2021 in Georgeland

The following is a chronology of major events in Georgeland in 2021.

Incumbents

• President of Georgeland - Campbell Rhodes
• Prime Minister of Georgeland - Tom Elderton
  • Leader of the Opposition - Janet Gauss
• Chief Justice of Georgeland - Nisreen Sharif

State and District Leaders

• Chief Minister of Bradmarch - Michael Bridger
  • Leader of the Opposition - Simon Hopkins
• Chief Minister of Capitalia - Ravinda Ramayarin (to 25 April), Nick Fielding (from 25 April)
  • Leader of the Opposition - Nick Fielding (to 25 April), Amanda Caldwell (from 25 April)
• Chief Minister of Delmago Island - Maryanne Hislop
  • Leader of the Opposition - Vacant
• Chief Minister of East Mainland - Emily Quincy
  • Leader of the Opposition - Norman Schumann
• Chief Minister of Long Island - Ian Barwell
  • Leader of the Opposition - Clinton Fossey
• Chief Minister of Scoita - Lisa Cromwell
  • Leader of the Opposition - Alexandra Dodge
• Chief Minister of West Mainland - Eve Morris
  • Leader of the Opposition - Liam Margoyles
• Head of Government of the Federal District - Jennifer Dugdale
  • Leader of the Opposition - Mike Jones

State Governors

• Governor of Bradmarch - Stephen Potter
• Governor of Capitalia - Elaine Cooper
• Governor of Delmago Island - Michael G. Walker
• Governor of East Mainland - David Arat (acting, to January 7), Justin Ryan (acting, from January 7), Linda Nguyen (from 16 February)
• Governor of Long Island - Joanne Welsh
• Governor of Scoita - Antonia Williams
• Governor of West Mainland - Claudia Anderson

Events

January

• 7 - Rally for Freedom leader Brad Zimmerman is stripped of committee assignments by the Speaker of the House of Commons after he endorses the activities of far-right insurgents in Washington DC, who stormed Congress in an effort to overturn Joe Biden's election as president.
• 18 - The Legislature of Delmago Island increases its size to fourteen, with the additional member to be selected by voters of the island at-large. The change is designed to allow Maryanne Hislop, elected Chief Minister at the November election, to enter the legislature as she failed to win a seat.
• 19 - The 2020-21 season of Georgeland's football competition begins, with an altered schedule to allow for a final in September, as opposed to May. The 2019-20 season was disrupted by the coronavirus pandemic which caused a three-month suspension of games. The 2021-22 season is also expected to be on an altered schedule, to allow a transition back to the standard October-May calendar.
• 20 - ExoTek, the country's largest electronics manufacturer, goes into receivership as its board and CEO Damon Grough resign. The company had experienced negative growth for two financial years but is unable to compete with newer market entries from Japan, Australia and India.

February

• 6 - Linda Nguyen is elected Governor of East Mainland, defeating former Chief Justice David Arat and far-right activist James Bryant. She is the state's first Asian-Georgelander governor and the country's first state governor of Vietnamese ancestry. She is also the first former refugee elected to be a state governor, having arrived with her family as a child.
• 10 - Gary Bird, a former army general, is appointed Georgeland Ambassador to the United Kingdom. On the same day, by co-incidence, John Bracks is appointed as the United Kingdom Ambassador to Georgeland. Former senator and cabinet minister Douglas Jankowski is appointed as Georgeland's Ambassador to the Organisation for Co-operation and Economic Development.
• 24 - The Capitalia House of Assembly is formally dissolved by Governor Elaine Cooper, pending a general election on 16 April.

March

• 9 - Second-term Liberal Democrat MP Katy Lucas (Eggleton, Cap.) resigns after announcing she is suffering severe depression. Her resignation will trigger a by-election.
• 19 - President Campbell Rhodes recuses himself from office and relinquishes presidential powers for 72 hours to the Governor of Capitalia, Stephen Potter, rather than sign the Immigration Reform (Border Protection) Act, a bill he opposed, which establishes a system of detention for asylum-seekers. Rhodes stands aside rather than veto the legislation, meaning while it will become law, it will not have his name attached to it. This is the first occasion on which a president has refused to sign a law passed by Parliament.
• 20 - Governor Potter, as Acting President, signs the Act, enacting it into legislation.
• 22 - Rhodes resumes presidential authority at noon.
• 29 - The Anglican Archbishop of Bradmarch, and Primate of the Anglican Church in Georgeland, Most. Rev. Simon Bell, dies of a heart attack at the age of 65.
• 30 - The government of Delmago Island announces a referendum on the island's constitutional status will take place on 9 July. Islanders will be asked to choose between becoming a federal territory, joining East Mainland, or remaining a state.

April

• 8 - Following mass protests on the ongoing state energy crisis, the Green Party and New Coalition withdraw from the government of East Mainland. With no alternative government available that can command a majority, Governor Linda Nguyen dissolves the legislature pending a new election on May 21, the third state election in four years.
• 13 - Edwina Haggard is elected Leader of Reform by party members, with 74% of the vote, over Michael Bridger and Lisa Foster. As she is already Deputy Prime Minister, there will be no change within the ministry, with Ryan Stone remaining in cabinet until the next election. Foster becomes Reform's deputy leader and Senate leader, remaining Attorney-General, and Andrew Taylor becomes Leader of the Government in the Senate as the leader of the Georgeland Alliance in the Upper House.
• 13 - Georgeland's International Test Cricket team loses to Bangladesh for the first time since 1996.
• 14 - Peter Bellman, the Anglican Archbishop of Santa Christina, is elected Anglican Primate of Georgeland, succeeding the late Simon Bell.

• 16 - The Capitalia state election returns an inconclusive result, with no party winning more than 20% of the seats in the House of Assembly. Negotiations to form a government begin, but if no agreement can be reached before the writs are returned a new election may be held. At the simultaneous gubernatorial election, incumbent Governor Elaine Cooper is defeated for a second term by former Governor Stephen Chester.
• 18 - Natalie Singh is elected as Leader of Vox in East Mainland, a position held on an interim basis by Emily Quincy. Singh will lead the party's election campaign and will seek election to the East Mainland legislature, while Quincy will contest as a candidate and minister.
• 25 - After talks for a broader coalition fail, Nick Fielding is sworn in as Chief Minister of Capitalia, with the Conservatives and Rally for Freedom in a two-party minority government. Fielding, a Conservative, is the head of the junior party. The government will be tested when the House of Assembly meets on May 17 and may face a no-confidence motion.
• 27 - The new Capitalia Minister for Pandemic Response, Adrian Bowman, issues a ministerial order to ban businesses from requiring customers to wear masks. The action may be challenged in court.
• 28 - The Executive of the Conservative Party's Bradmarch branch votes 11-8 to disassociate itself from the Conservative Party of Georgeland and instead become a state-only party, the New Bradmarch Party. The move comes as dissatisfaction with the federal leadership grows and the party faces bankruptcy, as its Scoita counterpart had. The party's federal leader, Tommy Pippins, and deputy leader Russell Chambers are both from Bradmarch. The Conservative Caucus holds an emergency meeting votes 17-9 to allow both Pippins and Chambers to continue to take the Tory whip, allowing them to continue as party members, extending the same resolution to include the party's two Bradmarch senators. However, the decision means Pippins and Chambers may not be able to stand at the next election as Conservative candidates, and a new organisation may need to be registered there to allow them to continue.

May

• 4 -Bradmarch Senator Linda Dunne, a Liberal Democrat who has been in the senate since 1995 and held several cabinet posts, announces her immediate resignation for family reasons.
• 7 - Sarah-Anne Leech of the Georgeland Alliance wins the Eggleton by-election for the House of Commons.