2030 Libirachi National Congress Election

The **2030 Libirachi National Congress Election** was held on October 1, 2030 across the Libirachi Empire to elect congresspeople to the 29th National Congress, in order for the congress to be able to elect a president on October 7th 2030.

During the preceding 28th National Congress, Damien Salamander became the first elected president since 2010 and presided over a series of vast constitutional changes at the behest of Empress Penny Fox. Following the Wahngso Crisis of 2026, the 2027 Global Banking Crisis, and the start of the Invasion of Loxenia in August 2030, President Salamander had managed to secure a series of policy successes during his second term in office and subsequently started to become increasingly independent in his approach to government, backed by a growing anti-monarchist faction within the Libirachi Revolutionary Party. In early 2029, congressional chairman Li Zhanshu passed an act to move the electoral cycle back by several months in order to allow the government to better coordinate its responses to ongoing political crises.

Between March 1, 2030 and September 17, 2030, every province held elections across each tier of local government, which each tier electing members to the level above themselves. On October 1, 2030, all of the fifteen sector congresses nominated approximately 200 representatives to multi-member constituencies to serve 5 year terms in the national level Libirachi National Congress. Out of the 2980 seats, 581 were reserved for military officials, giving them a position of influence within the legislature, though much of this influence had been stripped following the attempted coup of 2026; additionally, the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order wielded significant amounts of power over the selection of representatives after having launched an infiltration of local level Revolutionary party groups, whilst both COMPNOR and the government held legal power to choose representatives of the Imperial Army to sit in congress.

Following the election, the Revolutionary party remained as the largest party but continued to loose seats to the COMPNOR Political Bureau, which remained the third largest group within congress, whilst all other major parties retained their pre-election number of representatives. With no significant opposition, Li Zhanshu was once again re-elected to a 5 year term as Chairman of the National Congress. On October 7, 2030, the 29th National Congress elected Damien Salamander to a third term as president of the Libirachi Empire; within hours of taking office again, Salamander dismissed supreme commander Chen Bingde from office and installed his ally Fang Torrent as leader of the armed forces, and the 581 seats the army held in congress.

As President Damien Salamander and the Revolutionary party attempted to become politically independent from Empress Penny Fox, the 29th National Congress became a political battleground between the two factions. After a failed bid to amend the constitution to grant the presidency full executive powers, the Salamander administration began attempting to undermine the legislative power of COMPNOR within the chamber. However, these attempts were largely futile and COMPNOR began to retaliate under the leadership of chairwoman Karyn Voor, who took over the organisation in 2031, and started staggered mass arrests of Revolutionary party congresspeople, allowing them to be replaced with COMPNOR loyalists within the Revolutionary party without being publicly seen to be an attack on the party - the infighting between factions within government reached a high point in July 2033 when the Commission conducted a coup d'état against President Salamander and installed Voor as the new President of the Libirachi Empire. Subsequently, the 29th Congress was dissolved and new congresspeople were appointed to fill the 2030 elected allocation of seats to form the 30th National Congress on August 10, 2033. With the outbreak of the Conquest of Africa in September 2033, the 30th National Congress began to cede power to the Karyn Voor I Cabinet in order to allow the government to effectively combat the Bovido Imperium; likewise, the congress voted to establish the Central Military Commission on May 1, 2034 and the subsequent 2034 Libirachi Army Purge allowed the government to finally assert full control over the Libirachi Imperial Army for the first time since the group's formation in 1852. With the armed forces now subject to oversight from the CMC, an institution of the National Congress, the army's role within the congress came under a process of revision which concluded that for the next elections to the congress, the size of the army's seating group should be downgraded by nearly 90% down to 60 seats.