2020 Original Party executorial primaries

The **2020 Original Party executorial primaries** were a series of elections that took place from March 21 to April 26, 2020. The party nominated incumbent Executor Zap in a landslide. In total, 13 candidates declared their campaigns to win the Original Party nomination. However, only 4 received any votes.

## Original Party Debates

### First Debate

The First Original Party Presidential Debate took place on April 13, 2020. The debate was hosted by DjNinja22 on Discord. Governor 24DegreeZ began by criticizing the Original Party base of support claiming it to be biased support for President Zap.

Iudez criticized the President's lack of direct war experience. The President responded by saying that "direct experience did not matter as long as the right people were in the right position for the right job." He also stated that he "personally knew the largest amount of people compared to the rest of the candidates due to his seven years of presidency."

Co-Governor Litzor stated that the entire history of the NUA was "seven years of failure." The President responded by saying "the whole seven years had not been a failure and that the past year and a half had been a miscalculation of Underground Expansion which could be easily fixed if re-elected."

Governor 24DegreeZ had claimed the President to have cheated Gubernatorial elections in the past to his own advantage. The President responded by saying: "The same man who cheated on his girlfriend is calling me a cheater." At one point, the President also took a blow at 24DegreeZ by claiming "he would get fewer votes than his IQ," and followed the statement up by saying: "and that says a lot."

The executor took multiple verbal jabs at Governor 24DegreeZ which caused him to leave mid-debate. This caused a lot of strong backlash within 24DegreeZ's base and he subsequently lost a large portion of his support.

### Second Debate

The Second Original Party Presidential Debate took place on April 16, 2020. The debate was hosted in Ninzard Realm by DjNinja22 on Discord. Only three OP candidates were invited: Zap, Iudez, and Litzor.

The debate began with the question: "How do you plan to win the election in August 2020?"

Zap asserted that the question was vague and followed it up by saying: "You just have to have a valid argument to win the election. You have to be ready to face off against people like Julie (Czulia). It will be challenging, but I know for a fact that we will win."

Iudez responded by saying that the  Celestials and the  Reformationists were going to come after the  Originals and that the party needed to be prepared to defend against their blows. Then, he followed up the statement by criticizing Zap: "The problem we currently face is that the front-runner is  Sam. He's already proven to be incompetent in all forms of leadership. Everybody, please take a look around you.  This server IS DEAD. Does this look like a server which is owned by a good leader? A leader that cares for the community? A leader that wants to progress? How can we trust an incompetent leader to destroy the corrupted factions of this community? Unlike Sam, I have prepared many different scenarios of wiping the Underground clean. Sam is a pathetic excuse for a leader."

Litzor responded by asserting his agreement with Iudez's statement: "I agree with Iudez on this position. Sam is incompetent, inept to control our operations in Underground destruction. This server does not seem like a server owned by a skilled leader. Instead, it is a dead pile of shit. Someone like him will without a doubt lose against the likes of Czulia. He stands no chance."

Zap then responded to the attacks by stating the goal of the server was to have fun and not to "country roleplay." He then defended his own leadership: "You cannot base my competency off of this one discord server. You also have not attacked our  capital administrative skill because you know we have been successful. Up until today, we have kept the community stable regardless of having such a chaotic base of people."

Iudez fought against his defense and stated: "No. This server is dead because of the lack of skill. It isn't because of your excessive bullshit insult called "country roleplay." It just isn't the case. If you had the ability, why would you keep the server in such a state? Such would imply that you are lazy. Lazy will not do in  August 2020. This is a pathetic excuse for a district. It is an embarrassment and a key reflection to your leadership. You may not be our leader for the OP."

Zap then responded by saying: "I get your point  Isaac, but again, this server and destroying the underground don't have anything to do with one another. You are missing what's good here because you only look at the server in the amount of activity, amount of members, maturity of administration, etc, but you don't see the point of having a community like this Isaac. It's all for fun. This... all for fun my guy."

Zap then mentioned the purpose of why he had founded the administration on November 4, 2012, stating he had "created the community in the desire to have fun." Then he criticized the Underground dominance, which he asserted was an obstacle towards the true meaning behind the community's original purpose.

Near the end of the debate, Zap explained that the goal towards bringing back the very first desires of founding the community was the reason why the OP was called the "Original Party."

On April 19, 2020, 24DegreeZ suspended his presidential campaign and endorsed Zap while apologizing to him.

## Aftermath

Litzor left the NUA. Iudez was banned for attempt of election fraud.