2009 Chawosaurian direct election

The **2009 Chawosaurian direct election** was a proposed direct election intended to replace the severely aging Supreme Leader Timothy Max Roosevelt. Had it been agreed to by the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace, it would've been held on December 31, 2009, alongside the 2009 Chawosaurian legislative elections.

An election order was issued in the late 2000s and the proposed election itself was also debated on whether it should be held. But those who were against holding the election pointed to the amount of cost the government would have to pay at a time when the Chawosaurian Imperial Government was somewhat effected by the Great Recession, and support for holding an election have drained. The motion to hold an election was rejected and the whole issue was put to bed, at least until the Chawallian Communist Party massively lost so many seats to the Social Democrats that they nearly lost control of the Chawopolis Palace in the 2009 legislative elections. The 2009 results caused regret from both the Communist Party and the Social Democrats, the Communists believed that had the 2009 direct election had been called, a fresh Communist candidate like possibly ex-Prime Minister Shang Jong Parker, who was 49-years-old at the time, probably would've provided coattails like President Obama did with his party in the Americans elections held the prior year since Shang Jong Parker and Barack Obama are both popular and young leaders. The Social Democrats believed that had the 2009 direct election had been held, a Social Democratic candidate may would have delivered a Social Democratic mandate, which would mean control of both the Monarchy and the Chawopolis Palace while the Communists will still control the Premiership through Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Boleslaus IX.

What killed hopes of a 2009 direct election was that there was popular opposition. Polls showed a significant opposition to a direct election in 2009 amongst the Chawosaurian public, there were two reasons why: the first reason is that Chawosaurians would be asked by a direct election to replace a popular Supreme Leader, and two: a 2009 direct election would escalate the roll of politics in Chawosauria in an already political year in Chawosauria, and Chawosaurians thought that was too much to bare. In fact, the actually held 2009 Chawosaurian legislative elections produced an abnormally low voter turnout, showing how tired Chawosaurians were of politics at that time period.

When Supreme Leader Timothy Max Roosevelt died in 2011, regret for not holding a direct election in 2009 swelled because the death of a Chawosaurian head of state is known to cause societal problems and disruptions. The Chawosaurian Revolution escalated and dominated the rest of the 2010s decade for Chawosauria, Supreme Leaders after Timothy Max Roosevelt and before Shang Jong Parker have struggled to remain in office, and Prime Minister Boleslaus had to do all the work of executive government. The Chawosaurian Civil War broke out in 2016 and ended in 2019 alongside the Chawosaurian Revolution.

The 2019 Chawosaurian direct election was actually held and was massively won by former Prime Minister Shang Jong Parker in a landslide against incumbent Supreme Leader Ekewaka Mikala Kalawai'a.

## Background, History, and Debate

With the 2009 Chawosaurian legislative elections fastly approaching, Supreme Leader Timothy Max Roosevelt was getting older and less healthier throughout the late 2000s. By 2007, Timothy Max Roosevelt will reach the age of 100. Timothy Max Roosevelt was suffering from cardiovascular disease due to excessive smoking and age-related complications. Because of these complications, the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace began to grow concerned and like with Emperor Santiago in the early 1970s, leading up to the 1975 Chawosaurian direct election, which Timothy Max Roosevelt won by a blinding landslide to become Supreme Leader himself, there were now calls for a Chawosaurian direct election to be held during the 2009 legislative elections now that Timothy Max Roosevelt is himself getting seriously old and ill.

The Chawallian Communist Party had control of the Monarchy, the Prime Ministership, and a massive supermajority in the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace since 1980. The opposition party is the Social Democratic Labour Party being led by Leader of the Opposition George Windsor. The Prime Minister at this time was Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII, a southerner from Mississippi.

The Chawosaurian Imperial Government began to debate a possible 2009 direct election as early as 2007 or far earlier as the aftermath of the 2005 Chawosaurian legislative elections, where the Communist Party just won a glaringly huge supermajority in the legislative branch with 532-68 out of all 600 seats that were contested that year. There were divisions from both parties, the Communists and the Social Democrats, on whether a direct election should be held. The argument for holding an election said Timothy Max Roosevelt was becoming too old to serve; while those who argue against it say that it would not be good for the government's purse because of the looming recession and mass government spending into the War on Terror from around the world, especially by the United States , which impacts the wallets of the Chawosaurian Imperial Government pretty considerably.

When the Great Recession spurred and the War on Terror becoming less manageable, the argument against holding an election begins to prevail in the Chawopolis Palace. Pro-electionists were growing upset by this loss in support but they persisted in their pushing for a resolution to order an election, but the measure was defeated in a vote of 7-593.

Despite no direct election in 2009, legislative elections were still held and the Communist Party lost 215 seats to the Social Democrats, costing the Communists their supermajority, but despite their losses, the Communist Party held control of the Chawopolis Palace by a weak majority of 317-283. The Social Democrats' 283 seat minority helped them be able to filibuster communist partisan pieces of legislation and force a bipartisan style of governing.

## Eligibility and Process

Because this election didn't happen, the process of the election is up for speculation on how the election would've been conducted, who would've been eligible to run and vote, and how the voting would've worked. Chawosaurian direct elections were the "wild west" when it comes to organizing and conducting them. There are a variety of electoral systems in the world; the United States elects its President through the electoral college, in which each political party can nominate slates of electors of which state to vote for their nominee if their slates wins the popular vote within that state, however, even if a presidential candidate has won the necessary majority of the electoral college nationwide, there is a possibility that the national popular vote can skew in favor of the losing presidential nominee, although it is really rare for a U.S. President to be elected by the electoral college despite losing the popular vote, it has still happened before, just five times in U.S. history: 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016, and it nearly or could've happened in 2004, 1968, 1960, 1884, 1880, and 1844.

## Communist Party

The Communist Party field would be small considering they are the incumbent party.

Timothy Max Roosevelt II, incumbent President of the Socialist Republic of North AmericaShang Jong Parker, former Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria from 1990 to 1999Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII, incumbent Prime Minister of the Empire of ChawosauriaLeonid Ivan Bzovsky former Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria from 1980 to 1989Leonid Ilyich Belinsky, MPThe Communist Party was speculating candidates to run for the nomination for Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria.

## Social Democrats

The Social Democrats would have a larger crowd of candidates who want the nomination for Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria.

George Windsor, incumbent Leader of the OppositionSydney Lucas Webster, incumbent Member of ParliamentJack Leo Wallace IIIGarfield Lionel Belshaw III, Imperial Senator from the Senate District of CanadaLeolin Iolo Owsley X, World War II veteranThe Social Democrats attempted to recruit Garfield Lucas Webster II, Samantha Montgomery, Johnathan Saint Nicholas Montgomery VII, and Jonathan Deaglan Bismarck, but all turned them down.

## See also

* 1915 Chawosaurian legislative elections