The religious fundamentalist New Puritan Way has won a quarter of the seats in the Proxima 7 parliament following the general election which took place last week. Now they are poised to be the kingmakers with both the ruling Proxima People's Party and the rival Public Alliance needing the Way's seats to form a majority and a government.
Why should this worry the DDS? Because as a pre-requisit for support the Way want strict new controls over the DDS in return for continued funding. The Way have been bitter opponents of the DDS for some time, calling them the moral cancer at the heart of Proxima 7. Thus with the Way as part of the P7 government the DDS would find it much harder to operate on the planet which is still the major home of the DDS even after GHQ has moved to Proxima 5.
