Independent Candidates

## **Overview**

Throughout the political history of the Republic of Polynesia (RoP), many politicians or passionate individuals have run for political office as an individual entity or single constituency's representative with varying success per case. This page summarizes their campaigns and careers as Independents.

**Page Last Updated:** February 28, 2021

### **Special Aspects of an Independent Candidate**

Independent Candidates who receive enough votes in a Federal Election to receive a seat in Parliament have the following special aspects:

* Independent Candidates can represent a specific constituency in an election if the local population they want to represent allows this (usually through a poll). Doing so is optional, but is very common and advantageous for an Independent Candidate's political campaign.
* If an Independent Candidate gets enough votes in a Federal Election to receive 1 or more seats in Parliament, they **always** receive just **one** seat in Parliament. This is because by representing either oneself as an individual, or representing a single constituency, only 1 seat is required to do so.
	+ Due to this seats restriction, an Independent Prime Minister will always be in a 1 seat minority government and will always need to rely on coalitions to form a Government.

### **Independent Politicians in Other Levels of Government**

* In the provincial level of Government, many Provinces such as North Sea ban political parties in order to have a Direct Democracy system of local governance.
* In the municipal level of Government, most if not all Municipalities have elections without a seats system and therefore every single Mayoral candidate is considered an Independent.

## **A List of Every Independent Candidate in History**

A detailed history is available below this section.

Tsar\_\_Putin has been the longest-serving Independent MP in the RoP's history, serving a combined 34 days as an Independent across all his terms combined. Enrique is second, serving 23 days in office as an Independent. UNB comes third place, with 12 days as an Independent. Zee, who created the niche of running as an Independent, served 9 days as in Independent Candidate in her political career.

## **Every Independent Candidate's Campaign, Motives, and Accomplishments**

This section will cover every single Independent Candidate's campaign, motives, and accomplishments, from most-to-least recent.

### **Timofey Kovalev's During the 19th CentreCo Government**

**Elected on:** December 3rd 2021

**Constituency:** Port Royal

**Term Served as an Independent for This Term:** 15 Days (December 3 2021 - December 18th 2021)

**Motives and Campaign:**

Timofey Kovalev had previously been a lawyer for hire and defended Slash when he was sued for consistent crimes that had gone unpunished during a crime wave in the Republic of Polynesia in October 2021. Timofeys goals were to create "real jobs" and to also introduce more freedom into ownership of items, rules that were mainly in the hands of the admin team leading to mass distrust of his campaign and his mockery by the media.

Despite representing Port Royal, Timofey did not live in the city and instead lived outside of the city, As well as this his entire voterbase where also not from the city and did not live there.

**Accomplishments and End of his Term**

he didnt do anything

### **Enrique's Term During the 12th LeftCo Government**

**Elected on:** January 12, 2021

**Constituency:** Weschester

**Term Served as an Independent for This Term:** 23 Days (January 12, 2021 - February 3, 2021)

**Motives & Campaign**

Enrique, who unenthusiastically re-entered Polynesian politics after Brit convinced him to, ran as an Independent in order to give a more dedicated Marxist alternative to the Socialist Party of Polynesia. He also planned to act as a faithful ally to his friends Frederick of the Respect party, and Sealand of the Socialist Party.

As a resident of the City of Weschester in North Sea Province, Enrique naturally represented the city as its Independent Candidate. North Sea Province has always been a leftist stronghold region within the RoP, and Enrique did not need to put much effort into a political campaign in order to secure enough votes from his constituents to gain a seat in Parliament. Although Enrique still got last place in the election, his loyal support base in Weschester still made his campaign be considered a success.

**Accomplishments and End of his Term**

Enrique joined the ruling coalition for the 12th LeftCo Government and was given the Minister of Workers role in the Federal Cabinet. He passed a well-received Worker Unions reform law, which better defined the rights and influence of Worker Unions in the RoP. However, the 12th LeftCo Government's time in office would be cut short due to the violent AFAB Riots. While the Prime Minister and Cabinet either ignored the situation, joined in the chaos, or was busy at work finding a solution to the violence, Enrique took the initiative and opened up talks with Tsar, the leader of the AFAB Movement in hopes to end the chaos.

Arguably, Enrique's biggest accomplishment in this term as an Independent were his efforts to restore peace within the RoP. However, these talks also drove him to quit the Polynesian political scene once more. Enrique announced that Tsar's lack of willingness to compromise, coupled with the violence during the AFAB Riots, reminded him about the reasons he left politics before Brit convinced him to come back. When the Interim Jedi Council Government took over the RoP after the 12th LeftCo Government collapsed, Enrique officially stopped participating in Polynesian politics once more.

### **UNB's Term During the 9th LeftCo Government**

**Elected on:** October 3, 2020

**Constituency:** Ashton

**Term Served as an Independent for This Term:** 12 Days (October 3, 2020 - October 14, 2020)

**Motives & Campaign**

UNB Ran as an Independent Candidate in this election due to the increasing stagnation of Polynesia's right-wing, which made his party of the Party for the People and Fatherland (PPF) stagnate on the September 25 2020 Election. He was also busy in real life and didn't want to commit to a dedicated campaign nor worry about actually becoming Prime Minister.

His campaign was uneventful, and purely depended on loyal right-wing voters that remained in the RoP voter base. This brought him enough success to gain enough votes to gain a seat in Parliament.

**Accomplishments and End of his Term**

UNB served this term as a mostly "silent" MP who supported policies proposed by the Contean Block (a party within the ruling coalition), while sometimes criticizing the Labour Party's proposals (the ruling party).

UNB decided to re-create the PPF on October 14, 2020 as he was once again able to be more active in the Polynesian community and strove to take advantage in faltering left-wing popularity in order to get more votes in the next election.

### **Tsar\_\_Putin's Term During the 8th LeftCo Government**

**Elected On:** September 25, 2020

**Constituency:** Nova Contea (The region; a Provincial system was not established at this time)

**Term Served as an Independent for This Term:** 9 Days (September 25, 2020 - October 3, 2020)

**Motives & Campaign**

Tsar, who found himself in a climate where the Polynesian right was in a steep decline and the popularity of the Polynesian Communist Party (PCP) was in a steep rise, decided to run as an Independent Candidate once more in order to represent the interests of his Centrist Contean constituents. He also saw himself as the only politician in the Polynesian political climate who could effectively unite the right and centre to form a united faction with the purpose of curbing the rise of Socialist economic ideals and centralization of the RoP state. With the Labour Party almost certain to win the September 25 election, Tsar hoped his influential position as a Centrist politician within the ruling Coalition would ensure the Labour Party wouldn't pass any Socialist legislation during their term.

Tsar's campaign was extremely dependent on the highly growing Contean voter base. Nova Contea, which would later be considered an official region 3 days after the election with the founding of the city of Tabantha Peaks, was becoming the most populated area in the RoP and its economic influence over the country was growing exponentially. Tsar's gamble paid off, coming in a close second place by just a few votes against Labour. To date, this term is the most successful campaign ever run by an Independent Candidate in history.

**Accomplishments and End of his term**

Tsar's term as an Independent Candidate for Nova Contea was largely productive. Many Micronesia-era laws against crime were reintroduced into Polynesian law and a Supreme Court law was written in cooperation with Brit's Labour Government. Cooperation with the right wing parties in the Opposition was also increased, which stabilized the Polynesian political climate. Tsar also served as an unofficial "acting" Prime Minister, as PM Brit was busy handling more important things in his personal life near the end of the term.

By the end of this term, Polynesia's centrist wings were on the rise in popularity once more. This successful term encouraged Tsar to create the Contean Block political party and pursue Contean interests in Parliament on a larger scale.

### **Tsar\_\_Putin's Term During the 5th RightCo Government**

**Elected On:** September 11, 2020

**Constituency:** Ashton

**Term Served as an Independent for This Term:** 15 Days (September 11, 2020 - October 25, 2020)

**Motives & Campaign**

Tsar reluctantly joined the Polynesian political scene as he had little faith in any of the political parties that were running in the September 11 election. With no official residence anywhere as he was still debating whether or not to re-establish Nova Contea, Tsar decided to represent the Capital of the RoP, Ashton.

Tsar didn't care much about Polynesian politics at this time and only ran to represent his own interests in Parliament. On election day, he asked two of his friends (who were community veterans that would rejoin 2 weeks later) to vote for him. Their votes combined with his own vote for himself gave him a big enough "boost" to gain a seat in Parliament.

**Accomplishments and End of his Term**

Tsar joined the National Conservative Party's ruling coalition, which allowed them to form the first RightCo Government in over half a year. Although the Labour Party offered him a chance to form a Government with them instead, Tsar wanted to give Nethy a shot at redeeming the inactive reputation that RightCo Governments are notorious for. Tsar was given the Minister of State Security role, and used that position to bring back old anti-crime laws from his administration in the Micronesian era to a limited extent. He introduced the concept of "law spam day" programs, which were days that 5 or more laws would be passed in quick succession within a few hours. This program was expanded and used several times for the next month and a half during future Governments he was a part of, which brought back many effective economic and legal laws from Tsar's own past administrations in the Micronesian era.

Although Nethy promised Tsar lots of activity and creative economic ideas if Tsar helped him form the 5th RightCo Government, none of these promises were fulfilled. Just like its expected reputation, the 5th RightCo Government was inactive. The Labour Party asked Tsar if it was time for a Vote of no Confidence (VONC) against the Government to force a snap election just days after the term started, which Tsar answered "no" to several times. However, with just a week and a half to go in the term and still no action by anyone but himself, Tsar gave Labour the green light. Although Tsar still voted against the VONC, it still passed with flying colors and a snap election was held on September 25, 2020. His motives for allowing the Opposition to make such a vote while still voting against it were that he lost faith in the Government but still held a little bit of hope that perhaps Prime Minister Nethy would get his act together and stop the vote to actually get back to work.

### **Tsar\_\_Putin's Term During the 1st CentreCo Government**

**Elected on:** September 24, 2019

**Constituency:** Jam County

**Term Served as an Independent for This Term:** 13 Days (September 24, 2019 - October 3, 2019)

**Motives & Campaign**

Tsar left the Social Democratic Party (SDP) and ran as an Independent due to losing faith in ex-PM Hamburg's ability to give strong leadership in the Polynesian political scene. His goals as an Independent were to represent his own interests in Parliament in order to gain some federal support in the construction of the growing region of Jam County.

Tsar's campaign was non-existent in this election, however his background as the creator of many early State Security reforms gave him some small renown amongst centre-left voters. With 4 votes from strangers and a 5th from himself, Tsar was able to muster just barely enough votes to secure a seat in Parliament.

**Accomplishments and End of his Term**

This term was quite uneventful. Tsar failed to even ask for federal help to develop Jam County, and the only effect he had in the Polynesian nation was fixing Parliament Street after the 3rd Great Grief of the Capital. The neglect of Jam County by Tsar would become a common theme throughout its existence until Doomsday, which gave this era of time in Jam County's history the title of "The Period of Neglect". He also opened up his company, Broke Building LLC., which was a construction company based on another server called Views SMP.

The end of this Independent Candidate term was nothing out of the ordinary. On October 3 2019, the scheduled 4th RoP Federal Election was held; ending the term that came before it.

### **Zee's Term During the 1st LeftCo Government**

**Elected on:** September 16, 2019

**Constituency:** Scarlithia

**Term Served as an Independent for This Term:** 9 Days (September 16, 2019 - September 24, 2019)

**Motives & Campaign**

Zee, encouraged by Sealand and the general growth of public political interest at the time, decided to run as an Independent Candidate to help better represent her constituents in the new region of Scarlithia.

Zee appealed to no specific political wing of her campaign and instead focused on her Scarlithia voter base. At this time, many RoP citizens were alienated with the 1st RightCo Government following the devastating 1st Great Grief of the Capital. Zee's unique apolitical platform attracted many RoP citizens to vote for her instead. This unexpected boost in popularity ended up giving Zee 77 votes, which mean that she won the election. However, the SDP and Liberal Party formed an alliance, making them the combined winners of the election instead of her. To date, no Independent has received as many votes as Zee.

**Accomplishments and End of her Term**

Even just running as an Independent Candidate gave Zee some renown, as she created and formalized the idea of an Independent Candidate in the Polynesian political scene. Although she's the most well-supported Independent Candidate in history, her failure to form a government and subsequent failure to achieve much in her term nor securing of any meaningful government positions made her success as an Independent short-lived.

Zee's term as an Independent Candidate for Scarlithia ended faster than planned, as Prime Minister Hamburg called a snap election on September 25, 2019 following the 2nd Great Grief of the Capital. Zee formed the Scarlithian Party during that election, experiencing mild success.