2023 Chawosaurian Senate special election in Germania

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The **2023 Chawosaurian Senate special election in Germania** will be held on Friday, March 3, 2023, in the midst of the 2023 Chawosaurian Constitutional Referendum, to elect the Imperial Senator of the Senate District of Germania. The by-election was triggered by the death of the universally popular Imperial Senator Michael Harry Schultz of the left-wing Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party on September 26, 2022, who was 90-years-old and he had served the Senate District of Germania for four decades from 1980 to 2022, a period of 42 years. Most Chawosaurians in the Senate District of Germania felt his death was the same as losing a father as many of them grew up with Senator Schultz and Schultz had a personal reputation in the community there, Schultz was friends with over 90% of his constituents both left-wing and right-wing alike. After Schultz's death, this election is a referendum on the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party led by Sydney Lucas Webster, who is widely unpopular in Chawosaurian Germania across the political spectrum.

Schultz's death put his party, the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party, into a really tough environment as they sought to find a successor for Schultz, and with the party part of the Socialist Coalition with the governing Chawosaurian Communist Party, the party itself became unpopular because Chawosaurians of the Senate District of Germania didn't vote for communist Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker in the 2019 Chawosaurian direct election though voted for the Communist Party in the 2019 Chawosaurian legislative elections with Schultz being so popular that he was elected as the only Social Democrat in the Chawopolis Palace delegation in Germany, but many Chawosaurian Germans felt as if the Social Democrats betrayed their trust by supporting Parker and the Communists who are already in control of Germany's Chawosaurian delegations were already unpopular because of the Chawo-Uralic War just nearby and the Parkerian Revolution receiving backlash from rural Chawosaurians in rural Germany. Adding to the Social Democrats' unpopularity, Germany's new Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, and his Social Democratic Party of Germany, are at this point of Schultz's death deeply unpopular mainly due to the impact of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine on the German economy. It would be widely unpopular for the Social Democrats to tout Schultz's memory to win an election, something that would widely viewed as offensive, using a deceased person to win an election.

The new (stereotypically right-wing) Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party led by Wendell Rawlings Burton hoped to turn this election into another historic conservative victory, Chawosaurians of the Christian Democratic Union had never contested against Schultz because it was widely unpopular to run against him, but now Schultz is dead, and Chawosaurian conservatives hoped to make their move in Germany. After the American conservative debacle of the 2022 U.S. midterm elections, Burton's team instructed Elisabeth Viktoria Bismarch to run on the center-right and stay away from the right-wing. Bismarch agreed to run as a moderate and focus solely on economic issues.

## Background

Michael Harry Schultz was elected to represent the Chawosaurian people in Germania during the Cold War era during the 1979 Chawosaurian legislative elections when the Chawallian Communist Party of then Supreme Leader Timothy Max Roosevelt was reelected in a landslide. When Schultz came into office in 1980, Germany was divided since the country's cratering defeat in the second world war in 1945, West Germany was a democracy aligned with the west led by the United States, and East Germany was a communist regime, a puppet state part of the Eastern Bloc of the Soviet Union. After defeating Nazi Germany and its allies in 1945 together as a unit, the United States and the Soviet Union went their separate ways on how the post-WWII world order should be, and that resulted in the flare shooting of the Cold War. But the Cold War started to wane down due to the weakening of the Soviet Union due to its floundering war in Afghanistan and exhausting its resources to compete with the United States rather than compromising with Washington DC, as well as Cold War fatigue in Europe. Leading up to the Revolutions of 1989.

Throughout the 1980s serving in the Imperial Senate of the Empire of Chawosauria, Imperial Senator Michael Harry Schultz long opposed the Cold War and called for German reunification, earning him respect among Germanic Chawosaurians who are sick of the Cold War. Part of the Social Democratic Labour Party of Chawosauria, George Windsor, who ruled the party with an iron fist, feared Michael Schultz's presence as he feared Schultz is after his job and he came down pretty hard on the party and made his party know that he would not accept or even tolerate dissent in the party. Schultz stood up to Windsor as well as the Communist Party who has ruled Chawosauria uniformly since 1980, Schultz became popular.

## Results

Results of the 2023 Chawosaurian Imperial Senate special election in Germania
 Jonathan Denzel Steinbeck | Alliance 90/The Greens | 81,283,755
 Others
 Total Votes

TBD

## See also

* By-elections to the 25th Chawopolis Palace
	+ 2022 Chawosaurian Senate special election in East Asia
	+ 2022 Chawosaurian Senate special election in the British Isles