1918 Provisional Appointment

The 1918 Provisional Appointment was not a contested election. Following the collapse of the Vosti Empire in November 1918, the Provisional Council in Vost invested executive authority in the armed forces and named General Meik Rinder provisional head of state.

The appointment came amid famine, mutiny, and the first skirmishes of what would become the Kresimirian Unification War. Bosken officers in Vost declared independence on 12 November 1918, the same day Imperator Valerian IV abdicated. Rinder’s junta promised to defend ethnic Boskens north of the River Brod and resist Kresimirian centralisation, but it had no democratic mandate. Rinder retained a civilian advisor, Stefan Hartschnell, while the Council prepared a federal charter. The arrangement would hold until the disastrous 1921 intervention discredited military rule and opened the way to civilian government under Hartschnell in 1922.

Parties

There was no party contest in 1918. Executive power rested with the Military (Provisional) faction led by Rinder. The junta’s stated platform combined territorial defence, resistance to Sinj’s centralist movement, and the drafting of a republican constitution — though constitution-writing proceeded slowly while the army remained engaged along the northern marches. No opposition slate was permitted; the Provisional Council’s unanimous investiture of Rinder was recorded as a formal appointment rather than a popular vote.