2021 Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party federal chancellorial primaries

## 2021 Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party Ten Round Caucus

The **2021 Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party federal chancellorial primaries** were a series of primary elections to select the Federal Chancellorial leader of the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party. These primary elections are set to be held between March 5 to October 1st of 2021. Following the retirement of James Dylan Oakes III due to stroke concerns, Oakes retired. Zoltan D. Berinkey was elected by the 3rd ballot by a landslide majority on April 22, 2021. The Likatau campaign accused the Berinkey campaign and the whole system of electoral corruption, and refused to concede. The Likatau campaign threatened to take this election to the Supreme Court of the Empire of Chawosauria to have the results invalidated and force the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government to order a popular vote primary election.

The overall purpose of this primary election is to elect and nominate the Chancellorial nominee of the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party to face incumbent Federal Chancellor Genghis K.Q. Taizong in the 2024 Continent Union federal election for the office of Federal Chancellor of the Continent Union.

The electoral system being used is the so-called "ten-round caucus", a system where supporters and members of a party vote ten times on all 11 candidates for an office starting with the first ballot, then have to vote on the tenth ballot for the one of the two remainders who were not eliminated in the last nine ballots. All ten elections can be held on either one day or multiple days. Whoever wins the tenth ballot is elected, however, in the process of "landsliding" refers to the process of one candidate who wins a majority (50.1%) of votes in a multi-candidate ballot while due to being a multi-man race, all the losing candidates get very small amounts of the vote, the winning candidate known as "the landslider" wins a whole majority of votes in a multi-person ballot and the upcoming ballots would be cancelled.

The first ballot was on March 5th, and Jacob K. Likatau led in the first ballot and Jean-Yves Bergeron IV was eliminated.

Zoltan D. Berinkey won the third ballot by a clear majority over multiple opponents, giving him a landslide victory and cruising him to an outright win of the whole primary. The Likatau campaign refused to concede and accused the whole system of corruption. The Likatau campaign called for a convention to be held by June but it never occurred. Negotiations took place between Berinkey and Likatau, but on February 23, 2023, the two men decided to call for a popular vote election to each other to face off, settling the whole deal. The winner takes over on the day of the election.

## Background

The Communist Party won a supermajority in the Federal Assembly of the Continent Union in the 2019 Continent Union federal election, riding on the coattails of Shang Jong Parker. No anti-communist won a chancellery in any Continental Federal Republic but each Leader of the Opposition chose James Dylan Oakes III to lead the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party through the 2019 election. Oakes had stroke problems and the party decided to force a federal chancellorial primary election to replace Oakes. Oakes agreed to a primary and this was the first federal chancellorial primary ever in Chawosaurian history.

### Electoral System and Ballot Access

This was a 10-ballot and round caucus election. 11 candidates will be listed on the first ballot, and then one candidate with the least votes will be eliminated at a time in each of the 10 ballots, thus the number of candidates will decline by each ballot to the point there are two candidates only on the 10th ballot, and the candidate with the most votes on the 10th ballot ultimately wins the whole 10-round race.

Members of the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party will meet at the capitols of each Continental Federal Republic, but grouped based on their citizenship of each nation-state of that Continent that was up for election, not all nations of any continent are up for election. Each SDWLP delegate are free to vote for whoever they like, and they will receive their ballots on the way in into the CFR capitol. When the delegates voted, their ballots will be sent to the Chawopolis Palace to be counted by the Imperial Parliament of the Empire of Chawosauria and confirmed by the Imperial Senate of the Empire of Chawosauria, and then have to be signed into being official by the Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria. If the Supreme Leader vetoes the results, the results will be sent back to the Chawopolis Palace to be overridden by the Imperial Senate and overriding to be approved by the Imperial Parliament, that is called a convention.

### Role of Eliminated Delegates

An eliminated delegate is a delegate who voted for a candidate who has been eliminated. When a delegate's choice has been eliminated, that delegate becomes a superdelegate to vote in the 10th ballot for just two options or during the convention where the votes are being counted by the Chawopolis Palace.

During the convention, those superdelegates who did not vote in the 10th ballot can come to the convention and filibuster the counting of the votes if they're not satisfied with the winner. The counting filibuster must be approved by a supermajority of the Imperial Parliament (500 votes) and if that proposed filibuster is approved, the filibuster begins and once the counting is successfully filibustered, then the Imperial Parliament will vote to force the superdelegates' political party to hold an emergency primary election to have its new nominee elected by popular vote. The primary election must be held ASAP before the general election.

## Results

### The Rise of Jacob K. Likatau

In the first ballot, Jacob Likatau won 246 delegates and first place.

### Delays of the 3rd and 4th Ballots

The third and fourth ballots have been delayed for unknown reasons.

### Berinkey's Victory

On the third ballot, Berinkey wins the third ballot with 1,168-532 out of 1,700 third ballot delegates, by winning a lopsided majority of third ballot delegates, Berinkey wins the whole chancellorial primaries and wipes out the need for the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th ballots.

### Allegations of Corruption

The Likatau campaign refused to concede and accused the system of corruption.

## National Convention

The national convention will be held on November 14, 2021 - November 20, 2021. The Chawopolis Palace will receive all the ballots of the 10-ballot caucus and officially count them. When the counting is over, the Imperial Parliament of the Empire of Chawosauria will vote to pass these ballots and then sent the ballots up to the Imperial Senate of the Empire of Chawosauria for them to be confirmed. If the Senate confirms them, they will be signed by Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker. A Supreme Leader's veto can be overridden by the Senate and the overriding of the Supreme Leader's veto would have to be approved by the Parliament.