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Just reminding everyone: Karakas has a unicameral Assembly with 100 members. Both members and the President are directly elected. (No electoral college for us! Yee-ha! Yee-ha!)
The current Assembly is one of the more settled ones we've had recently, with five different parties represented. It looks something like this:
Karakas Nationalist Party - 58
Labor Party - 36
Green Party - 4
Farmers' Electoral Council - 1
Socialist Alliance - 1
They say war is good for nationalist sentiments, but the left-wing parties have been hammering at Djordjevic and the nationalists over Azan. Polls have just closed, and the count should be released soon.
A review of the most important parties participating in the election and their platforms:
Karakas Nationalist Party
This has been the strongest in the late 1990s and, seemingly, the party that led Karakas through many of the important events of its history. Kyralia seceded from a Nationalist government, for example. The Nationalists incorporate politicians (and voters) from every part of the right-leaning spectrum. As such, they have the advantage that at least some of their policies will probably appeal to at least a few voters, but they have been embarrassed in the past by extreme religious right elements.
Labor Party
Traditionally the party of poor urban Karakans, the Labor Party has lost votes from voters previously thought to be "hardcore" supporters to the Nationalists, spurred by the education and crime reduction initiatives of Valentina Nurhaliza and then Jose Djordjevic. It remains strong, however, due to the strong role played by the labor unions of the west coast. Most Labor Assembly members supported Karakan involvement in the Azan war, but opposed increasing fishing quotas in the Marshall Islands, upgrading of the nation's nuclear power plants, and entering the League of Armed Neutrality.
Green Party
"Our land and our environment are paramount," reads the Green Party charter, "and we shall fight any battle, make any sacrifice, to protect them." Like many environmental parties, however, a large number of its followers are rich. The Green Party has taken over the championing of ecological issues from Labor's left wing. Staunchly anti-war and anti-business.
Socialist Alliance
The Socialist Alliance's raison d'etre was once reconciliation with Kyralia - and reorganization of Karakan society in the Kyralian fashion. Now that reconciliation has come, only the second goal remains. Unfortunately for them, the good economy and increasing standards of living have undermined some of their positions.
Farmers' Electoral Council
The FEC's platform is narrow and almost apocalyptic: to shift power in Karakan society away from the cities and to the country. It is virulently anti-free trade, advocating punishing tariffs on all foreign products, especially agriculture. It has also been accused of harboring neo-Nazis, but the allegations remain unproven.
Karakan Technocracy
A party founded by industrialists and dot-com CEOs, Technocracy has contacts with the Cerooan Technologists and had some with the last pre-war Azani government. They own a newspaper, @11 T3H N3WZ U N33D, which has a slightly larger circulation than you might expect.
Hammerheim National Council
The HNC was formed in the 1950s as a autonomy / secessionist movement for the traditionally rebellious northern province of Hammerheim. It has been banned three times since then, but later reinstated after being vetted by government secret services (as recently declassified documents will testify). The recent reorganization of provincial rights has made redundant certain of its positions, but it retains a small core of loyal pro-provincial autonomy voters.
(I shall post results later when I decide how I want to calculate them.
)
Just reminding everyone: Karakas has a unicameral Assembly with 100 members. Both members and the President are directly elected. (No electoral college for us! Yee-ha! Yee-ha!)
The current Assembly is one of the more settled ones we've had recently, with five different parties represented. It looks something like this:
Karakas Nationalist Party - 58
Labor Party - 36
Green Party - 4
Farmers' Electoral Council - 1
Socialist Alliance - 1
They say war is good for nationalist sentiments, but the left-wing parties have been hammering at Djordjevic and the nationalists over Azan. Polls have just closed, and the count should be released soon.
A review of the most important parties participating in the election and their platforms:
Karakas Nationalist Party
This has been the strongest in the late 1990s and, seemingly, the party that led Karakas through many of the important events of its history. Kyralia seceded from a Nationalist government, for example. The Nationalists incorporate politicians (and voters) from every part of the right-leaning spectrum. As such, they have the advantage that at least some of their policies will probably appeal to at least a few voters, but they have been embarrassed in the past by extreme religious right elements.
Labor Party
Traditionally the party of poor urban Karakans, the Labor Party has lost votes from voters previously thought to be "hardcore" supporters to the Nationalists, spurred by the education and crime reduction initiatives of Valentina Nurhaliza and then Jose Djordjevic. It remains strong, however, due to the strong role played by the labor unions of the west coast. Most Labor Assembly members supported Karakan involvement in the Azan war, but opposed increasing fishing quotas in the Marshall Islands, upgrading of the nation's nuclear power plants, and entering the League of Armed Neutrality.
Green Party
"Our land and our environment are paramount," reads the Green Party charter, "and we shall fight any battle, make any sacrifice, to protect them." Like many environmental parties, however, a large number of its followers are rich. The Green Party has taken over the championing of ecological issues from Labor's left wing. Staunchly anti-war and anti-business.
Socialist Alliance
The Socialist Alliance's raison d'etre was once reconciliation with Kyralia - and reorganization of Karakan society in the Kyralian fashion. Now that reconciliation has come, only the second goal remains. Unfortunately for them, the good economy and increasing standards of living have undermined some of their positions.
Farmers' Electoral Council
The FEC's platform is narrow and almost apocalyptic: to shift power in Karakan society away from the cities and to the country. It is virulently anti-free trade, advocating punishing tariffs on all foreign products, especially agriculture. It has also been accused of harboring neo-Nazis, but the allegations remain unproven.
Karakan Technocracy
A party founded by industrialists and dot-com CEOs, Technocracy has contacts with the Cerooan Technologists and had some with the last pre-war Azani government. They own a newspaper, @11 T3H N3WZ U N33D, which has a slightly larger circulation than you might expect.
Hammerheim National Council
The HNC was formed in the 1950s as a autonomy / secessionist movement for the traditionally rebellious northern province of Hammerheim. It has been banned three times since then, but later reinstated after being vetted by government secret services (as recently declassified documents will testify). The recent reorganization of provincial rights has made redundant certain of its positions, but it retains a small core of loyal pro-provincial autonomy voters.
(I shall post results later when I decide how I want to calculate them.
)
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