatiklarian legislature have voiced support for the movement in recent years, including Olmedo Ambre, the party's C.Y. 250 presidential nominee. However, all other national figures vocally oppose the movement. Many politicians representing the area both in the Chanortian legislature and the national legislature support the movement as well, most notably Theora Morris, a well known People's Party representative from Sandur, who formally introduced a measure to plan a referendum on the area's status in C.Y. 249.

Polling of the area indicates that roughly 60-70% of the population of this area support becoming their own province, and plans for a referendum have been brought up multiple times in the Chanortian and Taatiklarian legislatures; however, they have never advanced beyond planning stages.