2024 Chawosaurian elections

> *A series of elections held in the middle of Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker's first term*
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## Election

### Type

*Midterm Election Year* 🥈* The Supreme Leader and the General Secretary are not up for election

### Next

2029

Flag of Chawosauria

### Election Day

* March 1, 2024 (first round)
* October 4, 2024 (second round)

## Incumbents

### President

Francisco Dionisio Rousseff(Communist Party)

### Prime Minister

Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII(Communist Party)

## Election I

Results of the 2024 presidential elections

### Incumbent President

Francisco Dionisio Rousseff(Communist Party)

### Incumbent Prime Minister

Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII(Communist Party)

## Election III

### Federal Party reelected

Communist Party* Communist Hold
* Seat change TBD

The **2024 Chawosaurian elections** is a midterm election that will be held on Friday, March 1 for the first round and October 4 for the second round, in 2024, in the middle of the Communist Party Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker's first term, to elect the 2025-2029 Chawosaurian Government. All 1,000 members of the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace are up for reelection, all 6 chancellors and 6,000 continental seats are also up for reelection. This midterm election cycle basically involves three major national elections: the 2024 Chawosaurian presidential election, the 2024 Chawosaurian legislative elections, and the 2024 Continent Union federal election. The 2024 Chawosaurian legislative elections for the 26th Chawopolis Palace will decide if Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker will have another five years with unchecked power before he would run for reelection in 2029. This midterm election also takes place around the same year of the 2024 United States presidential election and the 2024 Russian presidential election. This midterm election will be held during the Chawo-Uralic War, as well as during the War on Terror and possibly in the era of political polarization. The 2024 midterm elections are the first Chawosaurian election cycle in Chawosaurian history to be affected by the Imperial Constitution of the Empire of Chawosauria. This is the first election cycle in Chawosaurian history held after the COVID-19 pandemic, and against the backdrop of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the war between Israel and Hamas coincided with Israeli human rights abuses against Gaza, which conservative candidates feared could help socialist candidates. Early voting began on January 12, 2024, and ends on January 26, 2024.

The likeliest outcome of this entire general election cycle by at least October 4, 2024 is that the Chawosaurian Communist Party will dramatically underperform their 2019 landslide victory, which in Chawosauria would be a pretty weird showing for a new incumbent party in their first ever midterm election. Chawosaurian Communists concede that this midterm election really could end "deeply poorly" and the possibility of a Burton Coalition majority in the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace is not as out of range as it was in 2020.

The Chawosaurian Communist Party of Shang Jong Parker, which was relatively new at the time, was elected to absolute power in the 2019 Chawosaurian elections, and officially took power on January 1, 2020, at the start of the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government. Parker's Communists claimed the mantle of the era-transition from the Chawosaurian Revolution to, what Chawosaurians expected, an era of Chawosaurian renewal after 10 years of political and global turmoil. Chawosaurians had high expectations and very high hopes for their future, and a universally popular former Prime Minister, now Supreme Leader, had further grown Chawosaurian enthusiasm for the 2020s. However, the 2020s didn't begin as smoothly as Chawosaurians hoped for. The COVID-19 pandemic paralyzed the world and killed millions of people; in the United States, a police killing of a citizen named George Floyd, which was recorded and went viral, provoked an angry wave of protests and riots demanding an end to institutionalized racism; and a chaotic-than-expected 2020 U.S. presidential election, which resulted in the defeat of President Donald Trump and his subsequent unsuccessful attempts to overturn his loss which frustrated Trump supporters so much that they stormed the U.S. Capitol in a desperate try to keep Trump in power. None of this, however, hindered Parker's popularity, in fact, these keynote events actually made Parker more popular than he already was, and by January 2021, Parker had an approval rating of 99% amongst Chawosaurians for his handling of the pandemic, his views and response to the George Floyd protests, and the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

But Parker went on to straight-up squander that popularity in 2021. In April 2021, he decided to escalate the Chawo-Uralic Conflict in an effort to maintain the newly-established Ural Wall, which is a hard border intended to draw the boundary between the newly-established Continental Federal Republics of Europe and Asia as part of the overall Union of Continental Federal Republics. Parker does this by framing to the Chawosaurian public that the Caspian-Urals Aid Network to be an alliance between the Uralic Insurgents and ISIS militias in the Caucasus aiming to declare a jihad on the Empire of Chawosauria, this narrative led to the passage of the Caspian Sea Resolution into law, which mandated military conscription, established new war taxes, and among other purposes related. But Parker underestimated Chawosaurian memories of U.S. wars in Vietnam and Iraq, and the recent end of the U.S. War in Afghanistan and the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine just a few months apart increased Chawosaurian attention to what would eventually become the Chawo-Uralic War, which truly started after the Urali conquest of the Ural Wall on December 11, 2021, and Shang Jong Parker's popularity collapsed because of the Chawo-Uralic War.

Then came the messy fallout of the Chris Hansen Act of 2021, Chawosaurian societal and cultural concerns about the trend of the 21st century. Chawosaurians have already long became anxious about the evolution of computer technology due to the automation it brings, which Chawosaurians deeply fear could start impacting their ability to find employment, but this concern escalated when artificial intelligence grew in presence and use throughout the 2020s, escalating Chawosaurian fears of the fall of their view of the natural order, which is organic supremacy. Chawosaurians have also grown to hate 21st century pop culture, but this was made worse by a widely watched moment where Will Smith hits Chris Rock during an awards show, the assault came immediately after Chris Rock, while hosting the award show, roasted Will Smith's wife, Jada, over her shaved head, likely unaware of her medical condition known as alopecia, the joke created laughter, even Will himself joined in on the laughter, only to notice Jada's annoyance at the joke which provoked Will to attack Chris in front of the cameras, the assault quickly went viral and Will Smith was punished for the assault. This generated a great Chawosaurian fatigue of 21st century pop culture that it became a big political issue in Chawosauria. Chawosaurians grew a strong distaste for the creator economy, which they saw as encouraging young people to reject the values of hard work, Chawosaurians grew a tiredness of the increased presence of sex and drugs on television, the constant referencing of politics on television, reboots of old sitcoms, hip-hop culture, drill music, social media, and the rise of E-commerce. These were issues that were an opportunities for a party to exploit, that void was filled by the non-socialist wing of the 2020-2029 Chawosaurian Opposition, which unified under the Burton Coalition founded and led by an unknown political leader in Wendell Rawlings Burton.

But Burton has his own hurtles: his conservative tone invited and brought universal skepticism in Chawosauria due to its left-wing establishment who are actually still popular amongst the Chawosaurian public, and the fact that Wendell Burton is an American and a member of the U.S. Republican Party, who have been tanked by January 6th and Trump's influence, and the United States has supported Israel during its war on Hamas starting in 2023 have also hindered Burton's efforts to become Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria. Burton led an effort to make his conservative movement more acceptable to Chawosaurians in ways the conservative Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII wouldn't do when he struggled to win parliamentary elections since 1945.

## Background

> *Main articles: History of Chawosauria, Communism in Chawosauria, 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government, Backlash against the 21st Century in Chawosauria, and Chawo-Uralic War*
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The incumbent dominant party is the Communist Party. The opposition party is the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party. The other capitalist parties don't have any presence in the Chawopolis Palace. Incumbency (a person or a party holding power) brings significant electoral advantage. This is problematic for anti-communist challengers against the incumbent Communist Party. This midterm election is a test on Shang Parker's Red Wall, if the Communist Party wins, then the red wall is solid, if not then the strength of the red wall will be in question. The disastrous 2019 elections left the Capitalists in an extremely weak state as they enter this election campaign struggling to restore relevance after being constantly written off by the media as a result of the 2019 elections. However, following the passing of the Presidency (Universal Suffrage) Act of 2020, and the Premiership (Reforms - Bill 1) Act of 2020, drastic changes to the midterm elections and government as part of the 2019 Electoral Reform Package has occurred. The 2024 Chawosaurian presidential election replaces the 2024 Chawosaurian legislative elections as a toply prioritized election. This election will be solely based on the COVID-19 pandemic earlier in this decade, because China bares responsibility in their failure to prevent a global pandemic, there is fear that because Shang Parker is of Chinese origin and China is a communist regime, there would be a backlash against the Chawosaurian Communist Party, at the same time, the Chawosaurian public has rallied around Shang Parker, resulting in his approval ratings to experience a 20 point gain from 76% to 96% from April to May of 2020, and his popularity continued to be widespread because of the Parker administration's War on Coronavirus in preventing a COVID-19 outbreak in Chawosauria.

Control of the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace is the ultimate prize. 1,000 seats total, one party must win 501 seats to secure control, 600 seats are needed for one party to be able to crackdown on minority party dissent. Presently, it is controlled by a strong hand by the Chawosaurian Communist Party since taking office on January 1, 2020, following its landslide victory in the 2019 Chawosaurian legislative elections. The left-wing had been dominant in the Chawopolis order since the 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections, the DKA Coalition that won the 2017 Chawosaurian legislative elections were left-wing but anti-communist, and for conservatives, they haven't been in power since the 1925 Chawosaurian legislative elections, and they hope to break a century of left-wing dominance but they're still unpopular. For the Social Democrats and the opposition, the Federal Assembly of the Continent Union is out of range. The Federal Republic of South America, the Federal Republic of Africa, and the Federal Republic of Asia cancelled 2024 federal elections, and with them having all 1,000 of their Continental Reichstag seats controlled by communists, it gives the Communist Party 3,000 seats projected to be in communist hands ahead of the 2024 Continent Union federal election, with 3,001 seats needed for a majority with no filibuster needed, and the strong likelihood that communists will win other seats outside FR South America, Africa, and Asia, and the possibility that the Federal Republic of Europe could cancel their own 2024 federal election too, this would give the Communist Party control of the Federal Assembly and three Continental Chancellors, and giving Federal Chancellor Francisco Del Rosario a term of his own right, whose predecessor Genghis K.Q. Taizong died in office in July 2021.

Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker of the Chawosaurian Communist Party was elected in a landslide against interim Supreme Leader Ekewaka Mikala Kalawai'a in the 2019 Chawosaurian direct election, and Parker's victory caused a highly effective coattail effect in the down ballot 2019 Chawosaurian general elections. Shang Jong Parker took office on January 1, 2020 with high hopes from the Chawosaurian general public that Parker will lead Chawosauria back to normalcy after living through the traumatizing Chawosaurian Revolution and the subsequent and coincided civil war later in the revolution era, but as Supreme Leader, Parker's tenure of office had an unfortunate start thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic threatening Chawosauria right on its own doorstep, catching the Parker administration by surprise. The force of the COVID outbreak pressured Parker to quickly take immediate action to beat the clock, Parker brutally expanded his authority to declare martial law and he ordered the 2020-2023 Chawosauria Lockdown to block a COVID-19 pandemic in Chawosauria from actually happening, Parker's efforts were successful in part because the Chawosaurian public rallied around Parker regardless of the effects of the lockdown and Parker's autocratic means to prevent a pandemic. In 2021 following the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine, Parker, with de-facto absolute power on his side, believed he can now finish his planned business with little to no checks and balances, and his first item of the agenda is finishing the Chawosaurian invasion of the Ural Mountains to quell the Uralic Insurgency against the Ural Wall, a barrier between two Chawosaurian Continental Federal Republics, being the Federal Republic of Europe and the Federal Republic of Asia, but it turned into a disaster as Parker escalated the Chawo-Uralic Conflict into what became known as the Chawo-Uralic War in 2021, putting Chawosauria in a Vietnam-like war and turning the Chawosaurian general public against him. To distract from the war, Parker exploited his semi-autocratic authority to have his government to pass serious progressive reforms and programs such as the Chawosaurian Green New Deal to address climate change, the more liberal Imperial Constitution of the Empire of Chawosauria to further democratize the Chawosaurian government, and successfully enacted an array of socially and economically progressive laws. Globally, Parker was shadowed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a wounded world economy, and the rise of fascism in the United States though it received a surprise backlash from the American public in the recent midterm elections just nearly two years prior to the 2024 midterms in Chawosauria. The recent midterm elections in the United States showed that the anti-socialists can't rely on inflation to win power and they have be careful on candidate quality. and Burton ordered his party to focus on Chawosaurian issues. Several Communist incumbents will not be running for reelection this midterm due to being defeated in primaries in 2023, which weakened Parker's power over Chawosaurian politics for the rest of his entire tenure regardless of the 2024 midterm results.

But despite the governing Communist Party's problems, there were also events and issues that threatened the anti-communists' campaigns to topple Communist Party rule in this election: the situation in Israel with the return of Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister in 2023 after losing the position in 2021, as well as surging reports on social media and by Al Jazeera of Israeli treatment of Palestinians going viral in the Chawosaurian world, further hurting Israel's image amongst the Chawosaurian public, and adding insult to injury for Israel's standing amongst Chawosauria, a right-wing government of Israel attempting to overhaul the Israeli judicial system; there was the potential perception amongst Chawosaurians that the west is trying to start a cold war with China by the United States House of Representatives (under Republican control) establishing a congressional committee that goes after the Chinese Communist Party, Canada accusing China of meddling into their recent parliamentary elections in 2019 and 2021, the United States shooting down an alleged Chinese spy balloon that flew into U.S. airspace, and U.S. lawmakers considering an outright ban on the popular Chinese social media app, TikTok, stoking fears that Chawosaurians could rally around China as they did with the Soviet Union during the Cold War; and the surge of right-wing extremism in the United States since the Presidency of Donald Trump from the late 2010s and the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol in an unsuccessful attempt to block the U.S. Congress from officializing the results of the 2020 U.S. presidential election, and there were escalations in the culture wars on education, women's rights, and the LGBT community. Domestically in Chawosauria, the issue of freedom of religion in Chawosauria was starting to become an issue again in the Chawosaurian world, and freedom of religion is still a widely unpopular idea in Chawosauria by the year 2024, and the Communist Party began to crack down on the rights of Religious Chawosaurians especially after the 2023 Chawosaurian elections, causing the anti-communists to take a neutral stance on religious freedom to win over Secular Chawosaurians, and it does not help the anti-communists very much that a literal country was violently taken over by a religious extremist organization on August 15, 2021. But unlike the 2005 Chawosaurian legislative elections, Chawosaurian domestic issues were starting to take command, which is rare in Chawosaurian politics, and dominating Chawosaurian domestic issues were starting to help the anti-communists gain the ability to neutralize the issues of American political carnage, the threat of religious extremism, and geopolitics. But Chawosaurians were largely disinterested and apathetic to the issues of the increasingly draconian far-right extremism in the United States and the west, this made it difficult for Chawosaurian socialists to tie their surging conservative opponents to western world fascism.

By election day 2024, the power of communist party rule over Chawosaurian politics was at its peak. During the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government, the Chawosaurian Communist Party dominated the entire Chawosaurian government during the early 2020s, the Communist Party of Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker successfully staved off the COVID-19 pandemic from infecting the Empire of Chawosauria, greatly reformed the Chawosaurian government with the Imperial Constitution of the Empire of Chawosauria which brought direct democracy, free and fair elections directed under a two-round system, stricter separation of powers, certain portions of nonpartisan democracy, due process rights and the right to a fair trial before conviction, and the constitutionalization of institutional secularity, civil and political rights, universal healthcare, universal education, universal housing, free speech rights, as well as "hinted constitutional rights" to keep and bear arms, abortion, to die, and to personal privacy. The Communist Party had operated the Green New Deal and they also passed a wave of productive legislation, often generally progressive. However, despite their respectable legislative successes, the Chawosaurian Communist Party still failed to honor their promise to implement Karl Marx's *Communist Manifesto* into legislative action, mostly because communism is not a realistic ideology, and the constitutional reforms that they passed is partly in conflict with Marx's works. Thanks to Communism's lack of reality and actual risks, the Chawosaurian Communist Party stuck with center-left social democratic policies instead, which did won over the bipartisan approval from the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party, but it also dramatically reduced the need for a social democratic party in Chawosauria given that the Communist Party stole a significant majority of their platform.

The 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government has been the most productive but also the most eventful of any session of parliament in Chawosaurian history; the COVID-19 pandemic and its socio-economic fallout, an unexpectedly grinding Russian war of conquest against Ukraine, increasingly dramatic and unusual weather events, political polarization and culture wars, new technological and cultural trends, as well as the Chawosaurian government's escalation of the Chawo-Uralic Conflict to preserve the Ural Wall in 2021 with the Caspian Sea Resolution, the escalation resulted in the Chawo-Uralic War, an opposite result from what the Chawosaurian government expected and the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government began to face increasing backlash for the dramatic trend of the 2020s, the Chawo-Uralic War, the numerous sex scandals that erupted in 2023, and the over-legislating of the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government. As a result, the Chawosaurian Communist Party has fallen out of favor with the Chawosaurian people. This caused infighting inside the Chawosaurian Communist Party and political instability in the Chawosaurian government.

In Chawosauria, midterm elections, especially the first one held during a monarchy, favor the Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria than not. Comparing midterms between Chawosauria and the United States, that is an opposite political dynamic from midterm elections under the President of the United States, which nearly always show negative results for the U.S. President since the American Civil War. Recently since the Great Depression, there only have been five exceptional midterm elections that favored the President: the five being 1934 under President Roosevelt due to the popularity of the Roosevelt administration's New Deal programs to fight the Great Depression, 1962 under President Kennedy with the resolution to the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1998 under President Clinton due to the widespread unpopularity of the impeachment proceedings against Clinton, 2002 under President Bush with the aftermath of the September 11 Attacks, and 2022 under President Biden due to public tiredness with Trumpism and the unpopularity of the fall of *Roe v. Wade*.

1998 and 2022 are the two successful midterms that did not result in trifecta victories for the President but they were successful because these midterms did not result in what is called in America a "wave" where the out-of-party gains substantial numbers of seats. Examples being 2018 when President Trump lost 41 seats in the U.S. House of Representatives and seven governorships to the Democratic Party, President Obama's midterm defeats were more hollow as he lost 63 house seats and 6 senate seats and governorships each in 2010 and in 2014, Obama lost 8 senate and 13 house seats and 2 governorships all to the Republican Party. In the 2006 midterm elections, President Bush faced backlash over the War in Iraq that he started in 2003 and justified it by connecting it to the September 11 Attacks and the War on Terror by suggesting Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, but as it turns out, no such weapons existed and the invasion of Iraq had only delivered poorer consequences for the U.S. Armed Forces, this results in voter anger amongst Americans and President Bush lost 30 house seats, 5 senate seats, and 6 governorships to the Democratic Party. 1994 was not President Clinton's best year as President, his party has controlled Congress for a very long time since the Great Depression, and it collapsed in the 1994 midterms, losing 54 house seats, 8 senate seats, and 11 governorships to the Republican Party.

The 2024 Chawosaurian legislative elections will decide if Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker gets another five-years with unchecked power, and the elections will also decide if *interim*-Prime Minister Jezebel Isela Boleslaus gets her first democratically-elected term as Prime Minister. The 2024 Chawosaurian presidential election will decide if President Francisco Dionisio Rousseff gets a second term as President. The 2024 Continent Union federal election will decide if Federal Chancellor Francisco Del Rosario gets a democratically-elected term as Federal Chancellor.

In the 2019 Chawosaurian elections, the Chawosaurian Communist Party rode on the coattails of former Prime Minister Shang Jong Parker as he cruises to a landslide victory over *interim* Supreme Leader Ekewaka Mikala Kalawai'a in the 2019 Chawosaurian direct election by a margin of 80% to Supreme Leader Kalawai'a finishing up with just 15% of the national popular vote, an electoral college is only needed in case of a popular vote tie and it was once used to settle a popular vote tie in the April 2017 Chawosaurian direct election. Down the 2019 ballot, the Communist Party won a supermajority in the Chawopolis Palace's legislative chamber in the 2019 Chawosaurian legislative elections, defeating a first-time anti-communist majority which a first-time elected majority losing power right in the next election is something that never really happened before in Chawosaurian history. The Communist Party also became the first political party in Chawosaurian history to win a majority in the newly established Federal Assembly of the Continent Union in the 2019 Continent Union federal election.

Shang Jong Parker and his Communist Party officially takes power on January 1, 2020 during the ceremonial establishment of the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government. Expecting to implement the agenda of the Communist Party, the communist government ran into the COVID-19 pandemic, which forces the 2020 Government to lockdown Chawosauria for the remainder of the pandemic, successfully preventing a COVID-19 pandemic in the Chawosaurian world. 2020 becomes a bumpy year, a pandemic that disrupts normal life, a very ugly presidential election in the United States, and the racial fallout caused by the police killing of George Floyd in the United States. Not to mention the escalation of climate change with ugly wildfires, tornadoes, and hurricanes.

Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker's approval ratings had been the highest as over 90% because of the traumatizing events of 2020. Due to Parker's new found popularity, the Communist Party saw massive electoral successes in cantonal and other municipal elections during 2020, throughout 2021 and 2024, the Communist Party crushed special elections all across Chawosauria mainly due to Shang Parker's pandemic era popularity.

This is the first election cycle held during the reign of Shang Jong Parker, and traditionally, a Supreme Leader's first midterm elections are always friendlier compared to midterm elections during the tenure of a President of the United States. Emperor Santiago's first midterm election was the 1905 Chawosaurian legislative elections, and in that election, Emperor Santiago saw his liberal allies in the U.K. Liberal Party and the Liberal Party of Canada together picking up 313 seats from his conservative enemies led by Prime Minister Malcolm Lyons MacKenzie Wilson, and adding to Wilson's humiliation, the U.K. Conservative Party was massively defeated back home in their native country in the 1906 United Kingdom general election to the U.K. Liberal Party less than a year later, the British elections were the tipping point that ended Wilson's prime ministership for good, Wilson becomes such an unpopular Prime Minister because of the British elections that he never earned a second term as Prime Minister, thus beginning a trend of Prime Ministers falling short of a second terms until 1949. In the 1979 Chawosaurian legislative elections, which was Supreme Leader Timothy Max Roosevelt's first midterm election, Roosevelt's Chawallian Communist Party picked up 81 seats, thus gaining a supermajority that will last until the 2009 Chawosaurian legislative elections. In Supreme Leader Joseph Mario Lopez's only midterm election in the 2015 Chawosaurian legislative elections, the Communist Party regained massive ground that was lost in 2009. In Supreme Leader Degotoga K. Atagulkalu's only midterm election, the anti-communists won their first ever majority since World War II in the 2017 Chawosaurian legislative elections.

## Campaign

### Pre-2023 Events

The campaign began as early as 2022, only two parties are to participate: the Chawosaurian Communist Party and the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party. Independents are welcome to participate as candidates with equal nationalized funding and equal recognition for debates and so on.

The political parties of Chawosauria who were speculated to participate in this midterm election: Grassroots Democratic People's Green Party of Chawosauria thought of the idea of suing for ballot access, but backed off due to fears of opening a can of worms which is the feud between the Green Party of the United States and its Alaskan voices who refused to recognize the national Greens' 2020 ticket, who were nominated in a alleged-shady way in their party's primaries during the 2020 U.S. presidential election and the factionalism it partially caused among anti-Biden leftists, as well as racist and antisemitic controversies over the Green Party of Canada. The situation of the American Green Party's handling of the 2020 U.S. elections and its treatment of their Alaskan affiliates gave Chawosaurians a negative impression on the American Greens because how the Green Party treated its Alaskan faction looked like to Chawosaurians that the Greens were behaving in a cult-like or just straight up authoritarian attempt to suppress political dissent. The Chawosaurian affiliates of the Green Party of the United States also decided not to participate in the 2024 Chawosaurian presidential election because of the fear of potential scrutiny the Alaskan Green Party situation would bring upon themselves among the Chawosaurian media and the public. On the right-wing side of things, the Popular Democratic People's National Party withdrew from the midterms due to fears of scrutiny the right-wing siege on the United States Capitol could bring to the party, so they pressured their Trumpist leader Charles Muskie to step down as Leader of the Opposition and his party to withdrawal from the 2021 Chawosaurian Opposition leadership election and the 2024 midterm elections. Other parties: Chawosaurian Progressive Party dissolved in 2020, the Chawosaurian Liberal Democrats were not allowed to participate due to legally disqualifying election results from the last election but they will be allowed to participate in the next election, and unclear if the other parties will participate as well depending on their legal qualifications and credentials.

Sydney Lucas Webster took office as Chawosaurian Leader of the Opposition on January 1, 2022 after his landslide victory in the 2021 Chawosaurian Opposition leadership election, giving the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party a what is called in Chawosaurian politics as "an opposition trifecta" because Sydney Lucas Webster is the leader of that party and the party itself holds representation in both the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace and the Federal Assembly of the Continent Union as a minority party standing against a national Chawosaurian Communist Party supermajority trifecta government headed by Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker. Sydney Lucas Webster, who is exactly a decade older than Shang Jong Parker and a U.S. Army-Air Force veteran in the War in Vietnam when Parker was a child, as well as the grandson of former Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster (1860-1955), becomes fully set to be one of Chawosauria's most powerful heads of government from the shadows of the opposition against Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker. During the second year of special elections held during the 25th Chawopolis Palace, along with Webster's election as opposition leader, the Social Democrats defended 7 out of 9 constituencies against communist challengers in the 2021 Chawosaurian elections.

Following Webster's inauguration, the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party, with a new opposition trifecta, begin to strategize on how to win an opposition government trifecta, which is when one opposition party controls the Leader of the Opposition and the entire legislative branch of government against the Supreme Leader, causing a national divided government. If another party besides the Chawosaurian Communist Party and the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party is victorious in the 2024 midterm elections, then it will still create a divided government against Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker but it will also cause a divided opposition against Opposition Leader Sydney Lucas Webster, a repeated situation under Muskie from late 2020 to all of 2021. Webster wanted zero association with former Supreme Leader Ekewaka Mikala Kalawai'a because his role in the establishment of the Ural Wall when he was Supreme Leader back in 2019 and the fact that Kalawai'a lost an election to Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker by a brutal blowout defeat, so the idea of being associated with a politician who was overwhelmingly rejected by the voters in a national election may not sound good for a campaign trying to win these same voters. Webster and Kalawai'a have however maintained a personal friendship that goes back to the 1960s. Webster's nephew Garfield Lucas Webster IV switched parties from Democratic to Republican in 2022, citing his opposition to President Joe Biden, Webster maintained his silence on this event because of the personal embarrassment it could bring to Webster himself and his fear of being implicated into criminal investigations into the Chawosaurian government's support for Joe Biden back in the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

The Communist Party strategy was formulated in 2022, which involved the exploitation of the storming of the United States Capitol, the 2022 Kazakh Protests, Freedom Convey 2022 protests in Canada, and the Taliban takeover of Kabul, to fearmonger against right-wingers. The Communist Party's new non-left-wing opponent, the Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party, would be stereotyped widely as a right-wing party, which the Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party said that they're not, they're a big-tent party. The Chawosaurian Communist Party hopes to link the Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party to the U.S. Capitol storming, the Taliban siege of Afghanistan, and the Freedom Convey 2022, which Chawosaurian Revolutionaries fear the Communist Party could succeed. The Social Democratic strategy is to focus on Chawosaurian issues such as the Chawo-Uralic War and the Ural Wall. The Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party seeks to unite all non-socialist factions against two rivaling socialist parties, the Communists and the Social Democrats, to reverse the realignment of the 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections. The Grassroots Democratic People's Green Party of Chawosauria hopes to use the ongoing session of special elections to regain the legal legitimacy that it lost in the 2019 Chawosaurian legislative elections, and if they succeed, they would prioritize climate change, renewable energy solutions, and environmentalism. The Greens had a red-green alliance with the Social Democrats during the 2019 Chawosaurian elections, but when the alliance was resoundingly defeated in 2019, the alliance collapsed and developed a strained relationship.

The Chawosaurian Communist Party and the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party have joined together as the Socialist Coalition, though still compete against each other, the Socialist Coalition is to keep socialism in power. Going into 2022, the United States underwent a dramatic shift to the right since President Biden took office in 2021, where voting rights were rolled back, *Roe v. Wade* which provided the federal right to abortion in the United States, was overturned, further escalating the culture wars than ending it, while abortion is solidly legal in Chawosauria, however abortion is a taboo subject in Chawosauria, Chawosaurians would not accept or take kindly to abortion being a political issue in Chawosauria or be exploited as a culture war weapon against opponents, but the Socialist Coalition and the conservative wing of the Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party have made plans to turn abortion into a political issue despite warnings that it will not end well for neither the socialists nor the conservatives. This conservative push in the Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party to turn abortion into a political issue has caused an internal civil war within the Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party, especially between the pro-choice and pro-life factions within the Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party, interfering with the party goal to eradicate the dominant political power of socialism in Chawosauria.

### After 2023

The campaign starts in 2023 as primaries begin to start, the Communist Party faces uncertain reelection prospects in the 2024 Chawosaurian legislative elections.

## Events and Issues

> *For the history of Chawosauria in the early 2020s, see main articles: Monarchy of Shang Jong Parker and the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government*
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### COVID-19 Pandemic

> *Main articles: COVID-19 Cases in Chawosauria, War on Coronavirus, and the 2020-2023 Chawosauria Lockdown*
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   Because the Communist Party holds both the Monarchy and the Chawopolis Palace since January 1, 2020, this makes 2024 an extremely unfavorable year for Shang Parker's anti-communist opponents. The only non-communist party, the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party, need to add 394 seats to their total 107 seats to win 501 seats, 493 seats if they want to win a supermajority.
The 2020 COVID-19 global pandemic has shifted the aims of the elections and threatened to scrutinize the Communist Party and its brand. The Communist Party, after supporting China in the previous election in 2019, has now turned on China over the coronavirus pandemic. However, the Communist Party joined Shang Jong Parker to prevent a COVID-19 outbreak in Chawosauria and supported Parker's War on Coronavirus initiatives. The Capitalists' standing was damaged by the Impeachment of Prime Minister Jonathan Sidney MacCarthy III over allegations that due to his Irish bloodline, he is a Catholic while serving in public office, which it's taboo in Chawosauria due to fears of religious wars seen in the Crusades and culture wars seen in the Western world. The lack of unity among the Capitalist opposition on MacCarthy's impeachment gave the Communist Party enough to impeach him and pressure him to either resign or face conviction in the Senate which would mean forced removal from office. Chawosaurian civilians got angry at anti-impeachment politicians calling for a recall election rather than impeachment proceedings. An unpopular position (84% of the public opposed a recall election), this position made the politicians who called for a recall election vulnerable of losing their seats. Social Democratic leadership refused to have an official position on a recall election due to its massive unpopularity.

   Following the Capitalists' loss in the 2019 Chawosaurian elections, there is a fight on rather the Capitalists should go to the center to keep liberals, moderates, and conservatives on the same bandwagon, or go far to the left to try to attract some socialist voters who are already shifting to the Communist Party in support for Shang Parker. The Capitalists are trying to juggle both balls by shifting to the right with Charles Muskie in the 2020 Chawosaurian Opposition leadership election while letting the only capitalist party in legislature: the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party, to shift more to the left as they see fit. Unfortunately, according to many political pundits and experts, that is a strategy bound to fail. Not having a consistent message is what always cost elections. In July 2020, once again, embarrassing chaos erupted in the anti-communist parties of Chawosauria over the vacancy of third party status following the collapse of the Chawosaurian Progressive Party, and the race to replace the Progressives as third party. Talks of a third party selection will began by August 2020, and it is unknown when the party selection will take place. This is the first time in Chawosauria that a party participating in a legislative election dissolved and had to be replaced before that legislative election even started or occurred. On September 15, 2020, it was decided that the Grassroots Democratic People's Green Party of Chawosauria, the Chawosaurian Liberal Democrats, and other parties cannot participate because they did not get 1,000,000 votes due to either sharing an election result with another party (Grassroots Democratic People's Green Party) or never visited (Chawosaurian Liberal Democrats). Jezebel Isela Boleslaus, Sydney Lucas Webster, and Charles Muskie are the only three qualified Prime Ministerial candidates.

### Chawosaurian interest in U.S. Politics

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   Donald Trump lost reelection in the 2020 presidential election in the United States, sparking wide relief among the capitalist opposition to Shang Parker, the capitalists now have the space they needed to run American candidates for the Palace, even give them funding. Trump's electoral downfall was a victory for Chawosaurian American candidates and Chawopolis Palace incumbents from the United States who were worried about not getting funds and endorsements from their respective parties due to discomfort among these parties about supporting Chawosaurian candidates running in Chawosaurian electoral districts located in the United States, a nation being represented by a President seen by many around the world as an idiot, a bigot, and a tyrant.

   The 2020 U.S. presidential election made two parties decide against participating in this legislative election cycle, the Popular Democratic People's National Party feared that their past support for Donald Trump will haunt them after the 2021 storming of the U.S. Capitol, in the similar fashion George Windsor was haunted by his past support for Tony Blair, the U.K. Prime Minister, whose popularity declined due to his role in the Iraq War, and Blair was still Prime Minister during the 2005 Chawosaurian legislative elections, costing George Windsor 67 seats to Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII. Also impacted by the 2020 U.S. presidential election, the Grassroots Democratic People's Green Party of Chawosauria withdrew from the election because of the fear of potential association with the Green Party of the United States after the U.S. Green Party kicked out the Green Party of Alaska for refusing to recognize the party's 2020 Green presidential ticket. This makes the U.S. Green Party look like a cult in the eyes of Chawosaurian voters. But the situation with the U.S. Green Party is less intense than the civil war in the U.S. Republican Party, on May 12, 2021, Republicans in the United States House of Representatives, which its under slim Democratic control, oust third top Republican leader, Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney under U.S. President George W. Bush (a) back in the 2000s. Liz Cheney was removed from leadership role because she proclaimed that the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election was not rigged, thus declaring U.S. President Joe Biden (a) as America's legitimate commander in chief rightfully elected by the American people, and that caused such an uproar within the Republican Party that they flat out removed her, only to infuriate their moderate wing into threatening to form a third party to give those moderate Republicans a choice rather than reluctantly voting for Democrats.

Chawosaurian conservatives were deeply discouraged by the situation with American conservatism, resorting in some Chawo-conservatives to shift slightly to the left, or others just not caring much about politics at all. Progressive conservatives and green conservatives begin fighting within the Popular Democratic People's National Party or wanting to either form their own party or gain influence over the incredibly socialist-leaning but slightly anti-communist Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party. Some look to the Chawosaurian Liberal Democrats and given the widely non-religious culture of Chawosauria, no conservative in Chawosauria is looking up to the Christian Democratic People's Republican Party. In 2021, the Parker administration and the Chawosaurian government escalated the Chawo-Uralic War, in a time when it seemed as if the world is ready to move beyond COVID-19 thanks to vaccines. What started the Chawo-Uralic War was the Treaty of Bucharest's establishment of the Ural Wall, an intercontinental border between the Federal Republic of Europe from the westside and the Federal Republic of Asia from the eastside of the border, the Ural Wall is not an actual wall but just a separation barrier; however, Uralic Chawosaurians living in the Ural Mountains which has become part of the Ural Wall felt the socio-economic burden of the Ural Wall, beginning the Uralic Insurgency and the Chawo-Uralic Conflict between the Chawosaurian government and the Uralic locals.

On May 24, 2022, Wendell Rawlings Burton takes over the Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party, Burton's election chances of becoming Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria is really not great nor impressive; Chawosauria is a left-wing nation, over 90% of Chawosaurians in polling surveys from 1947 to 2021 identify themselves as left-wing, and under 10% of Chawosaurians don't identify is not left-wing. Wendell Burton's supporters fear being linked to U.S. President Donald Trump due to his controversial presidency and the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, and during the 2019 Chawosaurian direct election, then incumbent Supreme Leader Ekewaka Mikala Kalawai'a made a failed attempt to distance himself from Trump, but he was interfered with his American citizenship, Chawosaurians have dual-citizenships, and Supreme Leader Kalawai'a lost to Shang Jong Parker in a landslide. How should Burton handle the issue of abortion amid the backdrop of the fate of *Roe v. Wade* in the United States, Burton's supporters are sharply divided on how he should handle the issue, pro-lifers urged Burton to take an anti-abortion stance given that he is a Republican and abortion is taboo in Chawosauria, but some suggested neutrality because the overturning of abortion rights in America still doesn't look good for the Chawosaurian right and exploiting the issue for electoral gain is showing signs of backfiring, abortion is a taboo subject in Chawosauria that even making a political issue out of abortion won't be tolerated in Chawosauria. Burton suggested that since abortion is legal in Chawosauria despite being overwhelmingly unpopular, Chawosauria's socialist political higherups should be challenged into passing laws restricting abortion while maintaining neutrality on the issue during the 2024 election campaign.

The Republican Party had a bad performance in the 2022 U.S. elections, an unusual result because in the U.S., midterm elections don't go in the President's favor, in this case Democratic President Joe Biden, whose approval ratings is fair below double digits and he is presiding over a nation aching with inflation and high crime. Because of these two problems, Republicans were expected to do so well that 2022 will be another 2010 when then President Barack Obama, another Democrat who also presided over a weak economy himself in 2009-2013, lost 63 seats plus control of the U.S. House of Representatives and 6 seats in the Senate but not enough to lose control there. The 2010 elections were infamously called a "shellacking" coined by Obama in a Q%A with reporters the day after the election. In the 2022 midterms, Republicans stagnated in the Senate, allowing the Democrats to retained control, and gained only little in the House of Representatives but the race for house control is so narrow due to Democrats outpacing history that will take days for the deal to be sealed.

Meanwhile in Chawosauria, two main parliamentary rivals, Sydney Lucas Webster and Wendell Rawlings Burton, both Americans and one a Democrat and the other being a Republican, were noticeably silent on the midterms at least publicly, but privately, Webster, a Democrat, is incredibly relieved, bullish, and pleased, and he and his wife Victoria proceeded to having "a bullish holiday season" despite Chawosauria is not a nation that celebrates Christmas, while Burton, a Republican, becomes very disillusioned with his party and questioned whether he should just leave the Republican Party and become an Independent since he actually voted for Biden in 2020 over Trump, that move is opposed by his wife Dorothy Wallace Burton, who tried to sugarcoat the results and downplayed the gravity of the results. Burton told his Chawoparty, the Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party, that what happened in the U.S. is that the politicization of the anti-gender movement and opposition to critical race theory won't be tolerated by the Chawosaurian electorate. Unlike Americans, Chawosaurians generally tolerate critical race theory that they don't really care about the issue of that much as Americans do in comparison and Chawosaurians are sharply just so incredibly divided on the so-called "anti-gender movement" with poll aggregators shows around 36% of Chawosaurians have a favorable opinion of the movement to 34% having an opposing stance with 30% not holding either stance, that divided Chawosaurians are on the anti-gender movement due to a lack of further understanding of the movement, but what is clear is that Chawosauria is uniformly an LGBT-friendly world with its people of all stripes openly accepting of LGBT people that homophobia and transphobia are taboos in the Chawosaurian world.

Humiliated and embarrassed, the Republicans turned on each other, nearly universally blaming former President Donald Trump for meddling in the GOP primaries against moderate candidates who could've won races or been competitive in Democratic strongholds. The fringe MAGA wing of the party blamed the party establishment for hesitant or inadequate support for their candidates out of favoritism of moderate candidates who have managed to survive primaries, and the Republican establishment blamed the MAGA movement for alienating Independents and depressed moderate Republican voters (or Biden Republicans) from moving back to the Republican Party. Republican leaderships were threatened with shakeups and the whole party's future was left in question.

After a contentious fight to elect a U.S. Speaker, the Republicans assumed narrow control of the U.S. House of Representatives, and one of their first orders of business is the United States House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, a really a partisan committee, but Chawosaurian anti-communists became anxious because of Chawosaurian memories of the Cold War and the Chawosaurian media started comparing the new select committee to fight the Chinese Communist Party to the House Un-American Activities Committee that went after the American left due to suspicion of espionage for the Soviet Union. There was weariness amongst anti-communists that the Republican majority in the U.S. House are trying to either start or escalate a cold war between the United States and China, though China had been a weakening power since the COVID-19 pandemic erupted. During the 2019 Chawosaurian elections, China was a rising power, having flexing its muscles on Taiwan and successfully quelled a standoff between them and an uprising in Hong Kong, and a candidate for Supreme Leader of the Empire of Chawosauria of Chinese origin, Shang Jong Parker, took advantage of China's rise and won in a landslide, only to having to distance himself from Beijing due to its handling of COVID. General Secretary Linghu Xiaoliang responded to the Republican select committee to combat China, calling it "U.S. aggression" and the Chawosaurian Communist Party rallied around China for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.

### The Ural Wall and the Chawo-Uralic War

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    The Ural Wall is a continental border that separates two of Chawosauria's six Continental Federal Republics, two of which being the Federal Republic of Europe and the Federal Republic of Asia, as part of the overall borders of the Union of Continental Federal Republics. Though not an actual border wall, it is a mountainous hard border located mainly on the Eurasian mountain range called the Ural Mountains, giving the Ural Wall its name, though the border also stretches below the Ural Mountains to the south, partially separating Russia from Kazakhstan; the Caucasus from Turkmenistan, Iran, and Turkey; and then Turkey from Greece, making it the longest border in the world if the Ural Wall exists in the Outer World. On June 23, 2019, following the successful conclusion of the Chawosaurian Civil War which ended the Chawosaurian Revolution, the Chawosaurian Imperial Government, through the signing of the Treaty of Bucharest, unwittingly established a hard border on Chawosaurian settlements on the Ural Mountains to define the boundary between the Federal Republic of Europe and the Federal Republic of Asia. The Chawosaurian Imperial Government does not track its population, and this new border was so hard that it made it extremely difficult for Chawosaurian communities in the Ural Mountains to live their everyday lives and the border greatly disrupted their economies, resulting in anger which led to the Uralic Insurgency, which left the Chawosaurian government utterly confused that there are citizens living in the Ural Mountains but the government responded with military force anyway instead of diplomatically resolving the conflict, Military action has only made it worse and it led to the outbreak of the disastrous Chawo-Uralic War. For so many years, borders were advertised to Chawosaurians as a public safety necessity and the reputation of borders amongst Chawosaurians is forever damaged by the giant clusterfuck of a border situation in the Ural Mountains, it doesn't help the popularity of borders so much amongst Chawosaurians that the Ural Wall is dividing citizens... of the very same nation... rather than separating citizens from two different countries.

    The Chawosaurian general public turned on borders and strong border politics as a result of the Ural Wall and the Chawo-Uralic War. After a temporary ceasefire of the war ordered by the Chawosaurian government so they can deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, the war was re-escalated to finish the Uralic insurgency and force citizens to move to Siberia to use their land as border property after discovering the against the border after discovering the Caspian-Urals Aid Network, but the government wanted to cover up the truth about why Chawosauria is really fighting the Chawo-Uralic War, so the Chawosaurian government came up with the narrative of the ISIL-Caspian Triangle, accusing the Uralic Insurgents and their Caspian suppliers of aiding and abetting with ISIS forces in the Caucasus to rally support for the war knowing the Chawosaurian public will not support the intension of the war and the Ural border itself would not be very popular. The 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government enacted the Caspian Sea Resolution to conscript and mobilize Chawosaurians into military service, however, these actions by the Chawosaurian government only cost Chawosauria further control of the conflict, creating an even messier war and effectively crippled Chawosaurian morale for the war effort and eventually strong border politics when it became clear to the Chawosaurian public that the Ural Wall is the source of the quickly unraveling Chawo-Uralic War. Starting in 2022, Chawosaurians begin to question the purpose of border security and borders generally more than they question the Chawo-Uralic War.

Realizing that the Chawo-Uralic War has failed and the elections are fastly approaching, Parker realized that he needed to act quick to gain control of the war, and decided that he cannot continue his current approach. Parker was told by his wife Kim Chae-Won that sending troops to war is not gonna win his party votes. Parker agreed to change course. On December 31, 2023, Parker announced big changes to the war

### The possibility of a Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party wave

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    Historically, conservatives are catastrophically weak amongst the Chawosaurian electorate since the infamous collapse of conservative party viability in Chawosaurian politics in the 1925 Chawosaurian legislative elections, which conservatives had yet to recover from. During the Cold War, the Chawosaurian electorate moved far to the left in favor of the Chawallian Communist Party due to the Soviet Union's role in finishing World War II in Europe, Chawosaurian hatred for the western world for the colonial age and its influence on Chawosaurian politics at the time, and the role of Christianity (a deeply unpopular religion in Chawosauria) in western world politics, and by 1980, Chawosauria would be a full socialist state as the last conservative party presence faded away after the end of the conservative premiership of Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII and his unsuccessful Coalition Party. The Cold War would go on to end following the crumbling of the communist world and the resultant collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, drastically shifting the global balance of power entirely to the western world.

In the 21st century, conservatism made a bad impression on Chawosaurians for its opposition to LGBT rights, their support for the War on Terror which Chawosaurians widely saw as typical western world colonialism, and the tumultuous Presidency of Donald Trump in the United States. The conservative movement in Chawosauria began to make an effort to distance themselves from the traditional conservative movement in the western world, putting distance on themselves from the Christian right, Christian democracy, Trumpism, right-wing populism, Israel, and in some cases, neoliberal and fiscal conservative elements, to instead build a "Chawosauria-based conservatism" based on Chawosaurian cultural values while at the same time ignoring or allow different ideas on how the economy should be managed in Chawosauria, and they have embraced the LGBT community, secular government, labor unions, certain aspects of socialism, Chawosaurian Agrarianism, Chawosauria's pagan past, and strongly denounced Christianity, Judaism, and all religions in general.

The Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party was established in December 2021 to attract anti-socialists who strayed away following the collapse of the anti-communist 24th Chawopolis Palace in the 2019 Chawosaurian elections to the Chawosaurian Communist Party and the resultant survival of the sole anti-communist but moderately socialist Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party, who most folded in favor of the Communist Party's agenda throughout the entire 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government. Wendell Rawlings Burton became leader of the Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party on May 24, 2022, but his presence at first caused concern, Burton is a member of the U.S. Republican Party, but he didn't vote for Donald Trump in 2016 nor 2020, and Burton is a moderate conservative who accepts the party's strategy for a Chawosaurianized conservatism.

In the United States during its most recent midterm elections in November 2022, the Republicans had an embarrassing performance against President Biden for an opposition party that was supposed to win the midterms in a landslide as history mostly shows. The Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party took that as a warning that conservatism doesn't sell well in the developed world and careful campaigning is to be extremely encouraged.

### The fallout of Queen Elizabeth II's death and a subsequent King and Queen of Britain

   Queen Elizabeth II of Britain, who had reigned Britain since 1952 at the time the British Empire had remained, passed away after her 70-year service on the throne. This will result in her eldest son, Charles III, and his second wife, Camilla, will be the King regent and the Queen consort of the United Kingdom.

Chawosauria had a complicated relationship with European monarchies, particularly those in Western Europe, nations with access to the Atlantic Ocean as well as being the ones with the advanced technology, giving them the ability to colonize the new world that was accidentally discovered by the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus in 1492, but European colonialism had took a dark turn when European settlers encounter the western hemisphere's indigenous populations, with the prominent downfall of the Aztecs, which had since made the then Chawalliankalitan Empire to live in fear of being next. That eventually happened when the Chawo-Wolfsberg War broke out in 1861, when the Wolfsberg Empire and their British supporters invaded the Chawalliankalitans and ended the Chawalliankalitan civilization in the 1900s, resulting in the creation of the Empire of Chawosauria and their own Orbis but had to be influenced by British politics. The Wolfsberg Empire attempted to convert Chawosaurians to Christianity but Chawosaurians fiercely resisted often violently, but when the Revolutions of 1917-1923 occurred, Chawosaurians became attracted to socialism due to its anti-religious and anti-colonial appeal, and dramatically changed Chawosaurian politics forever in the landmark 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections, where the Chawallian Communist Party led by Timothy Max Roosevelt won a landslide majority in the Imperial Assembly of the Chawopolis Palace. The 1945 elections permanently ended British political influence and it spelled the end of the Wolfsberg Empire's Christianization efforts on Chawosaurians, dooming the whole Christian mission. and when the socialists completed their takeover of Chawosauria by 1980, the last Christian missionaries were chased out of Chawosauria and British political influence was already gone, and this is the origin of present day socialist rule of Chawosauria. The Chawallian Communist Party favored the Soviet Union against the western world, which comprised of the veteran colonial powers of western Europe, which opposed communism.

Throughout the rest of 2022 to early 2023, the issue of colonialism and the buzz over the British monarchy began to die down.

### Rise of Space Exploration in the 2020s

    The 2020s is expected to be the decade where space exploration becomes a human reality, it was first successfully experimented during the Cold War, but Chawosaurians at the time tolerated it. Space exploration has taken a new turn in the early 2020s, with the launching of the Artemis program. Robotic and human astronauts would be taking on space missions and it was announced that space colonialism will be a reality in the 2020s. Space colonization has always been a widely to universal unpopular subject in the Chawosaurian world, and socialism is widely associated with scientific ambition, and that was appealing to Chawosaurians due to fear of religion which relationship with science is known to have been complicated. Chawosaurian anti-socialists have made the constant mistake of condoning religion, which had always alienated Chawosaurians to support socialism even more, so Chawosaurian socialists are weary of making the similar mistake with futuristic science, hoping to dodge backlash from Chawosaurians.

Chawosaurians dislike space colonization and robots because of strong fear and paranoia that they could overpower or corrupt the human race and bring economic inequality. Technology, when becomes robotic, does tent to put people out of work, and moving to space colonies will likely be crazily expensive, meaning only wealthy members of society can afford a home on a space colony and governments will be more attracted to investing into space colonies more than Planet Earth based on economic class lines. The Chawosaurian anti-socialist movement, partly united under the Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party led by Wendell Rawlings Burton, see a realigning opportunity to take a stand against space colonization and robotization, which will surely attract working class Chawosaurians, the traditional base of Chawosaurian socialists. Chawosaurian farmers were warned that they will be overtaxed and overworked but underpaid in the future to aid the food supplies of the space exploration effort, and a movement to the right could be foreseen.

### Surging Backlash against the 21st Century

More older Chawosaurians as well as working class Chawosaurians more generally began to show resentment and disgust with the trend of 21st century culture, Chawosaurians begin to show extremely weary of the trends of fashion, politics, music, technology, and so on and so forth. Chawosaurians feel fundamental displeasure with music trends, as it appears like hip hop is taking over everything and Chawosaurians from the older generations see hip hop as evolved as encouraging money and sex, and Chawosaurian women widely complain that the hip hop industry is spreading misogyny for the way women are displayed in hip hop videos and male rappers repeatedly calling women "shawty", making Chawosaurian women feel resentful towards the hip hop industry, and more older Chawosaurians from across the spectrum, many of whom may have somewhat accepted the musical art of hip hop, begin to complain the hip hop as showing off lifestyle and bragging about it and the women, and younger Chawosaurians begin to adapt, similarly to those from the western world.

Chawosaurians also begin to grow exhausted with fashion trends, not liking how people today dress, talk, dance, and so forth. As technology evolves throughout the century, this causes fear among working class Chawosaurians of what is called "technological unemployment" which is when a worker loses his/her job due to being replaced by technology that can do the work, which is more appealing to corporate higherups because organic workers require pay and robotic workers do not require pay, causing corporations to embrace automation because it makes them richer, but it badly disadvantages lower class people because thanks to automation and technological takeover of the employment sector, poverty will be a permanently generational thing. Because of this, working and employed Chawosaurians deeply fear technological unemployment and automation, making this a serious political issue in Chawosauria that Chawosaurian politicians, call of whom are left-wing, have usually ignored the issue.

Chawosaurians begin to show a surging unwelcoming to smart technology such as smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, and their children more obsessive with their technology that it had have an impact on their academic performances, though smart technology have made things easier for teachers, but Chawosaurian parents and legal guardians have grown sick of their children having any access to technology.

Then finally, another fear regarding technology, technology becoming intelligent and turning on humanity. That fear had been ticking up since the last decade of the 20th century but became only a little noticeable in the 2000s, mostly due to movies and TV shows containing robots such as *Robots* (2005), *Skyland* (series: 2005-2007), *My Life as a Teenage Robot* (series: 2003-2005), and then the movie *I, Robot* (2004), where humanoid robots were created to serve humans, but then they turned on humans and tried to take over the world. All of these movies and TV shows, especially I, Robot, escalated Chawosaurian anxieties of smart or intelligent technology.

When the first smartphones arrived in the late 2000s, Chawosaurians were cautiously welcoming, but many were still not amused with their presence. The popularity of smartphones spread like a virus all over the world, but so has anti-technology sentiment all over Chawosauria, then tablets became a thing, also spreading in popularity but maybe not as much as phones, and smart technology evolved to greater advancement throughout the 2010s, making Chawosaurians incredibly weary of their presence. The internet took over every aspect of technology even those that previously didn't need WIFI, such as TVs as they now became smart TVs.

These Chawosaurian sentiments have attributed to the shock results of the 2018 Age of Smartphone Referendum, ultimately making these issues serious.

Wendell Rawlings Burton and the Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party have planned to take advantage of these issues, they begin to criticize hip hop and pointed out that the Chawosaurian Communist Party abandoned the Social Morality Act of 2020, which sought to ban hip hop nationwide. Burton by 2023 began to make a priority to stop corporations from turning into automation, and made an ambitious promise to penalize corporations for putting workers out of work by replacing them with free labor by technology and robots. The Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party begin to become the only party taking technological unemployment seriously. However, General Secretary Linghu Xiaoliang had been fighting with Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker over the direction of the Chawosaurian Communist Party, Linghu had been promoting communist candidates who hold conservative views against Parker's liberal reforms and many of Linghu's candidates hold anti-modernist views while holding anti-religious views, making some Burton allies nervous. Linghu Communists as they are called, or Linghists, are members of the Chawosaurian Communist Party who are traditional communists, opposition to religion, as well as opposition to modernization, and they are agrarians. Linghu Communists are lining up to challenge Parkerian Communists (communists who are progressive) in the 2023 Chawosaurian Communist Party primaries.

### The Rise of Linghu Communists

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Linghu Xiaoliang, incumbent General Secretary of the Empire of Chawosauria and former Imperial Senator from the Senate District of East Asia, felt alienated by his old friend and Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker's progressive approach to his communist rule. Parker enhanced a semi direct democracy and strong human rights into the Imperial Constitution of the Empire of Chawosauria in 2022 and 2023. Linghu's version of communism is old school, authoritarianism and only few human rights. Parker was diagnosed with stomach cancer in December 2022 and he received medical attention in early 2023.

### Other Events

The Independents nominated Elmo as their parliamentary leader to draw a line between independence and going by the rules. The Independents justified this joke candidate by saying all parliamentary leaders are jokes and used the nominee of the Youth International Party, known as yippies, of the 1968 U.S. presidential election was a pig named Pigasus to symbolize both Nixon and Humphrey as pro-war pigs during the War in Vietnam. However, this was universally mocked and cast a bad light on the anti-communists. There was division in interpretation of the 2022 French legislative elections, since Chawosaurian politics is becoming more like France's, however unlike Chawosauria, France's legislative elections are inconsistent.

### Presidential Election

Second Round of the 2024 Chawosaurian presidential election