9th Chawopolis Palace

The Chawopolis Palace housed Palace 9.

## Partisan Standing

The seats in red are the Communists, the British parties unified behind opposition to Communist Party rule into the Coalition Party and they ruled the seats in black.

## Election

### Election

1945

The **9th Chawopolis Palace** (or **Palace 9**) was a meeting of the legislative branch of the Chawosaurian Imperial Government that lasted from January 1, 1946, to December 31, 1949. The Coalition Party had control of the Monarchy and the Premiership, however, the Chawallian Communist Party controlled a landslide majority in the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace. This is the first government elected in the Cold War and the first Communist Party-led government in Chawosaurian history. The Coalition Party was formed to counteract against the Chawallian Communist Party's newly majority in the Chawopolis Palace.

The 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections started the era of Communist Party control of the Chawopolis Palace from 1946 to 2017 and again since 2020. Palace 9 took place during the first stage of the Cold War. The United States and the Soviet Union, after their alliance have defeated the Nazis and forced the Japanese to surrender, have drifted apart against each other as post-WWII superpowers over ideological grounds, competing over who gets to rule this new world order. On the domestic front, Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII met a strange new world for him, having being the first Prime Minister to outright lose control of the Chawopolis Palace, Bismarck and his right-wing administration began to reel from the traumatizing 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections and tried to turn things around. The 1945 elections have put Bismarck's aspiration to succeed Emperor Santiago as Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria was now in doubt and would go on to never happen. Timothy Max Roosevelt, the man who beat Bismarck in the 1945 elections, would be the one to replace Emperor Santiago instead. Bismarck met a liberal rebellion from the new anti-communist minority caucus in the Chawopolis Palace as they feel the most humiliation from the Communist Party victory, and the liberals declared that they will replace the conservative Bismarck as Prime Minister in the upcoming 1949 Chawosaurian Prime Ministerial election with both Lochlainn Wilkie MacKenzie VI and Garfield Lucas Webster II being liberal frontrunners to replace Bismarck.

Despite tensions between Bismarck and the anti-communists, they formed together the Coalition Party to take advantage what is called a vetocratic minority, where a minority party has enough seats in a minority position to filibuster the majority party's rule and prevent them from influencing or supporting the Supreme Leader. The Coalition Party had a vetocratic minority, they had 242 seats, just two seats over the filibusterable mark (being 240 until 2017).

## Background

For the first time in Chawosaurian history, parliament was controlled by a communist party, at the time it was extremely unprecedented and very unheard of.

Conservatives and right-wingers were extremely embarrassed to have Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII as their leader due to him failing miserably to secure the Chawopolis Palace from falling into left-wing Communist hands, and as a result, trust issues begin to arose between Bismarck and the political right. Chawosaurian right-wingers begin to search for a more younger and charismatic leader who can take back the Chawopolis Palace from the Communist Party in the upcoming 1949 Chawosaurian legislative elections. But from Bismarck's own left, progressives in the anti-communist side of the new political aisle between Communist and Capitalist begin to blame Bismarck for being too right-wing for an increasingly left-wing Chawosauria, branding him as too out of touch from everyday Chawosaurians, resulting in them hunting for a liberal alternative to Bismarck and lead the anti-communists to victory in 1949. A poll taken in 1947 showed Chawosaurians widely see Bismarck as "too right wing for us" and this gave Bismarck's liberal rebels credibility.

Despite Bismarck's founding of the Coalition Party in 1947 to counter the Communist Party majority, the party was sharply divided between liberals and conservatives who both hate Bismarck so much because he is the one who failed to keep the Communists from winning the majority they have now in the 1945 elections. Conservatives are extremely disillusioned with him and liberals believe Bismarck's style of politics is getting too old and that a liberal generation of leadership should now take over and challenge the Communist Party. Bismarck's attempts to lead a divided and hostile minority caucus was a headache.

Bismarck refused to shift to the left mostly because it would alienate the business circles of Chawosaurian society who'd rather would right-wing governing than left-wing governing. The right favors business interests while the left favors the interests of the working class such as the right to unionize and better and safer working conditions. Bismarck refused to support unions and he threatened to block legislation that improve the lives of working class Chawosaurians, further pissing off the progressive wing of his minority caucus, resulting in the progressive rallying of Lochlainn Wilkie MacKenzie VI to replace him as both minority leader and potentially Prime Minister.

## Leadership

Leadership of the 9th Chawopolis Palace
    Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII | Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria | January 1, 1940
    Timothy Max Roosevelt | Speaker of the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace | January 1, 1946
 Leader

## Major Events

* **January 1, 1946**: The Chawallian Communist Party gains control of the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace, starting 71-years of Communist Party dominance over the Chawopolis Palace and the ongoing era of Communist Party dominance over Chawosaurian politics.
* **August 31, 1947**: The Coalition Party was established to counter Communist Party rule.
* **November 29, 1947**: The United Nations founded Israel and Palestine as independent nations.
* **May 14, 1948**: Israel becomes a nation.
* **June 24, 1948 - May 12, 1949**: The Berlin Blockade.
* **July 1, 1949 - October 31, 1949**: 1949 Chawosaurian Prime Ministerial election.
* **December 31, 1949**: 1949 Chawosaurian legislative elections and the end of Palace 9.

## Major Legislation

Due to partisan tensions between the Communist Party and the Coalition Party, no legislation was ever passed.

## See also

* 8th Chawopolis Palace
* 11th Chawopolis Palace