2025 Libirachi National Congress Election

The **2025 Libirachi National Congress Election** was held on March 8, 2025 across the Libirachi Empire to elect congresspeople to the 28th National Congress, in order for the congress to be able to elect a president on March 13th 2025. The elections were the first held under the 2025 constitution of the Fox Dynasty.

Following the 2019 coup d'état which established the Fox Dynasty on November 11, 2019, the Libirachi state experienced a period of instability as the country was plunged into the Has Wars from 2020-22, followed by a civil war in 2022-24 as former Libirachi politician Almac Docu led an alliance of countries and proto-states against the Fox Dynasty. However, the Fox regime succeeded in defeating both Bovido Has in 2022 and then the Confederacy of Independent Nations in 2024, and was able to tighten its control over the Libirachi state. Following her coronation on November 11, 2024, Empress Penny Fox began to implement a series of political reforms to allow the façade of democracy within the country and passed a constitutional amendment to make the president of the Libirachi Empire elected by the Libirachi National Congress for five year terms. In reward for their role during the Libirachi Civil War, the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order were permitted to form a political wing in November 2024, and contested the 2025 election for the first time.

Between December 1, 2024 and March 1, 2025, every province held elections across each tier of local government, which each tier electing members to the level above themselves. On March 8, 2025, all of the fifteen sector congresses nominated approximately 200 representatives to multi-member constituencies to serve 5 year terms in the national level Libirachi National Congress. Out of the 2980 seats, 581 were reserved for military officials, giving them a significant position of influence within the legislature. Upon the conclusion of elections, the Libirachi Revolutionary Party remained as the largest party but lost 99 seats to the new COMPNOR Political Bureau, which became the third largest group within the national congress. All other political parties retained their seat counts, marking the second consecutive election with no seat change for the Libirachi Progressive Party and Libirachi Socialist Party. As the second largest group within the "National Front" of government backing parties, COMPNOR Political Bureau leader Lloyd George became increasingly influential within the Libirachi National Congress and frequently joined with supreme commander Chen Bingde of the Imperial Army to campaign for an expansion of surveillance and military spending.

With no major opposition, Li Zhanshu was re-elected to a 5 year term as Chairman of the National Congress during the 28th National Congress' first session on March 10, 2025. Following the election of Li as chairman, and the selection of a legislative executive of party whips and spokespeople, the congress held its first presidential election under the new 2025 constitution on March 13, 2025, which saw Damien Salamander re-elected with a significant majority at the head of a single party government.

The subsequent 28th National Congress coincided with a period of significant internal upheaval within Libirachi politics. Following grand general Guo Tijjan's attempt to force Empress Fox to abdicate in August 2026, the power of the Imperial Army Political Corps within the National Congress was curbed - dozens of senior military congressmen were arrested by the state and replaced by COMPNOR controlled figures within the armed forces, whilst COMPNOR and the government were given the power to appoint and reject armed forces candidates for congress in preparation for the 2030 elections. The congress was also notable for passing the Same-Sex Relations Act of 2026 to legalise all LGBT relationships and marriages after Empress Penny Fox's bisexuality became public knowledge following the failed Wahngso Coup. However, a COMPNOR-led attempt to reduce the army's role in congress was voted down by the Salamander administration in April 2027. With the onset of the 2027 Global Banking Crisis, the 28th National Congress passed a major financial package to stabilise the Libirachi economy following negotiations between senior congresspeople and finance secretary Li Keqiang. During the Liberation of Loxenia, the 28th National Congress held numerous committee meetings to interrogate military figures and hold senior generals accountable for the first time. Despite being largely unanimous in support for the government, the 28th Congress was notably divided over the introduction of the New-Think ideology by the Empress Fox, which resulted in a growing anti-monarchist faction within the Revolutionary party.