Independents

## Independents of Parliament

One of the less popular methods to get into parliament is by running as an independent and appearing on the ballot all by yourself alongside parties. Throughout Adoria's history **122** distinct individuals have managed to get into parliament by themselves. You cannot be in a party when running as an independent. MPs who leave their party but are allowed to keep their MP seat are not counted as their seat is technically a Party Seat and not their own seat. The 7th Election was the first election that independents could run in and the 21st election they weren't allowed to run do to the imperial constitution but were once again allowed to run in the 22nd election and onwards. The 12th election is the only election where no Independent ran despite being allowed to; additionally Independent(s) ran for the 11th, 16th, and 102nd elections but lost. Of the 104 elections 93 have yielded at least 1 Independent MP.

Last Updated: 21 August 2023

## Firsts

By act of the 6th Parliament (Circa. September 2019) independents would be allowed to run for Parliament on their own and get a seat if they recieve 1/100th of the vote. In the 7th general election, Calam!ty would be the only Independent Campaign and would become the first independent-elected MP in parliament. After just one term Calam!ty would choose not to run as an Independent in the 8th election, Janlul would run and become the 2nd Independent-elected MP, running again in the 9th election he would then be the 1st Two-term Independent-elected MP. During the 14th election, Janlul snagged a 3rd term nonconsecutively.

Running in the 18th, 19th and 20th elections King Adoria became the first MP to serve 3 consecutive terms. However following the collapse of the 2nd Republic Independents were not allowed to run in the 21st election, KA would snag a 4th term in the following 22nd election. With this Janlul's count of 3 terms would officially be surpassed. KA would continue to stack up more terms and would remain at the top until the 39th election when Alexauditoreda would eventually tie him as the first Two 10-term Independents and surpassing KA by a single day on December 13th, 2020 (112-111). With the Matthewist Restoration, KA would again take the lead on December 20th, 2020 with 114 days. Sitting at the top, King Adoria would accumulate **15** terms. However he would not be inaugurated for a 15th term as he was instead re-inaugurated to Vice President and did not serve out his 15th term.

King Adoria would keep his long-held title for nearly 11-months until November 11th, 2021 when Yannick officially surpassed King Adoria's 178-day streak. To this day Yannick would keep this title. With the 64th election, Yannick would win his **16**th term officially dethroning KA in both mandate count and day count. Of these countless terms Yannick would also hold the most consecutive at 12.

## Independents in Government

Recieving appointments and government positions have historically been difficult for independents in Adoria. So far **9** presidential elections were won by an Independent, **4** governments were formed under an Independent Prime Minister, **2** caretaker governments helmed by Independent Prime Ministers, **several** independent ministers and **1** independent secretary.

### First Independent President

Not only was Arjona the first elected president he was also the First Independent President. His successor, Acrid would also get elected as an independent however Acrid joined United Right during his Presidency.

### First Independent Minister

Calam!ty who was also the 1st independent MP became the First independent to serve as a Minister. Serving as Interior Minister between September 30th, 2019 to October 14th, 2019. However he would join Democratic Left before his time was over.

### First Independent Secretary

PatBruh served as The Secretary of Culture and Media between 19th of January to 2nd of February. It was later discovered that PatBruh was actually Lobster who had extremely close ties to The Conservatives.

### First Independent Prime Minister

On July 14th, The Chad party was dissolved their MPs kept their seats. Due to some former Chad members joining parties that didn't support the government this lead to a minority government. The next day United Workers Front announced that they had an internal vote and decided to not join the Coalition. Prime Minister Joe was inactive for two days at this point and so the government started collapsing. The PM then came back online and announced that he was removing Mikoyan from DPM since he had joined the UWF who did not support the government. HeyIt’sJoe™ then resigned making Duje The Prime Minister. Eighty-two minutes lafter Duje resigned and appointed Mad as the new Prime Minister, this made Mad the first Independent Prime Minister Adoria had seen.

## Independents in The Courts

Though Justices and Judges are not required to be independent some chosen to do so. BluXtreme who had previously been Chief Justice as a Libertarian became Chief Justice again on March 1st, 2020, to April 5th, 2020 serving as The sole independent Chief Justice Adoria ever had until 14 months later on, June 15th, 2021, Chief Justice Cameron left the Conservative Party officially making him the 2nd Independent Chief Justice.

CJ David's Successor, Gvizdod, would leave the the Social Democratic Party on August 30th, 2021, making him the 3rd Independent Chief Justice. On December 3rd, 2021, the Nonpartisan Act would be passed requiring Chief Justices to be Independents. With this, all subsequent CJs have been independent; this would last for 7 months until the Sixth Federal Republic Constitution was adopted on July 5th 2022. Following this CJ Meow Zedong would join the SDP later that day but would then resign the next day after less than 24 hours. CJs would continue to serve as independents by choice until April 18th 2023 when the *Restoration of the Nonpartisan Act* was passed making CJs have to be independent again.

Independent Head Judges would not be as rare with Hannu, the 2nd Head Judge, choosing to serve it out as an Independent. He would later be joined by Alexauditoreda, King Adoria, Nicholas Fofi, Soy Trap, Daniel, Yannick, Arjona, James Greene, Reeves, and Meow Zedong who would all choose to also serve time as Head Judges as Independents. The HJ position currently no longer exists.