103rd Adorian Election

## Electoral System

*Further information:* AES explanatory doc*,* PMA explanatory doc

The National Assembly elects all of her 85 seats in a Simulated and Popular Vote hybrid in which the election schedule uses a 4:1 ratio of AES to Popular Vote. This election will use AES with the next 1 also using AES.

The main component of the AES is the popular vote which comprises 40% or more while the other 60% or less is simulated based on other factors such as propaganda, party activity, Party member notability, bills proposed, etc composing the rest of the electorate. At the very most AES accounts for 60% of seats which serves as a bonus system for activity but if these AES seats were not earned due to inactivity throughout the term then they are reimbursed to be popular vote seats. The AES is overseen by Matthew V. Independent Candidates function outside of the AES and only require 1/85th (1.18%) of the Popular Vote.

## Background

On July 9th 2023, the 102nd government formed consisting of the APM, PP, and KAB with Mr. Nugget as Chancellor for a 2nd term. A total of 36 bills would be proposed in the 102nd National Assembly.

On July 11th 2023, Treasury Secretary Soy Trap would propose the 102nd Federal Budget which would spend only 90.00% of government revenue making this the most austerious budget in all of Adorian history. It would pass the next day with 54.05% in favor making this a rare partisan budget.

On July 13th 2023, Lemonn would ask President Bossman to veto the *Adorian Environmental Penalization Act* which Lemonn himself wrote. This would be the first known time ever someone requested to have their own bill vetoed, and a rare instance of someone voting against their own bill. This was due to Lemonn having a realization that his bill was mediocre and rather omnibus in how it was both a pollution and animal rights bill which was rather politically unprofessional. President Bossman would not veto the bill after it passed with 66.67% in favor.

### Polygate

On July 3rd 2023, Governor Ethan would pass the *Mediterraneo Language Act* making latin the official language of his province. 8 days later, Interior Secretary Poly would issue his *Official Languages Act* EO which would override Ethan's law with Adorian, Greek, Italian, and Lavandi. After receiving a Writ of Mandamus by Chief Justice Hyort, Poly would withdraw his EO after being informed it was not within the scope of his department's EO powers.

The next day on July 12th 2023, ALRP Co-leader Shennogo would introduce a vote of censures against Poly along with censures against King Adoria and Chancellor Nugget who had signed the EO. Poly's censure would pass with 52.94% in favor while the censures against KA and Nugget failed with only 48.00% and 48.15% in favor of each respectively. Advocates would argue that Poly had displayed incompetence and abuse of power while critics argued the blowback was overblown and politically motivated as many EOs in the past had never gained such a response even when filled with errors. On July 21st 2023, Secretary Poly would introduce a bill version of his EO which also included English which would fail with only 30.56% in favor.

### 2023 Droughts

On June 30th 2023, the Office for Natural Disasters (OND) would issue a warning that inevitable droughts were incoming that would negatively effect water supplies, the ecosystem, and the agricultural sector. On July 15th 2023, SDP's Bossman would propose the *Zempista Hydro Act* which created a hydro power dam in Eastern Synaro. By July 17th 2023, full summer heat waves would strike Adoria causing energy blackouts and water scarcity which would indirectly cause a rise in crime and traffic. 2 days later SDP leader SoleSol would propose the *Solar Farm Construction Act* which did as implied in order to alleviate the energy shortages caused by the droughts. Both SDP bills would pass with supermajorities. On July 21st 2023, Infrastructure Secretary King Adoria would propose the National Strategic Water Reserve Act which created a strategic water reserve to manage public needs of water along with ordering the construction of a desalination plant; it would pass unanimously. The next day KA would re-propose the Golan Heights Act of 2023 which had previously been vetoed by the late President Von Oldrich this time preaching the value of Israeli's surplus water diplomacy and the benefits it could bring to Adoria in this time of need. Despite this the bill would fail with only 36.67% in favor. The last bill for the term would be President Bossman's Water Desalination Plant Construction Act which constructed 4 salt water plants; it would pass unanimously.

### Adoria v. Ethan

On July 11th 2023, federal police would arrest fmr. CSM leader Ethan after it was discovered he had proudly admitted to playing a pivotal role in providing necessary logistics leading to the assassination of the late President Von Oldrich. While Ethan may not have been the uncaptured unknown assailant, his arrest was the next best thing for justice and closure for the Von Oldrich Estate. Shortly after this #event-news announcement, Ethan would make a gubernatorial statement criticizing Otto's Presidency and saying, ''I did what I had to do''. Ethan would be represented by StarsBees and the deceased President by Meow Zedong. The defence would argue that #event-news did not provide any evidence to its claims while prosecution argued Ethan had basically admitted to his crimes in both #event-news and in his own vague announcement.

On July 16th 2023, a verdict would be delivered by the Supreme Court finding Ethan guilty of Aiding and Abetting, Conspiracy, Treason, and 1st Degree Murder while being innocent of insurrection. He would be sentenced to 2 life sentences +20 years (28 irl days) and a ₺250k fine (Adoria was operating under the eurozone at this time).

### The Year that Never Was

On July 21st 2023, VP MarceL would be removed by the Supreme Court due to excluding StarsBees in a speaker election. VP MarceL had taken this course of action owing to StarsBees not being an MNA at the start time of the speaker election, nevertheless this had been found as an abuse of authority by the court as it was interpreted as the 24h MNA transfer rule not existing since it was meta. This left VP MarceL with no defence for his actions. The President would consider nominating Lux Jefferson to the vacancy but would be unable to debate the nomination with less than 48 hours left to the term.

On July 22nd 2023, Chancellor Nugget would suddenly rage quit after failing to secure the endorsement of KAB in the 46th presidential election. On July 23rd 2023, President Bossman would be faced with the opportunity to appoint a new chancellor as he still held the controversial and ottocratic powers to do so without consulting any coalition party. In a controversial interpretation of the constitution Chief Justice Hyort would argue that presidential succession applied to Vice Presidents in cases of emergencies, going against historic precedents on VP succession and the framers' intentions. Using this, President Bossman would appoint Tomi as the new Chancellor which automatically succeeded him to the Vice Presidency. 38 minutes later, President Bossman would resign making Tomi the next President who would shortly be inaugurated by CJ Hyort. Bossman's reasons for resigning would be to have some fun instead of moping about doing nothing in the lame duck period of his presidency since the 46th presidential election had already began to determine his successor.

As President, Tomi would make make Bossman his Vice President and appointed Lich to be the next Chancellor. Shortly later it would be found that Bossman had rejoined the SDP before resigning as President thus forfeiting the Presidency and along with it the legitimacy of his appoint of Tomi to Vice President, making the current Presidency and Chancellorship being held by Tomi and Lich unconstitutional. Chief Justice Hyort would publicly acknowledge error on his part of inaugurating Tomi and subsequently issued a writs of Quo Warrantos against Chancellor Lich, along with Tomi's other appointments: Treasury Secretary TheyTheminator, Foreign Secretary Shennogo, and StarsBees who repudiated the vice chancellorship offered to him by immediately resigning.

This would all be escalated by Defense Secretary Auber who would soon declare martial law and arrest President Tomi, Chancellor Lich, and Foreign Secretary Shennogo. After just 77 minutes, Tomi's presidency would be the shortest in Adorian history. Auber's coup would be the first form of canon insurrection since the Adorian Situation Uprising and the first successful player-led insurrection since Operation Albion 3 years ago. Later that day Auber would free Lich, Bossman, Shennogo after the situation calmed down while also mobilizing the Army in order to secure stability until a new government was elected. Navy Admiral Reeves would pledge naval support to Auber's actions in advancing the military junta.

The next day on July 24th 2023, Defence Secretary Auber and Chief Justice Hyort would announce they had agreed to restore the original 102nd government helmed by Mr. Nugget (who rejoined the server a day after quitting) and inaugurate Vice Chancellor Mahfety to the Presidency as he was next in line. In doing this Auber would successfully deliver in his promises in guiding Adoria across the crisis delivering constitutional government and rule of law. Jimmy Mahfety would be inaugurated shortly after this announcement making Jimmy the first President to acquire the Presidency by being 3rd in-line for succession beating out Based Autocrat's 2nd in-line record from over 2 years ago in May 2021.

President Mahfety's first action would be to pardon Auber, Reeves, Tomi (thus freeing Tomi from prison) from any potential crimes they committed across the crisis. He would also not protest Auber's last action of restoring Mr. Nugget to the chancellorship (which Auber had no authority to do so) as Jimmy supported the legitimacy of the Nugget Cabinet. Thus concluding the crisis.

## Results

On July 22nd 2023, the 103rd general election would begin concurrent with the 46th presidential election and end the next day in classic tradition. The APM would be in disarray unable to effectively whip due to Mr. Nugget leaving the server and Earthly being on a Greek vacation. After a 76-hour wait results would be released on July 27th 2023. KAB's rise would be expected as they had seen a rise of activity in the 102nd term while APM fell harder than anticipated. SDP's increase was also unsurprising as the longer they stayed in Opposition the stronger they grew. Turnout: **16.20%**.

## Government Formation

With the release of results the SDP would explore the possibility of an SDP-KAB coalition which would have made it the first GroKo style 2-party coalition ever formed in Adoria. Arjona would briefly negotiate the idea with the SDP simply to troll them. The KAB would go with its fellow rightwing parties as it always had and a KAB-PP-APM coalition would be negotiated exceedingly quick. The chancellorship would go to APM as repayment for the 99th government when APM had given the chancellorship to KAB despite their smaller size at the time. The contrast in seats would be steeper here as APM was the smallest coalition member party and 1/4 of KAB's size as opposed to how KAB had been 1/2 of APM's size in the 99th government and still larger than the other 2 parties in that 4-party coalition. This would be reminiscent of the 65th government which was also chancellor'd by the smallest coalition party. After only 5 hours and 40 minutes from when results were released, President Mahfety would announce the new government later that day with Earthly as Chancellor. This would make it one of the more faster governments to be formed especially as some Adorians had been awake for less than an hour to negotiate it (King Adoria).

## See Also

* 102nd Adorian Election
* 104th Adorian Election
* 46th Adorian Presidential Election
* Voter Turnout

1. ↑ Lemonn is a man from Southern Ireland who should not be confused with Lemon who is a woman from Florida.
2. ↑ despite having been removed as Vice Chancellor by President Tomi the action was considered void due to StarsBees immediately resigning the post meaning there was no transfer to happen so the action was ignored on the server.