Mandate to the People Act of 2010

Also known as
 President
 Repealed

The **Mandate to the People Act of 2010**, known simply as the **MPA** or **Mandate to the People** after the political slogan used by President Nathan Jackson, was a wide-reaching act of legislation which ran between the 23rd and 26th National Congresses and served as a platform for President Jackson's set of reforms to bring about democracy to the Libirachi Empire.

The Mandate to the People Act served as the core of President Jackson's political platform and secondary legislation would become attached to it throughout the course of the 23rd and 24th Congresses, allowing for the re-introduction of legislative elections to Libirachi National Congress and the reinstatement of the body in 2010 - later amendments to the bill would attempt to mandate elections every 5 years, although no election under the MPA would be held before its revoking in 2019 in the aftermath of the 2019 Libirachi Coup d'état which came about after the attempted introduction of the Patriot Act (2019) and the Route To Freedom Act of 2019.

## Amendments

 **President of the Libirachi Empire****Presidency • Cabinet** 2010 Libirachi Presidential Election • Planned 2015 Libirachi Presidential Election • Libirachi Democratic Transitional Council • Imperial Security Bureau • Libirachi Revolutionary Party • Hǔnluàn • Quokka • **Mandate to the People Act of 2010** • Patriot Act (2019) • Route To Freedom Act of 2019 • Second Thaw • Invasion of Iran • 2019 Libirachi Coup d'état

1. Reinstating the Libirachi National Congress (2010)
2. Inclusion of the democratic right to hold elections (2010)
3. Revoking Presidential impunity from prosecution and trial (2014)
4. Mandating elections for the presidency to be held every 5 years (2015)
5. Inclusion of the Route To Freedom Act of 2019 (2019)

## Legacy

As only the second democratically elected leader of the Libirachi Empire, Nathan Jackson's victory in the 2010 Libirachi Presidential Election proved that democracy could work within the nation, with the true aim of the Jackson administration being the eventual democratisation of the nation as specified in the unpublished Route To Freedom roadmap of 2019, which was ultimately due to be published after the completion of the Patriot Act of 2019, although as history knows this was never the case thanks to the Libirachi Civil War of 2019. Following the Xi Kanna and Jacob Zuma regimes, the government power pretty much stayed the same until the Jackson administration began to attempt to cause systematic change of the nation in the 2010s, attempting to rein in the power of the Libirachi Imperial Army and effectively bring democracy to the nation, with Jackson’s Revolutionary party storming the 2010 National Congress elections. Despite this urge to do good, the Jackson administration was continuously foiled by members of the LIA who eventually rose up in a coup in 2019, placing former education secretary Dame Laura Fox as the new President in what was largely viewed at the time to be a puppet regime. Proving her nay-sayers wrong, President Fox managed to pull the army under her thumb and began to set about consolidating power, before passing the Assent Bill (2019) which granted the President's choice of regent the right to take the throne of the Libirachi Empire. Selecting herself, Fox was crowned as Empress Laura Fox on November 11th, 2019 and appointed fellow coup leader Xi Jimping as a replacement President, bringing the 167 years of the Imperial Republic to an end. Remembered as a staunch democrat fighting against all sides and often members of his own government for progress, Nathan Jackson is remembered as a martyr in the cause of Libirachi Democratisation internationally and by historians, whilst state propaganda paints a different picture of Jackson as a corrupt official who's poor handling of the nation left the armed forces no choice but to depose him and replace his regime with that of Laura Fox. Regarded as one of only a handful of the nation's leaders to properly attempt to bring about the introduction of free elections, even members of Jackson's own cabinet such as Alastar Brigman and Ashley Young actively worked against his campaign for freedom and ultimately continued to serve in the new order after its formation in 2019.