Flekygate

Flekygate was a major scandal in MHoC, taking space in mid-late 2017, involving major illegal activity, duping and the further tarnishment of the Libertarian Party.

## Flekygate I

In June 2017, then led by \_gcx, the House was shocked by the Libertarian Party's performance in the General Election. Having been expected by most to return in a mediocre fashion, the party finished marginally ahead of the Conservative Party, of which it had developed a fierce rivalry with, and the Liberal Party with a total of 9 seats. However, this did not last long. It was soon discovered that the new Deputy Leader, fleky6910 (responsible for a large recruiting spree), had broken the rules; proof was released highlighting that he had attempted to recruit a member of the Conservative Party after the legal point. Despite having released a defiant statement refusing to give up his role, it came to no avail - shortly after writing the statement, he was forced to resign following the launch of a Vote of No Confidence in his role spearheaded by joecphillips.

Speaker PetrosAC subsequently released a thread in which he took 2 seats away from the party. Originally planning to send the seats to a by-election, he swiftly changed his mind, allocating the seats to the Labour Party and the Conservative Party. In spite of the resulting stark opposition from the party, and the eventual further opposition from members across the house, he did not go back on his ruling to take 2 seats away from the party. Perhaps spurred by opposition from his dealing with the scandal dubbed as Flekygate, he soon succumbed to a Vote of No Confidence, spurring an election for a new Speaker. Following fleky6910's resignation and departure from the house, and Connor27's appointment as his replacement, the party planned to quietly move past the post-election drama that tarnished its already controversial reputation further.

## Flekygate II

The party quickly returned to the negative attention of the House, after it was discovered that the party covered up its knowledge that fleky6910, under the alias of F.V.Wieser, had secretly returned. Not only condemned for a lack of transparency, it was discovered that he had used both accounts at the same time at one point, again breaking rules. \_gcx vowed to pursue essential reform, yet his response to the crisis was overshadowed by the revelation that ex-Leader Gladstone1885 posted a fake statement on his behalf, claiming that \_gcx was dealing with family issues. Controversy remained, following a statement from Acting Speaker cranbrook\_aspie that explained the reasoning for the punishment of Gladstone1885 and Connor27 for advising fleky6910 about his dupe account. His statement was shown to not have a legitimate basis, causing the punishments to be delayed until Rakas21 won in the election to replace PetrosAC. In spite of this, the confusion led to him resigning his role, leading to a third Deputy Leader election since the party's founding earlier in the year.

Unknown to the House and having only joined the party just prior to the General Election, Saunders16 surprised many by prevailing in the Deputy Leader election. Without its controversial members, and following the departure of whistleblower joecphillips, the party reclined into a position of normality and a contrasting, surprising level of silence. Less than a month later, following \_gcx's admission that he lacked the same level of interest in the House, he resigned from his role as Leader, concluding Saunders16's rise to power, who won the resultant election without opposition.