2040 Libirachi National Congress Election

The **2040 Libirachi National Congress Election** was held on Monday 0ctober 1, 2040 across the Fox Dynasty to elect members of congress for the 32nd Libirachi National Congress. The election was the last held during the presidency of Karyn Voor and marked the beginning of a power-sharing balance between the Libirachi Revolutionary Party and the COMPNOR Political Bureau following President Voor's total overhaul of the LRP during the 2030s. The election was also the last to be held in the Libirachi Administrative Zone and the last to be held under the tiered system of election introduced in the 2025 constitution.

Following the Shanghai Pact's victory during the Conquest of Africa in 2039, the dissolution of the Bovido Imperium, and the installation of numerous puppet states across Africa, President Karyn Voor openly announced the start of a presidential transition of power and a decision to step down as president at the next election in October 2040, though Voor retained her role as head of COMPNOR and it's political branch. As part of this move, in March 2038 Angelica Rivera was elected as the head of the Libirachi Revolutionary Party, whilst being appointed to the newly resurrected title of vice president. Despite the leadership of the Revolutionary party now being distinct from that of the COMPNOR Political Bureau, the party remained severely restricted in autonomy following President Voor's culling of the party during the 2030s, and the two political entities remained deeply entwined both in policy and structure.

Elections were held in every province as the culmination of a multi-month election process; elections to local town councils began on June 1, 2040, with the members of the town councils selecting approximately 20 members to represent the town at a regional congress. Between June 20, and July 10, 2040, the regional congresses elected approximately 100 members each to serve a 4 year term on a sector congress, representing around 10-15 different regions/states in the regime. In turn, on October 1, 2040 each of the 15 sector congresses elected approximately 200 members to serve in the Libirachi National Congress for a 5 year term in office as part of multi-member constituencies. Out of the 2980 seats, 51 were reserved for military officials, whilst the dominance of the Revolutionary party and the COMPNOR Political Bureau across all local levels of government allowed the two to control the outcome of the elections. As a result of the elections, the Revolutionary party made modest gains of 485 seats and became the largest party in the national congress, whilst the COMPNOR Political Bureau made a moderate loss of 465 seats, partially spurred by local bureaucrats seeking to gain favour with the new government after COMPNOR president Karyn Voor announced her intention to stand down and nominate Revolutionary party leader Angelica Rivera as her successor.

On October 7, 2040, the Thirty Second Libirachi National Congress convened for the first time in the Hall of Revolution in Beijing. As part of the first session of the new legislature, the congress re-elected Eleija Longwood as chairwoman of the National Congress, alongside a new executive of presiding officers and party whips. With neither the Revolutionary Party of COMPNOR Political Bureau receiving enough seats to govern alone, the two established a legislative coalition government with support from the Imperial Army Political Corps, led by Grand General Qi Jianguo. Following the election of a new congressional executive, Chairwoman Eleija Longwood convened the new congress to hold a presidential election to replace President Karyn Voor following her decision to step down; in the subsequent election, Vice President Angelica Rivera and business secretary Damien Rightly were elected as president and vice president respectively.

During the 32nd National Congress, the Rivera administration initiated a series of constitutional committees with the intention of increasing the size of the legislative branch, introducing 300 proportionally elected congresspeople, and removing the ban on regional parties achieving national representation. Similarly, in January 2041, secretary of state Lina Kassan introduced legislation into the congress that would dissolve the Libirachi Administrative Zone and replace it with a series of semi-independent commonwealths with representatives of the Libirachi empress as their head of state, akin to the constitutional arrangement of the Commonwealth of Greater Ruthenia.