Third Santonian Legislative Election

Third Santonian Legislative Election. 7 Members of Parliament to be elected elected to the Parliament of the Kingdom of Santos, who elect the Prime Minister of Santos
==Election==
===Small electoral system reform===
Two weeks before the election, a motion was presented and passed in parliament. It changed system by changing the 45 days between election to every 7 weeks on sunday. It also increased the voting time to 48 hours and added the option of rotating the ammount of seats from 7 to 5 depending on activity and candidates. This would happen upon the king's say.
===NUL and the DCU opposition===
On the 23rd of November 2024, the National Unit League was created. It was founded by Darling Morrissey and DCU member NEG. Upon the creation of the party, NEG, who was a member of the DCU and friend of Uri Dracdein, was dismissed from his position as parliamentarian of the DCU. This created some tension, as NEG claimed the seat was his. After a short revision of the electoral law, the DCU dismissal was deemed legal.
The tensions did not end there, though. The leader of the party, Uri Dracdein, grew resentment and resentment against NEG, for not having participated in the 3 months worth of plans that the DCU had created, but had not been executed due to government inactivity. Uri marked this as hypocrisy, for wanting to create a new political party out of personal interests instead of collaborating in completing the effort that Uri had put into the plans of the nation.
This only escalated more when, on the 26th of November, NEG posted a political party and in a business advertising section. Uri called NEG to remove it immediately, but NEG said the king had allowed it. Uri explained how it was against electoral law and that the party could be disqualified. The conversation that followed was with a sarcastic and defiant tone by NEG, and a provoking tone by Uri. 
Eventually, this argument escalated to new heights in personal messages, where Uri accused NEG of hypocrisy and NEG accused Uri of attempting to eliminate political opponents. Uri's narrative changed to wanting to explain the misunderstanding of eliminating political opponents but NEG's denial led to Uri "striking" back, an action that only worsened the dialogue. 
After all that, Uri apologised for his mishandling of the conversation and consequently rising the tensions. NEG left the dialogue table created by the King and shortly after his party leader, Darling Morrissey showed up after a day break. Darling Morrissey then attacked Uri for his "dictatorial" behaviour but then spoke with him more personally. Uri calmly explained the situation supposedly from a neutral perspective by admitting to his side's mistakes. Eventually, Darling Morrisey and Uri simply reached a consensus. The tension between Uri and NEG did not end, but Uri disengaged from the arguments when NEG left the dialogue table and NEG did not get back to it again. In the end, both parties simply distanced but Uri was relieved that his reputation was not damaged from the claims by NEG. 
All this consensus was completely destroyed when the leader of the NUL used some of those untrue or debunked claims in political campaigning and started a new political narrative, not for goals and unity, but diminishing the DCU's rule and destroying its members reputation. The DCU, including half of the active members would suffer greatly and the times of party cooperation ended with the creation of the NUL and their new political strategy. 
Uri denounced the over-complex and toxic behaviour by the NUL and their conversations about specific law and understanding descriptions. He will supposedly press charges once the elections are concluded. 
The 29th of November, Uri Dracdein decided not to run for re-election and Wuda the Successor Pentente became the party nominee as number one in the party list. Uri remained as party leader but significantly retreated back from political action. 
Around the same time Uri Dracdein negotiated an agreement with the SMP to form a coalition against the NUL. The NUL used the SMP campaign calling the NUL a better choice than others they had had but the NUL removed the quote specifically saying they did not support the NUL. Although times were complicated between the DCU and SMP, they still even reached an agreement and ran together. 
The 1st of December, Wuda announced that he would not be the main candidate and allegedly left Santos due to political toxicity and non-cooperative antagonistic narrative by the opposite side. His place as number one in the DCU list and so candidate for Prime Minister for the DCU and SMP was replaced by Lewis Miska. 
===Election Day and Fraud===
The 8th of December had arrived. The polls were open and everything seemed to be moving smoothly. The king, being the manager of the elections and being able to see the results did some background checks in case anything seemed off. It was then when one of the recorded citizens that had voted didn't look right, simply because they were a foreign advisor with citizen status. Curious, King Michael asked about his vote and his choice in the election but the said individual dismissed having participated in the election at all.
The SSB and the King created an emergency protocol. The election would be reset with 24 hours time instead of 48 and this time they added an extra layer of security in the polls. However, this action was confronted by the leader of the opposition Darling Morrisey, who claimed that "the law" did not say that the King could make decisions without following a protocol. The head of the SSB complained about Darling delaying the vote even further and another law related definition argument began, this time between the SSB head and the NUL candidate Darling Morrisey.
===Aftermath & Shady Results===
After the re-call of the election ended the votes were counted. Two weeks before the election, the S.S.B head Sinkez, passed a proposal in parliamnet which prohibited citizens to vote before having been one week in the nation to prevent fraud. Both in the First vote and this second vote, the DCU would have won but new began to rise from the opposition candidate directly contacting new people and others to self-advertise, possibly talking badly of the opponent. So when the count for the second vote concluded, the DCU recieved a majority due to the votes from citizens who joined after November 30th were nullified. 
Sinkez then took a second opinion on the matter, considering that the 1 week rule should be placed on when the vote ended in the second emergency vote. In theory, the election preparation perior of 1 week ended on Sunday 8th, meaning that was the required time to have been in the nation but this new point of view changed the course of the election declaring Darling Morrisey's party as the victorious party even after the seats were already assigned. Before even having time to comment on the results, Uri Dracdein came back with no opportunity of a final message, having been pushed from Prime Minister after a fast parliament vote to assign Darling Morrisey. 
Having felt backstabbed enough by so many people from the nation, and having had dealt with hypocrisy, lies and fighting against a "con-artist" he had had enough, and he too, like Wuda left the nation, looking for some peace, although this was not his plan if his party lost. That would have been to retire partially from politics and work on rebuilding Santos' newspaper but he decided not to do that after the vote results were shifted without any previous talks.
Election Participants
	DCU	Democratic Convergence Union(Coalition DCU-SMP)	Lewis Miska 	Centre-right-Economic Liberalism-Santonian conservatism-Centrism
	SMP	Santonian Mercantilist Party(Coalition DCU-SMP)	SpudlyTheGrand 	Centre-right to Right Wing -Mercantilism
	NUL	National Unity League 	DarlingMorrissey	Centre-Right-Nationalism-Progressivism
-Populism
==Opinion Polling==
Hypothetical + Real Opinion Polling from the Second Santonian Legislative Election results to the Third election results.
===Real Polling ===
Source 	Date 	DCU 	INDP	SMP 	NUL
Santonian Situation Census	24 Nov 2024	42.8%	- 	14.2%	42.8%
Last Election 	20 Oct 2024	60% 	40% 	0% 	-
==Seat Results==
==Prime Minister Investiture==
Candidate 	Date 	Vote 	NUL	DCU-SMP	Total (4+)
Darling Morrissey	12 Dec.	YES 	4 	 	 / 
Darling Morrissey	12 Dec.	NO 	 	1 	 / 
Darling Morrissey	12 Dec.	ABSTENTION	 	2 	 / 
Darling Morrissey	12 Dec.	ABSENT 	 	 	 /