97th Adorian Election

## Electoral System

*Further information:* AES explanatory doc*,* PMA explanatory doc

This election would be unique since on April 3rd 2023, Matthew V would announce the AES system would be reformed due to parties getting supermajorities with little effort. Under the new system excess AES seats would be reimbursed to the popular vote seats meaning the system no longer resembled a parallel voting system of public and simulated votes but rather a popular vote election with simulated seats being earned similar to a majority bonus system, a simulated bonus system. The fixed 60% simulated rate would be ended and replaced with a 0-60% rate that climbs higher based on activity. This is the first time the election system has changed since the 66th Adorian Election.

The National Assembly elects all of her 85 seats in a Simulated/Popular Vote hybrid system that is scheduled using a 4:1 ratio of AES to Popular Vote. This election will use AES with the next 2 also using AES.

The main component of the AES is the popular vote which comprises 40% or more while the other 60% or less is simulated based on other factors such as propaganda, party activity, Party member notability, bills proposed, etc composing the rest of the electorate. The AES is overseen by Matthew V. Independent Candidates function outside of the AES and only require 1/85th (1.18%) of the Popular Vote.

## Background

The 96th Government would be a SDP supermajority with Meow Zedong leading the chancellorship into a 2nd term.

### Assembly Activity

The 96th Assembly would be unexpectedly active with a whopping total of 14 bills being proposed, 7 of which were by the KAB. CSM's Lady Alice would pass her *Climate Change Act* which repealed the repeal of the CEE Act which was a climate change law that required Adoria to be within 1.5°C of pre-industrial carbon levels. It passed with 72.22% in favor. The KAB would viciously attack this law claiming societal collapse would be inevitable and the bill was anarcho-primitivist in nature. They invited all parties to work with them to form a bipartisan and pragmatic climate solution but none would answer their call. KAB's King Adoria would pass his Pragmatic Bipartisan Climate Change Act that based carbon levels on the 20th century average. It would pass with 66.67% in favor but it would be vetoed on April 5th 2023, by President Von Oldrich, who is the original author of the CEE Act.

On March 27th 2023, a state visit to the Netherlands would happen. At the banquet the Dutch expressed eagerness to support flood prevention expansion in Adoria. Later that day KAB's King Adoria would propose the *Future Flood Act II* which would increase funding for the Misfortune Mitigation Agency while also creating a diplomatic mission for the Adorian consulate in the Hague to form a communications gateway with the Dutch Rijkswaterstaat in order to learn new flood prevention measures. The bill would tie and VP Montiel would tiebreak against it. Opposition would claim it was badly written. On the 28th, SDP's Shennogo would propose the Space for the River | Adoria which called for a diplomatic mission to collaborate with the Rijkswaterstaat, while also including well formed program goals to be made to infrastructure. It would pass with 91.30% in favor. The KAB would denounce the SDP for opposing their proposal which was compatible with the SDP's plan. The KAB would claim the SDP was acting in only political interests and did not care about the people.

Biggest of all the SDP would propose the Kingslayer Act on March 31st 2023, which abolished the monarchy and ended the constitutional ban on abortion by specifying the right to life applied to *born* life. It would pass by only 1 vote with 66.67% in favor. On April 6th 2023, the changes would be adopted by the server restoring the 6th Federal Republic. The KAB would denounce this bill for including a hidden abortion provision and called for a referendum on the monarchy instead.

### KAB March 2023 Address

On March 22nd 2023, on the 11-month anniversary of KAB's founding, KAB leader King Adoria would release the KAB March Address detailing a shift in KAB's politics voicing support for a nuclear weapons program, withdrawing from the Geneva convention, declaring Ukraine a state sponsor of terrorism, and recognizing Kherson, Donetsk, and other oblasts as Russian territory. This would be widely condemned by many and sparked a Cordon Sanitaire against KAB that would be signed by the SDP deputy Meow Zedong, ALRP leader Baron, and CSM's Lady Alice who held no position in the CSM at the time. The KAB would scoff at their remarks claiming they were simply, *''bourgeois establishment quaking at the mere thought of the people thinking outside of their control''*.

## Results

On April 2nd 2023, the 97th Adorian Election would begin alongside the 43rd presidential election. Once the election concluded a record breaking **85**-hour wait for results would last until their release on April 7th 2023. This would be the longest wait time so far until being surpassed by the 101st general election. While it was expected the SDP would loose seats, it was unexpected that the KAB surpassed them. The KAB's antics had been so critical and oppositional to the SDP they had an opinion on nearly every bill. Despite having 0 seats for a 2nd time, the ACI would not be dissolved by staff who benevolently gifted them another term to stay. Turnout would be **13.00%**, this is the first time since the 90th election that turnout went up instead of down in an election.

## Government Formation

Following the results the KAB and APM would immediately open negotiations. At the same time SDP leader Von Oldrich would approach APM leader Earthly on the possibility of a unityco that would have Earthly as Chancellor in order to keep the KAB out of power. The APM would be open to the idea and would internally discuss it. The KAB-APM would attempt to recruit the CSM and ALRP but both would be unreceptive to the idea, nonetheless the KAB-APM did not need them to achieve a majority but wished to in order to keep them in their political sphere of influence. They would be able to recruit SadBroccoli and Lich offering both secretary position in the government. The APM would disagree with the KAB's choice to go with Arjona for chancellor as they viewed him as a meme candidate, inactive, and KAB leadership in a gov could be divisive and viewed as russophillic after the March Address. The APM would suggest having an APM Chancellor which KAB would deny as they held a x10 seat advantage.

At the same time in the SDP negotiations, an APM-SDP-CSM coalition would begin to form with 6 independents giving them 42/85 seats. Lich had agreed to both the SDP and KAB coalitions. It would be a difficult decision but the APM would go with the SDP since APM would prefer to hold Chancellor themselves instead of what they viewed as a meme candidate like Arjona any day. The APM also knew President Von Oldrich would not accept a KAB coalition and they believed Arjona would fail in a VOC costing them government. The APM would agree to both the KAB and SDP coalitions attempting to give themselves the illusion of not going against the KAB as they would not be able to control which coalition the President picked.

On April 8th 2023, President Von Oldrich would announce an APM-SDP-CSM coalition along with 6 unstated independents with Earthly as Chancellor. This however was constitutionally questionable as a KAB-APM-IND coalition had been accepted which was larger by 1 seat 43/85. This dilemma over when and how VOCs are triggered would go unanswered as another issue would take precedence: no party had consented to the coalition in #party-announcements. This requirement had been ignored in the recent times of supermajorities but would now be reasserted by staff. The KAB would offer the APM an olive branch of consenting to the KAB coalition or they will never support Earthly for President. The APM would accept and all parties and indies would agree to the KAB, APM, Lich, SadBroccoli. As the President would not accept this coalition it would trigger a VOC. The VOC would begin on the same day as a vote to approve an EU ascension treaty. An informal backdoor deal would be made by KAB leader KA and SDP deputy Zedong to have the SDP not whip on the chancellor vote, in exchange the KAB would stop whipping against the EU treaty however the KAB had already whipped a large number of kabbers against the EU treaty which couldn't be reversed without making the deal publicly obvious. On April 10th 2023, the VOC would pass with **65.31%** in favor making the 97th government official. The EU treaty would narrowly fail with only **48.33%** (29-31) in favor. Arjona's return to the premiership would be the longest PM comeback yet of 43.5 months surpassing Blueblaze's 41.5 months.

## See Also

* 96th Adorian Election
* 98th Adorian Election
* 43rd Adorian Presidential Election
* Voter Turnout