User blog:Bond em7/British Minister of Magic

Alright everyone, so if you read my blog about the B-crat meeting, you already had a hint about this, but here's the deal. OOC (Out of Character) the person who played the current British Minister of Magic is on permenant wikibreak, and is actually on staff for wikia now. So, a couple people have roleplayed the character when it was necessary, but what we really need is a new minister. However, as this would also be an important story point, we will be doing this both IC (In Character) and OOC. IC, the Minister has gotten worn down and tired fro mthe post, and trying to fight for advancement in the wizarding world, and needs a break. She still intends to try to go forward with advancing society, just not as Minister of Magic. Since she's stepping down, there will be an election. Here's how this will work: First off will be the OOC portion. Anyone who wants to may put forward up to 2 characters of theirs to be minister. These can be exsisting characters, or characters created just for this. However, there are a couple restrictions or rules. They are the following:
 * The User/Roleplayer must have been on the wiki at least 2 weeks, and shown good roleplaying skills. This is important as we want someone who will be here, and has enough experience or skills to roleplay the leader of the Country.
 * The roleplayer must have time for this character. There will be meetings for them to attend, Wizengamont trials and such to post on, etc. It will be a bit more intensive time-wise than a normal student at Hogwarts.
 * The Minister must be Pro-Advancement (Combining Magic with Muggle Technology). This is very important to the war storyline! They can be subtle about it, saying they support it, or as extreme as saying they will do it reguardless as it will be great for Britan.
 * They must be a strong enough character to have an opinion about things, such as Ministry Policies, International Relations, Muggle-borns etc. Their opinions can go either way, but they must have them!

I think that's it for now, though more may be added if someone sees something I missed. For when I post this, everyone will have approximately 9 days to create/modify their characters and submit their names to me on my Userpage under the proper heading. So, next Friday, August 3rd will be the cutoff for submitting your characters. After that the Bcrats will take through Monday the 6th of August to go through them and look at their bios and background etc, and remove any that don't meet the above criteria in our eyes. On Tuesday the 7th of August, a IC election will begin, and stay up for the week and weekend (So it will end Sunday the 12th), and the winner will be declared the Minister of Magic, and assume the role on Monday the 13th. If you have any questions or ideas to help this process, please post them in the comments, otherwise, get working on your characters!