Senate of the Federation of Vooperia

## Overview

The Third Senate of Vooperia is the third incarnation of the Vooperian Senate, and is made up of 15 representatives for each of the 15 Districts of the Federation of Vooperia. Elections are held every every month, but have yet to begin.

## History

The History of the Senate is typically divided into Old Senate, Second Senate, and Third Senate.

### Old Senate (November 2019 - February 2020)

The Old Senate was held on a different server than SpookVooper, and was owned by Silly. During the Old Senate, elections for Senator would be national, and the top 15 candidates with the highest amount of votes would win. This system had severe drawbacks, the main one being that people would often blindly vote for their friends or their own party and there was not much room for personal campaigning.

During the Old Senate, several political parties made an appearance, such as the Gamer Workers Party, the Vooperian Party, Constitutional AnarchoDictatorship Party, and the Reformation Party. The GWP and RP combined to form the Dolphin Party after it leaked that the Vooperian Party wished to "utterly annihilate" the Gamer Workers Party. This standoff led to a generally toxic two party system, which culminated in an argument between SpikeViper and SillyPossibility which eventually led to the Old Senate being deleted.

### Second Senate (February 2020 - January 2021)

While SpikeViper called himself "President" in the Old Senate, he thought it would be better if he were not able to be impeached or unelected from his own community, so he assumed the title of "Emperor". Shortly after, he assigned 15 Senators as a sort of provisional Senate to get things up and running. Additionally, he would hold "Vice Emperor" elections which eventually became known as "Prime Minister" elections. His first attempt at this election was national, but he found that the community acted extremely toxic with national elections. He decided that he would wait until every district had proper elections, and then hold Prime Minister elections in the Senate.

During this time, new parties developed primarily from the Prime Minister Elections, the New Vooperian Party was formed by Pope and his supporters, the Dolphin Party had a resurgence supporting Sh00b, and the Liberty Party was formed by Ethosein and his supporters. Later on, new parties formed, such as the Freedom Party and Socialist Party.

After every district had representation that they elected, the first Prime Minister elections were held. Between Surge, Danish, Jacob, and Sh00b, Sh00b ended up being the first Prime Minister. However, he only lasted a few days because he lost his district seat to Luka. A few days later, a new election took place, with Surge, Danish, Jacob, and Synthiolion (more commonly known as Coolio). Surge ended up winning the election. In later elections, the Prime Minister became Pope. In September of 2020, the emperor announced a colonization plan for SpookVooper new terraformed moon, Valaria. Each of the districts was to get their own colony. This never came to fruition after the destruction of the Second Senate and the server in January 2021.

### Third Senate (July 2021 - August 2021)

The Third Senate began on July 20th, 2021, and new senators were appointed to fill in any gaps. However, parties and elections have yet to be introduced. Elections were originally supposed to begin on August 5th, but never materialized. On August 7th, Senator Olirules of New Spudland resigned, although he later reversed his decision.

On August 13th, the first elections of the Third Senate were held. New Vooperis replaced Jacob with Echotech, and Voopmont replaced Droplt with Asdia. Elections for the Netherlands were tied between Hawthorne and Bddshad, and Hawthorne was victorious.

## District Senators

Updated as of April 27th, 2022

* San Vooperisco: Opman
* Kogi District: Snovaltica
* Novastella: Kiwi
* New Avalon: Ningzhang
* New Vooperis: Oli
* Voopmont: Red Kaiser
* Avalon: Slayer
* Lanatia: Scarlett
* Ardenti Terra: Hawthorne
* Ostrov'ya: BMK
* Elysian Katonia: Jambon
* New Spudland: Corgi
* Landing Cove: Hellodan
* Thesonica: Jeffrey
* Old King: McLaren

## Sessions

#### **First Senate**

Snap Election for Replacement of Kopy and Da Cookie

September 26th 2347/(November 30th 2019)

October 14th 2347/(December 6th 2019)

November 10th 2347/(December 15th 2019)

Snap election for the replacement of Safari

Snap election for the replacement of Gaming User

Session 7/Date Unknown(December 15th 2019-February 12th 2020)

Approval of Pope Francis for Supreme Court

Session 8/Date Unknown(December 15th 2019-February 12th 2020)

Snap election for the replacement of Pope Francis

Emergency Funding for New Vooperis Restoration

#### **Second Senate**

September 5th 2349/(July 24th 2020)

October 5th 2349/(August 3rd 2020)

October 20th 2349/(August 8th 2020)

November 10th 2349/(August 15th 2020)

November 19th 2349/(August 18th 2020)

First PM Election

December 1st 2349/(August 22nd 2020)

Second PM Election

December 22nd 2349/(August 29th 2020)

January 12th 2350/(September 5th 2020)

February 5th 2350/(September 13th 2020)

February 23rd 2350/(September 19th 2020)

#### **Decanonized Senate**

January 29th 2352/(May 12th 2021)

February 28th 2352/(May 22nd 2021)

March 20th 2352/(May 29th 2021)

April 25th 2352/(June 10th 2021)

May 25th 2352/(June 20th 2021)

June 6th 2352/(June 24th 2021)

#### **Third Senate**

December 14th 2354/(April 27th 2022)

January 13th 2355/(May 7th 2022)

May Speaker of the Senate Election

January 29th 2355/(May 11th 2022)

## District Flags

Avalon FlagLanatian FlagThesonica FlagSan VooperiscoOstrov'yaOld KingArdenti TerraVoopmontKogiNew VooperisNovastellaNew SpudlandLanding CoveNew AvalonElysian Katonia