2021 Chawosaurian Opposition leadership election

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The **2021 Chawosaurian Opposition leadership election** was an opposition leadership race that was originally a recall election to try to forcibly replace the incumbent right-wing Leader of the Opposition Charles Muskie, now the purpose of this election has changed due to Charles Muskie dropping out of the race, this election is set to elect a new Leader of the Opposition. The election was held on Friday, October 1, 2021. The winner of the election is Sydney Lucas Webster and he took office on January 1, 2022. Following Muskie's reluctant withdrawal from the race as a result of his controversial support for the 2021 United States Capitol insurgency in resistance to President Joe Biden's electoral victory, the race was left with two active candidates: Sydney Lucas Webster and Charles Walpole, thus effectively cancelling the originally planned first round election that was set on Friday, March 5, 2021. The election was certified by the government on November 1, 2021, at the Chawopolis Palace.

This election was massively won by Sydney Lucas Webster, Vietnam War veteran, a Chawosaurian Senator, minority leader of the 25th Chawopolis Palace, and grandson of Garfield Lucas Webster whom was Chawosauria's 3rd Prime Minister back in the 1910s. Sydney Lucas Webster is the second man in a role to defeat the moderate Charles Walpole in an opposition leadership election, the first being Charles Muskie in the 2020 Chawosaurian Opposition leadership election. Sydney Webster won this race in a landslide victory, carrying a percentage of 93% against Walpole, a far higher percentage than Muskie's, which was 61% against Walpole. An electoral college wasn't used this time, it was instead used by popular vote. With Webster's victory, he swept six Social Democrats to successfully defended vacancies that were up for special elections in 2021.

It was called by the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party, the major minority party of the Chawopolis Palace, to have Charles Muskie replaced. The decision by the minority party to order a recall against Muskie was motivated by the disastrous first presidential debate for the 2020 U.S. presidential election in the United States. Muskie's first term as Leader of the Opposition was cut short, he is being forced to run for reelection too early due to fierce liberal retaliation against him and his conservative revolution, and Muskie was accused of flirting with Trumpism in the process. Charles Muskie's chances of reelection were badly weakened by the defeat of Donald Trump in the 2020 elections, and now, with the great loss of the United States suffered by right-wing populists and populism in general, and the great regain of the United States blessed to internationalists and the international community gave anti-Muskists more ground to expand. Trump's defeat was widely welcomed by the anti-communist opposition and gave them hope to avoid being associated with Trump as they were back in the 2019 Chawosaurian elections. Due to pressure of the January 6th, 2021 United States Capitol insurrection, Charles Muskie dropped out of the race, which deeply surprised the entire opposition. Muskie bowing out of the race effectively puts an end to the first round election, leaving the election between Sydney Lucas Webster and Charles Walpole.

Sydney Lucas Webster, in the midst of the increasingly unpopular Chawo-Uralic War and because he is part of the famous Webster family of late Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster, had mass appeal, Webster's populist progressive message won him unexpected support from urban and rural capitalist voters, and across the political spectrum believe it or not. Webster's opponent, Charles Walpole, who is also Webster's brother-in-law, which has made the race a little awkward that Webster's sister, Kathleen Webster-Walpole, refused to way in the race, had trouble attracting voters with his centrist message and struggled to attack Sydney Webster and struggled to hurt his chances because of the fact that he was a Prime Minister's grandson, which makes Webster hard to beat. That situation between Webster and Walpole is very similar to that of the 2019 Chawosaurian direct election between Shang Jong Parker and Ekewaka Mikala Kalawai'a, where Ekewaka Kalawai'a tried to run for his own term as Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria after taking office as Supreme Leader to finish Degotoga K. Atagulkalu's term after Atagulkalu died in office in March 2019, but Kalawai'a saw his chances of election undermined by a popular and prominent former Prime Minister Shang Jong Parker, resulting in Kalawai'a getting massively defeated by Parker and Parker takes office as Supreme Leader on January 1, 2020.

Like Shang Parker did against Kalawai'a on election day 2019, Sydney Webster defeats Charles Walpole by a landslide margin of 93.3% - 5.7%, a wider margin than the Parker-Kalawai'a margin in 2019, which was 80-15%. Webster won all states of the world by landslide margins, as well as winning loyalist votes from Ural and Afghanistan considering Chawosauria is at war in these two locations. Webster is the second person in a roll to have beaten Charles Walpole, the first person to defeat Walpole was Charles Muskie in 2020.

## Background

The anti-communist incumbent Supreme Leader, Ekewaka Mikala Kalawai'a, got trounced really bad by the former Prime Minister and nominee of the Chawosaurian Communist Party, Shang Jong Parker, in the 2019 Chawosaurian direct election, and the anti-communists, with the loss of the monarchy, were damned to being in the toothaching position of being the political opposition to Chawosauria's new Communist government that had been in political power since January 1, 2020.

With the monarchy no longer in the anti-communists' hands, they have to prepare for their new role as the opposition against Shang Parker and his Communist Party, who are now in power. Starting in the 2020 Chawosaurian Opposition leadership election, where a Leader of the Opposition (in this case, the Leader of the Capitalist Opposition, 2020-present), needs to be elected to lead this opposition. Unfortunately for the liberal establishment, Charles Muskie, a prominent Chawosaurian conservative, blamed the capitalists' loss on their flirtation to liberal causes, though reality says the opposite. Muskie ran a campaign for Leader of the Opposition against centrist to left-wing candidates. Muskie was surprisingly elected by a landslide in the first round of voting, which, with Muskie winning 61% of the vote, a second round isn't needed. Charles Muskie was elected on March 6th, controversially during the fallout of coronavirus disease 2019 (also known as COVID-19). Muskie was officially inaugurated Leader of the Opposition on July 1, 2020. Muskie won because he offered a conservative alternative to anti-communist politics that the capitalist voters, who were depressed over losing the 2019 election to Shang Parker and his communist party, believed it could be crucial in defeating Parker and the communists in the 2024 midterm elections and the 2029 Chawosaurian direct election.

With Trump seemingly on the verge of a blowout defeat in the 2020 U.S. elections over his pathetic response to a horrible viral pandemic never experienced by the United States since the infamous Spanish flu pandemic in 1918, and the emotional fallout caused by the killing of a black man, George Floyd, by law enforcement, the liberal wing of the anti-Parkerian resistance believed that a downfall of Trump would mean Charles Muskie, who the Chawosaurian media mocked as "the Chawosaurian Donald Trump", may go down to defeat as well if a 2021 opposition leadership election takes place. Progressives plan to fight for a 2021 election to replace Charles Muskie, who they believe Muskie is making the anti-communist resistance look like incompetent racists. Charles Muskie praised the Ku-Klux-Klan, American Slavery, Adolf Hitler and his infamous Nazi Party, and the Confederacy. Muskie joked about lynching black people, and he bragged about wearing blackface occasionally. It is these comments that made the anti-communists look bad in the eyes of the Chawosaurian public. Making matters worse for the anti-communists, Charles Muskie is running against Shang Parker in the 2029 election for the monarchy. Charles Muskie's racial comments are reasons why some anti-communists, all liberals, many moderates, and some conservatives even, want a recall opposition leadership election to replace Charles Muskie. Who has the power to call an opposition leadership election are the opposition political parties serving in the Chawopolis Palace. The left-wing Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party is the only opposition party serving in the 25th Chawopolis Palace, they are holding their status as a minority party of 107 seats to the supermajority Chawosaurian Communist Party's 893 seats.

The Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party have the single-hand authority to call an opposition leadership election simply by passing a resolution through a minority party committee. Negotiations between the Social Democrats and many Anti-Muskie capitalists have already begun on July 6, 2020, and the social democrats stated that if U.S. President Donald Trump does lose reelection in the 2020 U.S. elections, then they will consider ordering a recall election against Charles Muskie.

After a disastrous performance by President Trump in the first presidential debate, the entire capitalist opposition was so angry over the impact on America's global standing the debate had because the capitalists remembered it was Trump who was one of the major factors for their defeat in the 2019 Chawosaurian elections to the Chawosaurian Communist Party, the Social Democratic minority caucus stroke a deal with anti-Muskists that an opposition leadership election will take place in 2021, thus cutting Muskie's first term as Leader of the Opposition short. Donald Trump lost reelection despite retaliation against the election results, Trump's defeat was universally welcomed by the Chawosaurian world, but the loss of the United States as one of those nations in the world with populist world leaders is such a great loss suffered by nationalist and anti-establishment movements across the world, and a great regain of the United States blessed to the post-Cold War world order, Muskie's credibility as a Leader of the Opposition who said populism was the way to unseat Shang Parker was fallen with Trump's defeat, and there are questions as to rather he should run against the communist incumbent in 2029.

## Process

This opposition leadership election was originally going tobe a two-round system but unlike the last opposition election in 2020, there will be no electoral college this time. This is the first opposition leadership election in Chawosaurian history where an electoral college does not exist. This election will be a direct election (not to be confused with a Chawosaurian direct election). Muskie won the popular vote in the last election by a landslide, carrying 61% of the popular vote to all the opposing candidates' 39%.

The anti-Muskie parties will have all hold primaries for the nominations of their respective parties to face Muskie in the first round (March 5, 2020). It is decided that the primaries will be held on Friday, January 1, 2021, and the deadline for candidates to announce their candidacies for first-round nominations is December 1, 2020.

The winner of the opposition leadership election will be sworn in on January 1, 2022, at 12:00 AM.

Due to the 2020-present Chawosauria COVID-19 Lockdown in reaction to the COVID-19 Pandemic, absentee ballots will only be used in this election instead of in-person ballots.

## Candidates

Candidates
 First Round Candidates

Since the deadline date of December 1, 2020 to announce a candidacy, there are three candidates, the incumbent Leader of the Opposition, Charles Muskie, and two first round challengers Sydney Lucas Webster of the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party and Charles Walpole of the Chawosaurian Liberal Democrats. The first round is on March 5, 2021, and a candidate needs 50.1% of the first round vote to avoid a second round and win outright.

## Campaign

With Donald Trump going to be out of the picture by January 20, 2021, Charles Muskie losing a mentor would weaken him politically. Muskie is a campion of Trumpism, a new brand of American conservatism, and capitalist voters seemed to have responded to the 2020 U.S. election result with this notion that if Americans rejected Trumpism, then something about Trumpism that might be wrong.

Sydney Webster (a Democrat from the U.S.) and Charles Walpole (a Liberal Democrat from the U.K.), are hoping to turn the 2020 election in the U.S. against Muskie, but the Muskie campaign hopes to paint the 2020 U.S. elections still a success for Republicans, despite losing the presidency, thus becoming an opposition party once again, the GOP still had success down the 2020 ballot, they gained around 10 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives despite failing to flip the chamber, and won control of the New Hampshire state legislature, won control of the governorship in Montana without losing of their own governor seats, and doing better than expected in the U.S. Senate elections though could still lose the Senate with a Democratic Vice President tie-breaking a 50-50 Senate in favor of the Democrats and not so much for the Republicans.

But Chawosaurians don't pay attention to down ballot politics in the U.S., just the politics of Washington, DC.

Unable to perform the pre-pandemic art of politics and due to the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, the three candidates have to campaign virtually, and absentee ballots will have to be used. Charles Muskie learned from the mistakes of the 2020 Trump campaign regarding absentee ballots, the Secretary of State of the U.S. State of Georgia alleged that Trump politicizing absentee ballots backfired in Georgia because seniors who were Trump voters have turned against absentee ballots due to listening to Trump, but ended up choosing to stay home on election night because that senior was concerned about potentially catching COVID-19 on the ground of in-person voting, resulting in Joe Biden becoming the first Democrat since Bill Clinton in his '92 victory to win Georgia, and the same could be true for other swing states that Biden flipped.

Charles Muskie decided not to politicize absentee ballots, so instead he encouraged his core supporters to vote absentee. So did Webster and Walpole.

Charles Muskie got angry over the 2021 U.S. Capitol insurgency, in which Trump supporters stormed the U.S. capitol in an attempt to block Joe Biden from becoming the 46th President of the United States, and on the same day, the U.S. Republican Party lost control of the U.S. Senate, losing its first election since the 2012 U.S. elections. Charles Muskie surprised the entire opposition by announcing he will not run for a second term as Leader of the Opposition due to fear that the situation in Washington DC, will hurt him politically, because he strongly supported the Trump movement, and that support may sink his reelection chances.

By dropping out of the race, Muskie caused an open seat election just between Sydney Webster and Charles Walpole who were formerly first round candidates.

## Results

Sydney Lucas Webster won the election with 93.3% of the popular vote. Charles Walpole, the runner-up, finished with 5.7% of the popular vote, his worst result than that of the 2020 Chawosaurian Opposition leadership election in which he still lost against Charles Muskie.

## See also

* 2020 Chawosaurian Opposition leadership election