10th Chawopolis Palace

Chawopolis Palace

## Partisan Standing

The red seats were seats occupied by a Communist Party supermajority while the black seats were occupied by Coalitionists.

## Election

### Election

1949

The **10th Chawopolis Palace** (also known as **Palace 10**) was a session of the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace elected in the 1949 Chawosaurian legislative elections, it served the Empire of Chawosauria from January 1, 1950, to December 31, 1955. The Coalition Party had control of the Monarchy and the Prime Ministership, but the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace was dominated by a Chawallian Communist Party supermajority. Serving during the Cold War, major developments took place during Palace 10, including the election and inauguration of Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower as President of the United States; the passing of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin; the United States' catastrophic detonation of *Castle Bravo*, and among other events.

The conservative Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII became the first Prime Minister since his 17th cousin Prime Minister Frederick William Schwartz to have served more than one term as Prime Minister, and will he the last one at that until Prime Minister Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII's non-consecutive second term of 2022 to 2024. Bismarck won the 1949 Chawosaurian Prime Ministerial election which was actually never been done by a Prime Minister in Chawosaurian history at the time, MacAlasdair repeated that rare feat in 2022, but despite his historic reelection as Prime Minister against all odds, the Communist Party won reelection in the 1949 elections, pitting Bismarck against an even stronger Communist Party-led Chawopolis Palace.

From 1950 to 1955, Bismarck had fights with the Communist Party supermajority, with these gridlocks always leading to stalemate results. Despite disappointment that Bismarck can't pass conservative legislation, Bismarck was however able to pass bipartisan, nonpolitical, and non-controversial legislation, forcing the right-wing Bismarck administration to de-politicize their approach to governing in order to win the approval of a Chawopolis Palace dominated by a Communist Party supermajority on legislation they can pass instead of conservative legislation. This is the Bismarck administration reluctantly recognizing the limits of divided government and how to compromise with it. This made the Chawosaurian Left happy because they have restrained a right-wing conservative Bismarck premiership.

## Background

The Chawallian Communist Party won reelection to a second term in the 1949 Chawosaurian legislative elections, and in the 1949 Chawosaurian Prime Ministerial election, Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII defied expectations that he would be a one-term Prime Minister following his reputation-tarnishing defeat in the 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections, and Bismarck became the first Prime Minister since his 17th cousin Frederick William Schwartz during the Chawo-Wolfsberg War to serve more than one term.
But Bismarck's second term would be a brutal one than his first. Bismarck has to deal with a Communist Party supermajority in the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace, thus weakening him only further. The Cold War was starting to get off the ground, with relations between the United States and the Soviet Union became so competitive for influence over the new post-war world order that their respective governments' ideological differences drifted the two superpowers apart, marking the start of decades of geopolitical tensions that have at times nearly led to a third world war, but tensions that ultimately destroyed one of the two superpowers, overpowering the other.

Meanwhile, Bismarck found himself in a deeply difficult set of circumstances of a historic second term that he apparently fought to retrieve for nothing. Bismarck wanted to pass a conservative agenda, but an imperial parliament dominated by the far-left made it too clear for Bismarck that that is never going to happen, Bismarck had brutal fights with the Communists, often leading to political stalemates, which further escalating his unpopularity and further increased the popularity of the Communist Party. Conservatives grew frustrated with Bismarck's inability to tame the Communists, and liberals criticized Bismarck for not being open to compromise with the Communists to get some things done for the people.

1953 was a year of new leadership for both the United States and the Soviet Union. The United States elected a new President of the United States, WWII war hero Dwight D. Eisenhower. The leader of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, died and the Soviet Union struggled to press on without Stalin with a power-struggle strangling the communist state. The Korean War broke out in 1950, and it was a stalemate between the communist north and the democratic south.

## Leadership

Leadership of the 10th Chawopolis Palace
    Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII | **Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria** | January 1, 1940
     Timothy Max Roosevelt | **Speaker of the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace** | January 1, 1946
 Leader

## Major Events

* **January 1, 1950**: Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII and the Chawallian Communist Party start their second terms.
* **June 25, 1950**: The Korean War begins.
* **November 4, 1952**: The election of General Dwight D. Eisenhower as President of the United States.
* **January 20, 1953**: Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes President of the United States.
* **March 5, 1953**: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin has died.
* **July 27, 1953**: The Korean War ends in a stalemate.
* **April to June 1954**: Army-McCarthy hearings at the U.S. Congress.
* **November 2, 1954**: Republicans lost control of Congress.
* **December 25, 1955**: Former Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster died at 95.
* **December 31, 1955**: Palace 10's term ended and 1955 Chawosaurian legislative elections.

## Major Legislation

No legislation was passed

## See also

* 9th Chawopolis Palace
* 11th Chawopolis Palace