18th Adorian Election

←17th - 28th of February 2020 - 19th→

## BackGround

The **18th Election** was the first general election to be

managed by The Election Commission instead of Ruben The Sole Election Manager. Ahead of this election an amendment was passed turning the position of Election Manager (which was only Ruben) to the Election Commission which is a board of five; 2 lefties, 2 righties, and one admin. Due to parliament not managing to vote on a list which would have then been confirmed by the supreme court, the staff reclaimed control of elections after a 3 day gubernational election delay. In advance for the 8th Presidential election and 18th General election the staff team appointed bot.org, Dylan/Boop and Ruben for The Election Commission.

Following the 17th election the conservatives appointed Dylan/Boop as economic minister. On his first budget proposal he attempted to double the defense budget from 8.5% to 16%, and slashing the science budget from 5% to 2% which failed. The Forum for democracy then requested boop's removal or they would leave the coalition. An amendment was passed creating a cool down period of one week before a law could be repealed. Another amendment was passed shortly, The Land Protection Amendment which was intended to give the people more power by allowing them to own their own homes as it defined property has he who inhabits a piece of land, corporations did not see it this way and evicted all people who were living in rented housing, the president shortly vetoed the amendment. This event exposed a monopoly of the Royal Bush Brothers company which it was revealed to own 83% of the housing market. This lead to a brief attempt of Temporarly nationalizing a banking company owned by Royal Bush Brothers which failed.

In the time that The Forum for democracy threatened to leave the government coalition the conservatives were unworried as The Union Movement was looking into joining the coalition, it was later revealed that stickysoap had deleted Law 192. This lead to Sticky being fired from the position of parliamentary secretary. A new system of viewing passed legislation was then made Ruben in which all passed legislation is now viewable as a google spreadsheet. Near the end of the government term Dr\_Kookoo passed his Legislative Reform Act which extremely revised the legislative process. Currently The Legislative reform act is set to be enacted once the 18th parliament convenes. Eventually FfD left the coalition as they had threatened and The Union Movement took their place in the coalition. Boop/Dylan finished the government term just like had began, as economic minister. A general election debate was held shortly before the election went live. This was the first general election to feature a general election debate since the 15th election as both the 16th and 17th elections did not feature any debate. It was said to have been a poorly moderated debate. The Election links for both the 8th Presidential election and 18th general election went live shortly after the debate at exactly 4:00 pm EST.

Once the vote went up evidence was found of former adorian, seafox sharing the link telling people to vote for Forum for Democracy and The Conservatives. There was also evidence of Link Sharing from The Social Democratic Party. Eventually the Staff decided to not punish anyone. This however lead to the Kicking of Acrid and a Seafox Alt. This time The Social Liberals and Theocratic Oath met the 5% quota. United Workers Front also remembered to submit an MP List this time. The Green Democrats also ran for the first time. These factors lead to large amounts of seats being taken from the major parties. Social Democrats lost 5 seats and dropped by 2.53% yet they became the largest party. At the end of the election 256 votes were counted in total this was a 13.2% increase compared to the last election (226).

## Key Points

* General Election Debates return after being absent during the 16th and 17th elections
* First General Election to use an Election Commission
* Held at the same time as the 8th Presidential Election
* National Left and Labour Alliance ran as one
* Last session of parliament to not use The Legislative Reform Act
* Link sharing ignored
* National Left Deputy Party Leader, LINOM was made party leader shortly after the election
* UWF started in the coalition but switched over to Opposition by the end of the term