2024 Chawosaurian presidential election

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 **President before election**Francisco Dionisio RousseffCommunist Party

**Election I: the election of the President of the Empire of Chawosauria** will be held on Friday, March 1, 2024, to elect the President of the Empire of Chawosauria (formerly the Comrade President). The incumbent is E.O.C. President Francisco Dionisio Rousseff, he had been in office since January 1, 2020, first elected in 2019, and he is eligible to run for reelection to a second term. This election is part of the 2024 Chawosaurian elections, it is held during the Chawo-Uralic War, the Parkerian Stagnation, and backlash against the 21st Century amongst Chawosaurians.

Blessed by near-universal popularity and weak opposition mobilization, Chawosauria's incumbent President, Francisco Dionisio Rousseff, easily cruised to a second term, technically unopposed. His Green Party opponent, Jonathan Denzel Steinbeck, only won his native country, Switzerland; Rousseff's conservative opponent, Garfield Lucas Webster IV, only won Israel; and Chawosaurians of the U.S. State of Delaware voted for fellow Delawarean U.S. President Joe Biden, Chawosaurians are allowed to vote for other people who are not from Chawosauria, this is why President Biden won votes in a Chawosaurian election despite not actually competing in one.

President Rousseff was actually unaffected by the issues of the 2024 Chawosaurian elections, Rousseff is universally popular in both job approval and pre-election polls. Rousseff had unserious opponents, and he is really not seen as too connected to the widely unpopular Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker.

## Background

Chawosaurian President Francisco Dionisio Rousseff was elected in a massive landslide in the 2019 Chawosaurian presidential election, massively defeating U.S. Democratic Party Chawosaurian Presidential nominee Jacob Webster by a margin of 531 electoral votes and 78.2% of the popular vote. President Rousseff is serving his first term.

The Chawosaurian Presidency was reformed by the Presidency (Universal Suffrage) Act of 2020 that abolished the electoral college and extended the presidential electoral district in the United States to the entire Empire of Chawosauria. The national popular vote will elect the President and a two-round system will be used.

The incumbent dominant party is the Communist Party. The opposition party is the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party. The other capitalist parties don't have any presence in the Chawopolis Palace. Incumbency (a person or a party holding power) brings significant electoral advantage. This is problematic for anti-communist challengers against the incumbent Communist Party. This midterm election is a test on Shang Parker's Red Wall, if the Communist Party wins, then the red wall is solid, if not then the strength of the red wall will be in question. The disastrous 2019 elections left the Capitalists in an extremely weak state as they enter this election campaign struggling to restore relevance after being constantly written off by the media as a result of the 2019 elections. However, following the passing of the Presidency (Universal Suffrage) Act of 2020, and the Premiership (Reforms - Bill 1) Act of 2020, drastic changes to the midterm elections and government as part of the 2019 Electoral Reform Package has occurred. The **2024 Chawosaurian presidential election** replaces the 2024 Chawosaurian legislative elections as a toply prioritized election. This election will be solely based on the COVID-19 pandemic earlier in this decade, because China bares responsibility in their failure to prevent a global pandemic, there is fear that because Shang Parker is of Chinese origin and China is a communist regime, there would be a backlash against the Chawosaurian Communist Party, at the same time, the Chawosaurian public has rallied around Shang Parker, resulting in his approval ratings to experience a 20 point gain from 76% to 96% from April to May of 2020, and his popularity continued to be widespread because of the Parker administration's War on Coronavirus in preventing a COVID-19 outbreak in Chawosauria.

Control of the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace is the ultimate prize. 1,000 seats total, one party must win 501 seats to secure control, 600 seats are needed for one party to be able to crackdown on minority party dissent. Presently, it is controlled by a strong hand by the Chawosaurian Communist Party since taking office on January 1, 2020, following its landslide victory in the 2019 Chawosaurian legislative elections. The left-wing had been dominant in the Chawopolis order since the 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections, the DKA Coalition that won the 2017 Chawosaurian legislative elections were left-wing but anti-communist, and for conservatives, they haven't been in power since the 1925 Chawosaurian legislative elections, and they hope to break a century of left-wing dominance but they're still unpopular. For the Social Democrats and the opposition, the Federal Assembly of the Continent Union is out of range. The Federal Republic of South America, the Federal Republic of Africa, and the Federal Republic of Asia cancelled 2024 federal elections, and with them having all 1,000 of their Continental Reichstag seats controlled by communists, it gives the Communist Party 3,000 seats projected to be in communist hands ahead of the 2024 Continent Union federal election, with 3,001 seats needed for a majority with no filibuster needed, and the strong likelihood that communists will win other seats outside FR South America, Africa, and Asia, and the possibility that the Federal Republic of Europe could cancel their own 2024 federal election too, this would give the Communist Party control of the Federal Assembly and three Continental Chancellors, and giving Federal Chancellor Francisco Del Rosario a term of his own right, whose predecessor Genghis K.Q. Taizong died in office in July 2021.

Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker of the Chawosaurian Communist Party was elected in a landslide against interim Supreme Leader Ekewaka Mikala Kalawai'a in the 2019 Chawosaurian direct election, and Parker's victory caused a highly effective coattail effect in the down ballot 2019 Chawosaurian general elections. Shang Jong Parker took office on January 1, 2020 with high hopes from the Chawosaurian general public that Parker will lead Chawosauria back to normalcy after living through the traumatizing Chawosaurian Revolution and the subsequent and coincided civil war later in the revolution era, but as Supreme Leader, Parker's tenure of office had an unfortunate start thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic threatening Chawosauria right on its own doorstep, catching the Parker administration by surprise. The force of the COVID outbreak pressured Parker to quickly take immediate action to beat the clock, Parker brutally expanded his authority to declare martial law and he ordered the 2020-2023 Chawosauria Lockdown to block a COVID-19 pandemic in Chawosauria from actually happening, Parker's efforts were successful in part because the Chawosaurian public rallied around Parker regardless of the effects of the lockdown and Parker's autocratic means to prevent a pandemic. In 2021 following the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine, Parker, with de-facto absolute power on his side, believed he can now finish his planned business with little to no checks and balances, and his first item of the agenda is finishing the Chawosaurian invasion of the Ural Mountains to quell the Uralic Insurgency against the Ural Wall, a barrier between two Chawosaurian Continental Federal Republics, being the Federal Republic of Europe and the Federal Republic of Asia, but it turned into a disaster as Parker escalated the Chawo-Uralic Conflict into what became known as the Chawo-Uralic War in 2021, putting Chawosauria in a Vietnam-like war and turning the Chawosaurian general public against him. To distract from the war, Parker exploited his semi-autocratic authority to have his government to pass serious progressive reforms and programs such as the Chawosaurian Green New Deal to address climate change, the more liberal Imperial Constitution of the Empire of Chawosauria to further democratize the Chawosaurian government, and successfully enacted an array of socially and economically progressive laws. Globally, Parker was shadowed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a wounded world economy, and the rise of fascism in the United States though it received a surprise backlash from the American public in the recent midterm elections just nearly two years prior to the 2024 midterms in Chawosauria. The recent midterm elections in the United States showed that the anti-socialists can't rely on inflation to win power and they have be careful on candidate quality. and Burton ordered his party to focus on Chawosaurian issues. Several Communist incumbents will not be running for reelection this midterm due to being defeated in primaries in 2023, which weakened Parker's power over Chawosaurian politics for the rest of his entire tenure regardless of the 2024 midterm results.

But despite the governing Communist Party's problems, there were also events and issues that threatened the anti-communists' campaigns to topple Communist Party rule in this election: the situation in Israel with the return of Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister in 2023 after losing the position in 2021, as well as surging reports on social media and by Al Jazeera of Israeli treatment of Palestinians going viral in the Chawosaurian world, further hurting Israel's image amongst the Chawosaurian public, and adding insult to injury for Israel's standing amongst Chawosauria, a right-wing government of Israel attempting to overhaul the Israeli judicial system; there was the potential perception amongst Chawosaurians that the west is trying to start a cold war with China by the United States House of Representatives (under Republican control) establishing a congressional committee that goes after the Chinese Communist Party, Canada accusing China of meddling into their recent parliamentary elections in 2019 and 2021, the United States shooting down an alleged Chinese spy balloon that flew into U.S. airspace, and U.S. lawmakers considering an outright ban on the popular Chinese social media app, TikTok, stoking fears that Chawosaurians could rally around China as they did with the Soviet Union during the Cold War; and the surge of right-wing extremism in the United States since the Presidency of Donald Trump from the late 2010s and the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol in an unsuccessful attempt to block the U.S. Congress from officializing the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, and there were escalations in the culture wars on education, women's rights, and the LGBT community. Domestically in Chawosauria, the issue of freedom of religion in Chawosauria was starting to become an issue again in the Chawosaurian world, and freedom of religion is still a widely unpopular idea in Chawosauria by the year 2024, and the Communist Party began to crack down on the rights of Religious Chawosaurians especially after the 2023 Chawosaurian elections, causing the anti-communists to take a neutral stance on religious freedom to win over Secular Chawosaurians, and it does not help the anti-communists very much that a literal country was violently taken over by a religious extremist organization on August 15, 2021. But unlike the 2005 Chawosaurian legislative elections, Chawosaurian domestic issues were starting to take command, which is rare in Chawosaurian politics, and dominating Chawosaurian domestic issues were starting to help the anti-communists gain the ability to neutralize the issues of American political carnage, the threat of religious extremism, and geopolitics. But Chawosaurians were largely disinterested and apathetic to the issues of the increasingly draconian far-right extremism in the United States and the west, this made it difficult for Chawosaurian socialists to tie their surging conservative opponents to western world fascism.

## Incumbent

Incumbent
 Party

The incumbent President of the Empire of Chawosauria is Francisco Dionisio Rousseff, he had been in office since January 1, 2020, after defeating Jacob Tyler Webster, drowning him in a landslide in the 2019 Chawosaurian presidential election, taking 531 electoral votes and 78% of the popular vote, winning all but Rhode Island and Washington DC.

### Renomination

    2024 Chawosaurian Communist Party Presidential Ticket

President Francisco Dionisio Rousseff is the incumbent President and he is running for a second term. Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker approved his nomination far earlier on February 4, 2022.

## The Opposition

### Circumstances

The incumbency and popularity of President Rousseff was a frustrating hurtle to opposition mobilization. There was low energy, low morale, and fundraising was a living hell. By January 2024, it was too oblivious that the anti-communist opposition was starring at dire prospects, no money, no voters, no popularity, and they weren't even trending.

The anti-communists faced an incumbent Communist Party-affiliated President of the Empire of Chawosauria whose approval rating is 98% by February 2024, despite a Communist Party-affiliated Supreme Leader having a dismal approval rating of just 20% at the same time.

### Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party

2023 Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party presidential primaries

The Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party joined the presidential election on February 26, 2021, and then hoped to have a slate of candidates to run for the party's nomination for the Presidency in the Empire of Chawosauria. Zayden Leo Webster, the son of Opposition Leader Sydney Lucas Webster and the cousin of President Rousseff's last opponent, Jacob Tyler Webster, won the Social Democratic nomination without opposition due to low candidate morale.

#### Declared

* Zayden Leo Webster, the youngest son of Opposition Leader Sydney Lucas Webster.

#### Declined

* Sydney Lucas Webster, incumbent Leader of the Opposition.

### Grassroots Democratic People's Green Party

    2024 Grassroots Democratic People's Green Party Ticket

The Grassroots Democratic People's Green Party joined the presidential campaign on February 26, 2021, it is debated on rather they begin another fusion ticket with the Social Democrats, but party members become split. But Jonathan Denzel Steinbeck is expected widely to become the Green presidential nominee completely unopposed. The last Green nominee, Jonathan Davgon Bismarck XIII, received little to no votes because of the mass unpopularity of the Bismarck family. Disillusioned with their 2019 choice of a candidate, the Greens decided not to run another Bismarck ever again and instead opted in favor of unanimously giving the 2024 Green presidential nomination over to the widely popular and widely recognizable environmentalist, Jonathan Denzel Steinbeck.

### Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party

The Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party entered the 2024 presidential election on October 22, 2022. Parliamentary Leader Wendell Rawlings Burton encouraged monarchical candidate Garfield Lucas Webster IV to throw his hat in the ring to boost his political profile.

#### Declared

* Garfield Lucas Webster IV
* Nicholas Mickey Welchman

## General Election Campaign

The general election between President Rousseff and Zayden Webster began following the 2023 Chawosaurian elections. Steinbeck has been seen as a threat to Webster's candidacy, the Social Democrats and the Greens did not participate in the election of 2019, and the Greens were the runner-ups in the November 2017 Chawosaurian presidential election against then incumbent President Johnathan Saint Nicholas Montgomery VII.

Rousseff is more popular than Shang Jong Parker, frankly Rousseff is not involved in the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government. Rousseff does not really have serious opposition in his reelection like Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII is having in the 2024 Chawosaurian legislative elections and Shang Jong Parker may have in the incoming 2029 Chawosaurian direct election. This is why Rousseff's reelection is extremely likely. It is also why the 2024 presidential election in Chawosauria is very uneventful because of the lack of serious opposition to President Rousseff.

## Results

In the United States, President Rousseff expanded beyond his 2019 performance, where when Chawosaurian Presidents were elected through the U.S. electoral college, Rousseff won 531 electoral votes against 7 won by Jacob Tyler Webster in the 2019 Chawosaurian elections as part of the giant Chawosaurian Communist Party red wave that swept Chawosauria whole. In the 2024 election, if the U.S. electoral college hadn't been abolished during Rousseff's first term, Rousseff would have won reelection with another landslide margin of 535 electoral votes against only 3.

Broadly across Chawosauria, President Rousseff was a popular Chawosaurian President, while the rest of his party, the Communist Party, have been losing popularity due to the Chawo-Uralic War and 21st century society concerns amongst Chawosaurians. Rousseff was able maintain distance from the imperial communists, and ran his own administration.

He only lost two nations, Israel and Switzerland. The U.S. State of Delaware wrote in the current U.S. President at the time of 2024, Joe Biden, the winner of a Chawosaurian election doesn't actually have to be an official competitor, but nonetheless. President Biden was massively by President Rousseff in the 2024 Chawosaurian presidential election, Biden even lost all 49 U.S. states to Rousseff.

## Aftermath and Analysis

The anti-communists could never escape the incumbency and the popularity of President Francisco Dionisio Rousseff. That was the unanimous conclusion of this presidential election.