2022 Chawosaurian Senate special election in East Asia

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The **2022 Chawosaurian Imperial Senate by-election in the Senate District of East Asia** was held on Friday, March 4, 2022, alongside a similar by-election in the Senate District of the British Isles. A by-election, it is to replace the retiring Imperial Senator Linghu Xiaoliang, who will become General Secretary of the Empire of Chawosauria by April 1, 2022, to replace incumbent General Secretary Zeeshan A. Musabekov. The election is to elect a member of the Imperial Senate of the Empire of Chawosauria to represent the Senate District of East Asia.

Conservative Fusion candidate Jack Teng has won the Imperial Senate seat of the Senate District of East Asia by a landslide victory, winning 58.1% of the popular vote, defeating Chiang Zhan (21.3%), Genghis Dansranbilegiin (11.3%), and Nariaki Okada (1.1%). Chiang Zhan was endorsed by Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker and his defeat was a blow to Parker, his administration, and the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government. Dansranbilegiin ran a Mongolian nationalist campaign, and garnered the whole Mongolian vote, though Chawosaurians of Inner Mongolia weren't attracted to Dansranbilegiin's nationalist message. Despite defeat, Genghis Dansranbilegiin emerged as a worthy successor to Shang Jong Parker or Sydney Lucas Webster, and a future leader of the Socialist Coalition for his left-wing pragmatism between the Chawosaurian Communist Party and the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party, though was never endorsed by either of them because of racism. The Chawosaurian Communist Party suffered an internal resistance from Chawosaurian communists who were members of the Japanese Communist Party; Chawosaurian communists in China and Chawosaurian communists in Japan fought over each other over the Nanjing Massacre and Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker's China policy. Nariaki Okada received 1.1% of the popular vote and despite his own loss, he also emerged as a potential successor to Shang Jong Parker. By losing the Senate seat, the Chawosaurian Communist Party saw their Senate majority fall from 77-23 down to 76-23-1, but with the conservatives taking another seat in Britain from the Social Democrats, that whole Senate delegation changes to 76-22-2.

In the campaign, Conservative Fusion candidate Jack Teng ran a Chawosauria First! campaign, focusing on the concerns of the Chawosaurian community in Mainland China, issues such as the Chawo-Uralic War, the impact of iTech and popular culture on their community, and Teng minimized the left's attempts to tout the astonishing accomplishments of the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government on climate change with the Chawosaurian Green New Deal, COVID-19 with the War on Coronavirus and the 2020-2023 Chawosauria COVID-19 Lockdown, and democratization with the Imperial Constitution of the Empire of Chawosauria, by supporting these initiatives in an effort to make them sound less partisan and make the left touting these accomplishments appear more like desperate diversion tactics.

The Chawosaurian left-wing ruling class had fractured in their attempts to hold the Senate District of East Asia, the Chawosaurian Communist Party endorsed the Chinese Communist Party, which was a contrary move given that the Chawosaurian Communist Party had been attempting to distance themselves from the Chinese regime due to its role in the COVID-19 pandemic that the Chawosaurian Communist Party supported the boycotting of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing; this endorsement by the Chawosaurian Communist Party as well as their contradiction on the Chinese government angered and appalled Chawosaurian communists outside of China and North Korea, resulting in Chawosaurian members of the Japanese Communist Party to run their own candidate in resistance and Chawosaurian communists in Mongolia to endorse the Chawosaurian nominee of the Mongolian People's Party. The Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party has not endorse a party but are flirting with the idea of endorsing the Mongolian People's Party's Genghis Dansranbilegiin, but there are many social democratic candidates scattered around the Senate District, creating the likelihood of vote splitting, making a social democratic victory highly unlikely.

The Chawo-Ukraine Airlift Crisis changed the course of the election against the Chawosaurian Communist Party, Jack Teng gained the ultimate upper hand in this election and the Conservative Fusion won the endorsement from the Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party. More and more Chinese Chawosaurians now favor a conservative turnaround in this election, which spells serious warning for the Chawosaurian left in the upcoming 2024 Chawosaurian legislative elections.

Jack Teng blew up the election with 58.1% of the popular vote, easily getting elected to the Imperial Senate of the Empire of Chawosauria, and defeating all infighting left-wing opponents, who each got below 22% of the popular vote. Chiang Zhan scored 21.3% of the popular vote and fared well in much of North China, and solidly won Northeast China, and dominated North Korea, and Genghis Dansranbilegiin won all of Mongolia with 11.3% district-wide. Nariaki Okada won no division in the Senate District but scored 1.1% of the popular vote district-wide.

The whole situation of this by-election drew analogies to the 2017 United States Senate special election in Alabama, where Republican U.S. President Donald Trump chooses U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions to be his Attorney General, which threw his Senate seat up for a special election called by the U.S. State of Alabama heavily reigned by the Alabama Republican Party.

Chinese Chawosaurians felt alienated by Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker using the COVID-19 pandemic as justification for distancing himself from China, especially Parker's unpopular handling of the 2022 Winter Olympics by supporting a boycott, because Shang Jong Parker feared that the Chawosaurian Communist Party's association with China after its role in the COVID-19 pandemic could harm the Communist Party's chances in the 2024 Chawosaurian elections, but in the process making Chinese Chawosaurians feeling it as a betrayal after all these many years helping Shang Jong Parker kickstarting his political career from his time in the Imperial Parliament to Prime Minister to Supreme Leader from 1975 to 2019, Overall Chawosaurians in the Senate District of East Asia also saw the Parker administration's perceived failures to go hard for communism, and felt alienated by the Chawosaurian left-wing infighting. Chawosaurians in South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Japan voted for Teng because of anti-Chinese sentiment generally because of COVID-19, but also because of other issues long before COVID, such as memories of the Hong Kong protests back in 2019 amongst Hong Kong Chawosaurians, China's intimidation of Taiwan to be part of China, China's historically unfriendly relations with Japan, and China's support for South Korea's archenemy, North Korea.

Despite Teng's victory, the Chawosaurian Communist Party refused to seat Teng, a similar tactic they used against Stanislav Ilyich Balakhnin when he won a 2021 by-election in a Parliamentary district in Moscow. By refusing to seat Teng, he remains his position as "Senator-elect" even after the day he was supposed to take office on April 1, 2022, and with the Conservative Fusion having no real seat-leverage and the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party mostly in agreement with the Communist Party as part of their role in the Socialist Coalition, conservatives don't have the seat power required to fight for Teng to be seated.

## Background

Imperial Senator Linghu Xiaoliang resigned on March 31, 2022 when he was nominated by Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker to become General Secretary of the Empire of Chawosauria in February 2022, thus triggering a special election to replace Linghu ahead of his departure.

## Process

It will be a plurality system, with multiple candidates nominated by parties all over the entire region of East Asia due to lack of timing to do a two-round style election.

## Results

Jack Teng won the special election in a landslide victory of 58.1% of the popular vote.

## Aftermath

Chiang Zhan in his concession speech blamed his historic loss on Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker, and the rest of the Socialist Coalition have followed suit in declaring Shang Jong Parker a toxin for the brand of left-wing politics in Chawosauria and worries for the incoming outcome of the 2022 Chawosaurian Senate special election in the British Isles arose as a result of this horrible election result.

## See also

* By-elections to the 25th Chawopolis Palace
	+ 2022 Chawosaurian Senate special election in the British Isles