100th Adorian Election

←99th - 22nd of May 2023 - 101st→

## 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 popular vote for the first time since the 95th General Election.

## Background

On May 9th 2023, the 99th government formed consisting of the APM, KAB, PRP, CSM. They unexpectedly had Arjona returning as Chancellor despite KAB being smaller than the APM in the 99th Assembly.

### Renaissance

On May 8th 2023, Matthew V would return to roleplay for the first time since his retirement on April 22nd 2021. On this day results to the 99th Adorian election would be released and an abnormal 5,146 messages would be sent this day by far the most messages sent in Adoria ever since the lawridoria schism in December 2022. In the next few days Based Autocrat, Jimmy Mahfety, Daniel Index, MarceL, and Lemon would all return to Adoria. A renaissance of activity would begin as many joined back in anticipation of the 100th Adorian election. A total of 32 bills would be proposed in the 99th Assembly.

### Government Shutdown

On May 8th 2023, the government would propose the Economic Revision Act of 2023 which would have overhauled Adoria's progressive tax structure in favor of flat taxes. It would fail with 66.67% against. On May 16th 2023, Treasury Secretary Zedong would issue an executive order suspending all non-essential expenses of the government. This would be due to discovery that the federal debt had exceeded 40% of Adoria's GDP which was unknowingly exceeding the debt ceiling established by the Economic Reform Act passed in December 2022.

In response the government shutdown, Secretary Zedong would propose the *Freedom of Our Financial Market* which would privatise commercial banking and credit card services. It would fail with 64.71% against it. He would also propose the *Economic Crisis Avoidance Act* which would raise the debt ceiling from a 40% debt ratio to a 60% ratio with a temporary 100% ratio for the next 3 years. This bill would also fail with 53.66% against. The SDP would criticize the shutdown as an attempt to hold the economy hostage in order to pass their agenda. On May 17th 2023, the SDP's Sheev Valkory would propose a repeal of the Economic Reform Act removing the debt ceiling. This E*conomic Crisis Prevention Act* would pass with 71.79% in favor. The next day Secretary Zedong would announce the shutdown was now ended due to the passed law and spending would resume as usual.

### The Euro Question

Now that Adoria had joined the EU a 2-year transition to join the eurozone had begun. In stop the adoption of the euro the KAB would propose the *Save the Lira Act* which would stop the transition and preserve the lira. It would pass 28-27 but would be vetoed by President Earthly due to the law's attempt to unilaterally amend an international treaty. On May 14th 2023, the transition would be complete and the Euro would be the official currency of Adoria. In response to criticisms the KAB would propose the *Our nation our laws Act* which would establish a supremacy clause putting Adorian law above international laws whenever they contradicted each other. It would fail with 53.33% against.

### An Active Assembly

The CSM would propose legislation such as the *John Money Sucks Act* which repealed the Gender Recognition Act and restored the *Defense of Sanity Act* which bans adults from coercing children to alter their gender. The CSM's other legislation would consist of the following:

* Deuteronomy Act - a law to expire all debts owed if not paid off within 7 years. Failed with 83.87% against.
* Lex Media Culturae Publicae - created extensive regulations and oversight over the free press while banning the media from promoting pre-marital sex, masturbation, porn, or sexual promiscuity. 63.64% would vote against but PMA would allow the bill to pass.
* Lex Educationem Restitutio - first proposed in the 94th Assembly. Requires every school to have a prayer room, created a system of school parliaments, banned library books that promote homosexuality, and required a portrait of Based Autocrat and cross to be hung in every classroom. It would fail with 60.61% against.
* Lex Interrete Salutem - banned snapchat, tumblr, porn, dating apps, youtube shorts, instagram reels in Adoria. 65.63% would vote against but PMA would allow the bill to pass.

The APM would propose the Presidential Freedom Amendment which would allow the President to join a political party but the bill would narrowly fail to reach 2/3rds with only 65.31% in favor. In an effort to gain leftwing support the APM would follow up with a Governmental Freedom Amendment that allowed both the President and Chief Justice to join a political party but this would be at the expense of KAB support who refused to repeal the KAB law, *Restoration of the Nonpartisan Act*. The GFA would fail with only 60.78% in favor. For the time being President Earthly would be stuck as an independent squashing his plans of rejoining the APM within his first week in office. The SDP would propose the *The Justices Liberation Amendment* which would allow Justices to be MNAs again and allow the CJ to be in a political party but this bill would fail with only 63.04% in favor.

## Results

On May 22nd 2023, the 100th Adorian election would begin and conclude the next day. The election posting would be a reference to a mock up image from September 2021 that depicted the 100th Adorian election. After a 17-hour wait results would be released on May 24th 2023. The election threshold would be temporarily removed so that all parties could be in the extra special 100th Assembly. This election would see a turnout of **19.00%**. At 129 votes this would be the highest turnout of any of the last 27 general elections. On May 29th 2023, the 5th EU election results would be retroactively announced with the GE100 results.

## Government Formation

The idea of an extra special festive formation for the 100th government had been long conceived such as the pre-mature 92nd government formed under Blueblaze under fears it could have been the final government of Adoria. For the 100th government a similar idea would arise again. Bossman and Aurelius Barres would both be interested in themselves being Chancellor while Johannes was also considered as a technocratic choice due to being active enough and the 1st Prime Minister post-sierpininuke. All debate on the possible 100th gov Chancellor would vanish once Matthew V returned to roleplay after 2 years as he was the only obvious choice. He would pre-emptively communicate his plans do party leaders on forming the first government holding every political party. All would agree without any significant organized opposition. All secretaries would be picked by Matthew V himself expect for the Vice Chancellor who was switched from Seafox to Jimmy Mahfety due to KAB's desire to enter a new chapter for the party. Just 30 minutes after results were released parties would begin consenting. Within 5 hours of the release of results, President Masterson would officially announce the formation of the 100th government consisting of the SDP, KAB, PP, APM, CSM, PRP, ACI, and ALRP. This would be the first government to consist of 8 parties breaking a record set by the 1st government nearly 4 years ago which had 6 coalition members. This would also be the 3rd time the SDP ever formed a government with the Mainstream Conservative Party, the second being the 63rd Government 18 months ago.

## See Also

* 99th Adorian Election
* 101st Adorian Election
* Voter Turnout