113th Adorian Election

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## Electoral System

*Further information:* AES explanatory doc*,* PMA explanatory doc

The National Assembly elects all of her 85 seats in a Simulated and Popular Vote hybrid in which the election schedule uses a 4:1 ratio of AES to Popular Vote. This election will use AES with the next 1 also using AES.

The main component of the AES is the popular vote which comprises 40% or more while the other 60% or less is simulated based on other factors such as propaganda, party activity, Party member notability, bills proposed, etc composing the rest of the electorate. At the very most AES accounts for 60% of seats which serves as a bonus system for activity but if these AES seats were not earned due to inactivity throughout the term then they are reimbursed to be popular vote seats. The AES is overseen by Matthew V. Independent Candidates function outside of the AES and only require 1/85th (1.18%) of the Popular Vote.

## Results

On January 18th 2023, the 113th Adorian election would begin and conclude the next day. It had originally been scheduled for January 19th 2024 21:00 EST but was released 37 hours early on accident before being quickly deleted. The election then began later that day at January 18th 2024 22:00 EST despite still being 23 hours early. After a 29-hour wait results would be released on January 21st 2024. Many would be surprised to see CPA perform so well. Lucius Vorenus himself, along with the Adoria Times™ and Sweet Citrus Today™ had all predicted SDP receiving around 10 more seats than the CPA. This is the first time 10 or more political parties were represented in parliament since the 50th National Assembly nearly 3 years ago. M8S and DPP ran on a joint list. Turnout: **20.28%**.

## Government Formation

With results released many expected a CPA-lead government to form but on January 22nd 2024, President Tomi announced the formation of an SDP-GLP-APP minority coalition with SoleSol as Prime Minister; this was a surprise to many. Right-wingers saw it as a power grab by the SDP who only wanted to hold onto power while left-wingers saw it as intense incompetence from the Right for failing to negotiate a majority coalition in the 24-hour window. Results had been released nearly 36 hours ago and the only coalition President Tomi had received was SoleSol's so it was subsequently appointed to caretaker status while a Chancellor confidence vote was scheduled due to it being a minority government. M8S and AL would announce plans to informally act as confidence and supply.

Following this, right-wing parties would begin to take their slow negotiations more seriously only now starting a coalition groupchat. Negotiations for a CPA-DPP-ARP-LPA coalition with F. as an independent, and Lucius Vorenus as PM would be finished less than 12 hours after later with conditions to remain in the EU for the term and support for StarsBees to be elected Libeccian Governor by the NA since the gubernatorial election had tied. With a majority of 44/85 seats, President Tomi would swiftly appoint this new government and dismiss the SoleSol caretaker cabinet, cancelling the pending Chancellor vote.

11 minutes later, Chief Justice Mikoyan would queue APP Leader Hyort's lawsuit suing Lucius Vorenus for violating articles 31 and 35 arguing that the caretaker government could not now be dismissed so easily, perhaps only by a VONC. Comparisons have been drawn to the formations of the 98th and 110th governments which also led to legal challenges. Speaker StarsBees would announce no VOCs or VONCs would occur under his watch until the legal challenge was settled. The Vorenus cabinet would essentially be a caretaker cabinet as its legal status lay in limbo in conflict with the SoleSol cabinet. The last time 2 governments had rivaled each other's legitimacies and tried to exist at the same time had been the 11th, 97th, 98th, 110th, and 111th governments.

Around 8 hours later, Hyort would withdraw his case due to the bad optics of it all and the difficulty the case would present in actually winning. This would leave no solid precedent for the situation as laws often change across the months and since the last cabinet crisis. With all legal challenge now dropped, the Vorenus Cabinet would assume full executive authority and legitimacy with no VOC required as they held a majority of seats. The SoleSol cabinet would peacefully disapparate.

## See Also

* 112th Adorian Election
* 114th Adorian Election
* Voter Turnout