2022 Chawosaurian Prime Ministerial election

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 **Prime Minister before election**Jezebel Isela BoleslausChawosaurian Communist Party

The **2022 Chawosaurian Prime Ministerial election** was held on Friday, April 1, 2022, to elect the Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria to replace Prime Minister Jezebel Isela Boleslaus as she departs on June 30, 2022. This Prime Ministerial election is different compared to the previous two years prior because Shang Jong Parker, Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria, will not nominate a successor, so therefore the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace will have an independent say in determining the next Prime Minister. Prime Minister Boleslaus tendered her resignation because of the Parker administration's handling of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which was escalated by an unprecedented in 21st century terms, full scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, so unprecedented of an invasion in the culture of the 21st century that the Parker administration dismissed earlier warnings of a Russian invasion of Ukraine as "cold war fearmongering", contributing to their unpreparedness to evacuate Chawosaurian civilians from Ukraine. Sydney Lucas Webster enjoyed full party unity as the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party unanimously nominates him, but the Chawosaurian Communist Party suffered from bitter interparty divisions over the Chawo-Uralic War, the Ural Wall, Russia, an embarrassing loss of the Senate District of East Asia, and a revolt from Chawosaurian members of the Japanese Communist Party as a result of disagreement between them and the party establishment over the Nanjing Massacre and China's role in the COVID-19 pandemic, both issues given the party boss Shang Jong Parker was a native from China; also in the Communist Party, there was uncertainty on whether Speaker James Boleslaus was willing to run to replace his sister but issues within the Boleslaus family over allegations of nepotism due to fatigue with the family having control of the Chawosaurian Communist Party since 2009 and the family itself dealing with an Eastern European heritage being staked in the heart by a major war between Russia and Ukraine. Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII, former Prime Minister, won a contentious fight for the Chawosaurian Communist Party nomination for Prime Minister, leaving the race between MacAlasdair and Webster, with MacAlasdair with 720 votes total, having the upper hand over Webster. MacAlasdair went on to win the final vote to become Prime Minister due to a very strong Communist Party supermajority, which was so strong MacAlasdair could effort to lose 200 defectors and still win by a wide margin.

Despite these interparty divisions, still benefiting from a very massive Communist Party supermajority, on April 1st, 2022, former Prime Minister Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII was easily elected to a non-consecutive second term as Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria, winning a filibuster-proof landslide victory in the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace by a landslide margin of 723-277 out of all 1,000 members of the Chawopolis Palace, and denying Opposition Leader and minority leader Sydney Lucas Webster his place in history as the first Prime Minister since the Great Depression to be part of the American two-party system, the first Democrat in Chawosaurian history to ever serve as Prime Minister of Chawosauria, and the first Webster since his grandfather left office 103 years ago to serve as Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria. MacAlasdair suffered a defection from his Chawosaurian Communist Party of 190 of his caucus of 913 to vote against him, while Webster suffered 8 defections, but MacAlasdair gained 3 votes from his nomination, and Webster slide by 8 votes from his nomination which was solidly unified but at the end nobody wants to vote for a major prime ministerial candidate with no chance.

The Chawosaurian Communist Party at the start of this process was vulnerable to potentially losing the Prime Ministership to Sydney Lucas Webster due to dealing with two distracting insurgent challengers in Genghis Dansranbilegiin and Nariaki Okada, and a surging strongman in Francisco Del Rosario to use this process as an opportunity to gain power to outweigh Parker as part of efforts to overthrow him, but the Chawosaurian Communist Party did damage control, former Prime Minister Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII announced on March 15th that he want to be Prime Minister again, which given his age at 72 which is the age that Jonathan Drasko Bismarck XXV retired and Jonathan Sarban Boleslaus VII died of leukemia all in 2022, and the rising perception that being in your 70s is to old despite the Chawosaurian life expectancy is over 100-years, there was not anyone taking MacAlasdair serious, but MacAlasdair's level of respect was never underestimated and could still be elected as a result. MacAlasdair and crossover support from communists for Webster, both advanced into the final round, and MacAlasdair won the final round and plus the convention, but Webster was previously nominated by the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party, so both MacAlasdair and Webster will face each other again to be elected Prime Minister.

This Prime Ministerial election was more contentious than the previous in 2020. This election exposed a rift in the Chawosaurian left, and a bad look for the Chawosaurian left-wing going into the 2024 Chawosaurian elections as less unified they are, the more less capable they looked at governing Chawosauria, especially through serious crises. The Chawosaurian members of the Mongolian People's Party, the Japanese Communist Party, and the Druk Nyamnup Tshogpa, all declared independence from the Chawosaurian Communist Party and the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party, on April 6, 2022. On April 7, 2022, the Party of the European Left, led by the French Communist Party, have threatened to resign from the Chawosaurian Communist Party as well.

The main reason Webster failed in this bid to become Prime Minister was because the Communist Party had such a massive supermajority in its hands and numerically insufficient Communist Party divisions, making it impossible for the Social Democrats to ever gain control of the Premiership through traditional means. Webster now would have to win the Premiership by winning firm and majority control of the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace and win the national popular vote by a solid majority in the 2024 Chawosaurian legislative elections, however, Webster's chances are considerably low and he is widely expectedly to lose by a wide margin because this is the Communist Party's first term as majority government and in the Chawosaurian world, defeating a first time majority government is so incredibly hard that it's even nearly impossible given it only happened once but that was only because it was a really fractured multi-party coalition supermajority government, another reason Webster's chances are low is because the Communist Party also holds a supermajority government and supermajority governments are even harder to beat even if Webster does gain seats, not to mention the 2024 elections are Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker's first midterm election, and the Supreme Leader constantly wins his/her first midterm election often by a landslide, making Webster's quest to topple the Communist supermajority even harder.

In the United States House of Representatives after the Republicans won control of that chamber but only barely than expected in the 2022 midterm elections, the Republicans faced a similar battle to elect the Speaker of the House with, unlike the Communist Party, not fortunate with a strong majority to maybe be able to even elect one besides the incumbent congressional leader Kevin McCarthy of the Republicans. This is mentioned because Chawosaurian political scientists have made analogies from this election for Prime Minister to the election for U.S. Speaker. Like MacAlasdair, McCarthy was eventually elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, however unlike MacAlasdair due to having a strong supermajority that can easily overcome even as high as 200 holdouts, it took McCarthy 15 ballots to grab the Speaker's gavel after having a protracted fight with 20 rebels who demanded a far-right approach to governing by a Republican House in exchange for a Speaker, though he flipped 14 of them, 6 was still effective at blocking him from becoming Speaker because of a narrow Republican majority of 222 members compared to the 213 Democrats who were never gonna vote for McCarthy anyway though the Speaker election was so bad for Republicans that there was talk of a potential coalition government between Democrats and establishment Republicans to elect a Speaker and overcome the far-right squad, which may have motivated them to vote present to help McCarthy cling the Speakership while not voting for him to keep the Democrats from holding negotiating power over a Speaker election and help the Republican establishment run them over at every turn.

## Background

The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 have led to the brutal collapse of Boleslaus dominance of Communist Party politics of Chawosauria that has existed since 2009. The Boleslaus family are of Eastern European blood, their ancestry and bloodline tracing back to the present day Czech Republic, and it is rumored that the Boleslaus family may have been descendants of the House of Přemyslid, though no blood DNA proves such, their surname are originated from their monarchs.

In 2009, when it was time to prepare for Prime Minister Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII's prime ministerial term to expire on December 31, 2009 after he had been in office since January 1, 2000, MacAlasdair made an unsuccessful bid to achieve a second term, but an increasingly demented and aging Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria at the time, Timothy Max Roosevelt, was so badly demented to remember a 1999 promise that MacAlasdair would be a two-term Prime Minister, so a little known MP in Jonathan Dragan Boleslaus IX, whose daughter and future Prime Minister Jezebel Isela Boleslaus was 19-years-old at the time, was nominated Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria. Boleslaus was successfully confirmed by the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace to succeed MacAlasdair. But in the 2009 Chawosaurian legislative elections under Boleslaus' parliamentary leadership over the then Chawallian Communist Party, the Communist Party suffered a scathing loss of 215 seats plus the supermajority that they have had since 1979, but retained a weak majority with the sole minority party, the Social Democratic Labour Party of Chawosauria, wielded a highly effective veto power over the Communist Party's slender majority.

## Process

With accordance to the 2022 Prime Ministerial Succession Order, the election is to take place on Friday, April 1st, 2022, to elect the Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria to replace Jezebel Isela Boleslaus. Must be elected by the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace, of the 1,000 seats total, 501 votes are required for election. What's complicating that process is the division of the Chawosaurian Communist Party in terms of interparty tensions and the uncertainty of James Boleslaus' stance on running for Prime Minister, leaving to some to speculate that Sydney Lucas Webster, Leader of the Opposition, leader of the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party, and minority leader of the Chawopolis Palace, to become Prime Minister himself by default, however, with such a massive Communist Party supermajority, that is an unlikely scenario unless Webster wins crossover support which had happened before for other Prime Ministers such as for example, 1949. Despite, in a scenario of vote splitting in the Communist Party, that communists vote for a variety of candidates, it is possible than Webster becoming Prime Minister that one of these candidates could win 501 votes by default considering how massive the Communist Party supermajority is, but those votes would be called "token votes" and they would not matter unless a candidate is self-declared.

## Nominations

The parties had to hold conventions to nominate their candidate to compete for Prime Minister.

### Chawosaurian Communist Party

The Chawosaurian Communist Party was intensely divided, seeing the Parker administration plunging Chawosauria into a quagmire conflict that is the Chawo-Uralic War in an attempt to quell an insurgency against a Continental Federal Republic border that separated the Federal Republic of Asia and the Federal Republic of Europe known as the Ural Wall, stumble on the Ukraine crisis, they lost a Senate seat in East Asia, failed to recruit a candidate in the Senate District of the British Isles, they fought an interparty divide over Cold War communists who were sympathetic to Russia and post-Cold War communists who wanted to move on from Russia as they perceive the country as weak. The Chawosaurian Communist Party suffered a rebellion from the Chawosaurian faction of the Japanese Communist Party because of Shang Jong Parker's Chinese background especially at a time when China's government faced global scrutiny over its handling of the COVID-19 outbreak that began in China in 2019 and 2020, complicated views of the Nanjing Massacre during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and the 2022 Senate special election in East Asia, they wanted the Socialist Coalition to refuse to seat Senator-elects Jack Teng and John Middleton as they did with Stanislav Ilyich Balakhnin after he won a special election in 2021. There was debate on whether they should refuse to seat Teng and Middleton.

In terms of candidates for Prime Minister to replace Jezebel Boleslaus, division was even stark, as James Boleslaus not indicating a decision to run to prevent a Prime Minister Sydney Lucas Webster.

#### Nominee

Prime Ministerial Nominee of the Chawosaurian Communist Party
 Convention

Former Prime Minister Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII had already served as Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria from January 1, 2000 to January 1, 2010, a full ten year term. MacAlasdair was known to have served as Prime Minister through the September 11 Attacks, the outbreak of the War on Terror, prominently the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, the election of President Obama, all of which during the 2000s.

MacAlasdair enjoyed a twelve year retirement but decided he wanted to run again for a non-consecutive second term, which only saw mixed reactions because it is not often for a Prime Minister to run such a term, it is rare for a Prime Minister to successfully achieve a second term, and his age, MacAlasdair was 72 (in his first prime ministership, MacAlasdair was in his 50s), MacAlasdair was a decade older than Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker who happens to be his prime ministerial predecessor. However, there wasn't any pushback or backlash either, nobody opposed his bid and frankly, nobody disliked MacAlasdair at all. MacAlasdair stood on good ground among the Chawosaurian general public for his service as Prime Minister, which worried the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party about their chances in the 2024 Chawosaurian legislative elections because a Prime Minister, even a retired Prime Minister, is a nearly impossible politician to beat.

#### Candidates

There was opposition to MacAlasdair's run to succeed Jezebel Isela Boleslaus as Prime Minister.

##### Declared

Candidates in this section are sorted as Declared Candidates
 Member of Parliament

The Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria has autocratic power, technically a dictatorship that is somewhat restrained by a semi-democracy in Chawosauria. The problem with being a dictator is how vulnerable you are to a coup d'état by your own government.

Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker had been facing that same problem since 2021, people within his own Chawosaurian Communist Party had been plotting to overthrow him and take his autocratic political power for themselves, but unlike most autocrats, Parker was democratically elected, however, coup threats escalated when Parker escalated the Chawo-Uralic War in 2021 and stumbled Chawosauria into the Chawo-Ukraine Airlift Disaster in 2022, and other failures and setbacks. Francisco Del Rosario, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of South America, saw Shang Jong Parker as a weak leader who's too tolerant of democracy and undermining classical communism. Two more communists Genghis Dansranbilegiin and Nariaki Okada also saw Parker as a weak leader, however, their intensions of overthrowing Parker are different. Naraki Okada saw Shang Jong Parker as another Chinese Communist Partyman, though Parker left the Chinese Communist Party in 2020 because of China's handling of the COVID-19 outbreak, but Okada, a Japanese nationalist, took issue with Shang Jong Parker over issues such as the Nanjing Massacre during the Second Sino-Japanese War, Okada denies the massacre ever happened, while Parker acknowledges the massacre. Genghis Dansranbilegiin, a Mongolian nationalist, comes from a country that was ruled by both China and Russia, resulting in Dansranbilegiin's hatred for Shang Jong Parker because Parker was from China.

##### Speculated

People in this section speculated to be candidates
 Speaker of the Chawopolis Palace | Prime Ministerial Spouse

TBD

##### Declined

* Shang Jong Parker, Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria and former Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria
* Timothy Max Roosevelt II, former President of the Socialist Republic of North America
* Chiang Zhan

#### Nomination and Convention

On March 20, 2022, both former Prime Minister Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII and Leader of the Opposition Sydney Lucas Webster, both with 193 votes of the Chawosaurian Communist Party, received two-round status to face each other in the final round at the convention. Webster was previously nominated without opposition by the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party, a party in which he leads and is part of the bipartisan Socialist Coalition. Webster received 77 votes to nothing in the Social Democratic convention, and adding 193 crossover votes from the Communist Party, Webster has a total 270 votes, just 231 votes short of the 501 votes needed to be elected Prime Minister. Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII previously served as Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2009, and now wishes to serve a non-consecutive term, and make the 2024 Chawosaurian legislative elections the first election since the 2005 Chawosaurian legislative elections, which MacAlasdair won by a massive landslide over then Opposition Leader George Windsor, that no party in Chawosauria was led by the Boleslaus family. If MacAlasdair still wins the Communist nomination, then Webster can still compete for the Premiership due to being nominated by the other party, but Social Democratic veterans who served through the 2005 election were scarred with post-traumatic stress disorder by MacAlasdair's landslide coattails that year and fear a repeat of 2005, which if happens, then 2024 and the previous election of 2019 will represent the first two consecutive elections since 1999 and 2005 itself in which one party cruised on back to back landslide wave elections. On the day of the convention on March 21, 2022, MacAlasdair won the Communist Party nomination, and with 720 votes total in the Chawopolis Palace, it is clear that MacAlasdair will be Prime Minister again.

### Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party

Prime Ministerial Nominee of the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party
 Convention

The Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party was unified in their support for Sydney Lucas Webster, all 77 of their entire caucus in the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace chose him to be Prime Minister.

Nomination
 Total

Sydney Lucas Webster was unanimously nominated by the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party on March 14, 2022.

### Other

There are speculations that some disaffected Communists will cast token votes. With the Social Democrats losing their momentum to MacAlasdair to potentially win back the Prime Ministership, the Social Democrats may potentially cast token votes of their own now that Webster's campaign is collapsing. Dansranbilegiin and Okada may still continue their quest to run for Prime Minister by preventing MacAlasdair from getting 720 votes however they may not succeed at stopping MacAlasdair from reaching the 501 majority threshold to be effectively elected. With the Chawosaurian Communist Party having such a large supermajority, MacAlasdair is entirely unstoppable.

Inspired by the 2022 Chawopolis Protests, Dansranbilegiin, Okada, but also a socialist from Bhutan by the name of Zangmo Letho Wangchen, who has his own grievance against Parker, announced a run for the Premiership in challenge to MacAlasdair, making him the first Bhutanese and the first Buddhist to contest for imperial office in Chawosauria.

## Filibuster Threats

On March 29, 2022, Dansranbilegiin, Okada, and Wangchen all threatened to filibuster MacAlasdair, but Webster offered to give his votes to MacAlasdair if a filibuster does occur because Webster knows that he is not in good condition to become Prime Minister; and the undecided Communists and the Independents threatened to vote for MacAlasdair if a filibuster does occur. Dansranbilegiin, Okada, and Wangchen threatened to withdrawal their parties from the Socialist Coalition and their member Chawoparties and start their own coalition or Chawoparty if their filibusters were blocked, but the Socialist Coalition said they'd be OK with such consequence, and still proceeded to plan to block the filibuster, leaving the Anti-Parker left to abandon their filibuster plans.

## Protests

On the day of the vote, protests against the election were held around the Chawopolis Kremlin, and though the vast majority of protesters have no ill-will towards Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII, they wanted a Prime Minister who will limit Parker's power, and MacAlasdair and Webster were both seen as inefficient to stand up to Parker.

## Election and Results

Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII won the prime ministerial election by a landslide victory, winning 723 votes out of 1,000 seats total.

## Aftermath

The election of Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII caused a major schism within the Chawosaurian left, led by the French Communist Party, the Party of the European Left threatened to resign from the Chawosaurian Communist Party, which would greatly reduce the Chawosaurian Communist Party from a supermajority. The Mongolian People's Party, the Japanese Communist Party, and the Druk Nyamnup Tshogpa have declared their independence from their Chawoparties and potentially start a Party of the Chawosaurian Left, while the Party of the European Left will act alone.

## Controversies

### Lack of female candidates

The Chawosaurian Communist Party's men-majority and leadership were more than happy to exclude their female party members from running for Prime Minister because of universal discomfort with women in power. Prime Minister Jezebel Isela Boleslaus was the first woman in history to serve as Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria, and Chawosauria's political establishment was not interested in letting another woman run things. Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker resented these sexist attitudes amongst his party bosses and demanded a slate of diverse candidates from all genders, all races, and all various background, even LGBT candidates, but the Communist Party rejected Parker's demands and refused to diversify. Genghis Dansranbilegiin, Nariaki Okada, and Zangmo Wangchen are East Asians just like Parker, but the Chawosaurian Communist Party marginalized them from having any resources needed for a Prime Ministerial bid.

### Role of race

Racial diversity was discouraged by the Chawosaurian Communist Party because of a fear of a black candidate rising to run for Prime Minister, which Chawosauria has long been trying to prevent since the Prime Ministerial Office was established in 1860. For the Chawosaurian political establishment, a black Prime Minister is a red line that nobody crosses, and that red line was made clear by Supreme Leaders Johnathan Alexandria, Timothy Max Roosevelt, and Degotoga K. Atagulkalu. Dansranbilegiin, Nariaki, and Wangchen are East Asians running for Prime Minister, but that is no longer new, Shang Jong Parker was actually the first East Asian in Chawosaurian history to run for and successfully been selected to serve as Prime Minister himself in 1989.

A Prime Minister of black or Hispanic blood has yet to serve as Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria due to universal disinterest amongst the Chawosaurian government to allow history to be made. There are black members of parliament and the Senate and they were never allowed to throw their hats into the ring for Prime Minister because of their race, and the same is said for Chawosauria's Hispanic elected officials. Black Chawosaurian politicians who said they wanted to be Prime Minister were constantly put down, marginalized, suppressed, and silenced by the Chawosaurian political regime and they even talked out by fellow black elected officials because of this retaliation, and Hispanic elected officials go throw the same discouragement and systemic oppression. A Muslim or Jewish Prime Minister of Chawosauria is absolutely an even redder line that nobody crosses. Chawosauria has no elected officials who are Muslim nor Jewish due to both groups being banned from running for office. Chawosauria is currently considering a constitutional ban on Jews running for office but a ban on Muslims from public office is not even an issue in Chawosauria.

## Comparison to the 2023 U.S. Speakership Election

In the 2022 United States midterm elections, the Republicans won only narrow control of the House of Representatives, the United States' lower chamber of Congress. In a 222-213 majority, which is similar to the Democrats' recent majority before losing it in 2022, it was clear already that Republicans will struggle to elect a Speaker of the House of Representatives. On January 3, 2023, the Republicans assumed control of the chamber and begin the process of electing a Speaker, but the first ballot failed, a failed first ballot has never occurred in the United States since 1923 when Frederick Gillett struggled to get reelected as Speaker. It took 15 total ballots and 4 days to elect a Speaker because of gridlock between the mainstream Republicans and the radical right wing of the Republican majority.

In Chawosauria, the Communist Party supermajority of 893-107 (it was briefly 913-77 in 2022) had been in place since the 2019 Chawosaurian legislative elections. Unlike Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII had a smooth sailing riding return to the office of Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria and he was easily elected on the first ballot. But like McCarthy, MacAlasdair had rebels, not out of hatred for MacAlasdair, but there were issues associated with the Chawo-Uralic War and Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker's current approach to govern. McCarthy suffered 20 Republican rebels, MacAlasdair suffered a higher number of Communist rebels in a majority significantly much larger and powerful than McCarthy's, MacAlasdair's 207 Communist rebels opposed a MacAlasdair premiership out of fear that MacAlasdair will be compromised by the Parker machine. McCarthy's 20 Republican dissenters wielded a powerful hand over the Republicans' narrow majority, but MacAlasdair's 207 Communist dissenters had no power to block MacAlasdair on any ballot.

MacAlasdair's election was easy, it took one ballot in one day and he was elected in a landslide margin of 723-277. McCarthy's election was a war of attrition, McCarthy had suffered 14 defeats, and it took him five days to make it and he was finally elected on ballot 15. The Republican stalemate was so bad that the Democrats' minority leader Hakeem Jeffries led McCarthy in the first 11 ballots while McCarthy falls short of the majority of votes he required to be elected. McCarthy's people negotiated to convince the Republican holdouts to abstain to lower the threshold to make McCarthy clinch the Speakership and it worked.

## See also

* 2020 Chawosaurian Prime Ministerial election
* 2020 Speaker of the Chawopolis Palace election
* 2020 Chawopolis Palace minority party leadership election