ELMO FOR PRIME MINISTER?
Yes! The Independents in the Chawopolis Palace have decided to, what is called a satirical parliamentary leader, to lead them in the 2024 Chawosaurian legislative election cycle!
YOU'RE FUCKING JOKING, RIGHT?
-Nope!
Elmo is officially a candidate for Prime Minister of the Empire of Chawosauria to run against interim Prime Minister Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII of the supermajority ruling Chawosaurian Communist Party and opposition parliamentary leaders Sydney Lucas Webster of the Social Democratic Workers' Labour Party who ironically allies with the Communists, Wendell Rawlings Burton of the center to center-right Chawosaurian Revolutionary Party, and others.
The Independents' intention is to retain their independence from a leader however the parliamentary system requires them to have a leader, so they drew the two lines together but also as a political message but all the leaders running for Prime Minister are a joke, so why not participate in the joke with a literal joke leader?
What's going on in the Chawosaurian world is that there is widespread dissatisfaction with the Chawosaurian government's execution of the Chawo-Uralic War in hopes to defend a universally unpopular border in the Ural Mountains against local insurgents and Uralic separatists who really do not appreciate a border being on their land. That border is called the Ural Wall and it was set up in 2019 by the Chawosaurian government to divide Eurasia to draw the boundary between two of Chawosauria's Continental Federal Republics being the Federal Republic of Europe and the Federal Republic of Asia as part of the overall Union of Continental Federal Republics, which is the union of 50 U.S. states of Chawosauria.
This isn't the first time that satirical candidates have run. In the United Kingdom, then Prime Minister Theresa May ran for reelection in her constituency during the 2017 general election right next to two strange opponents: Elmo himself and Lord Buckethead. During the 1968 presidential election in the United States, the so-called Youth International Party, or Yippies, nominated a pig for President during their protest at the Democratic Party's national convention to select their nominee for President, that pig was named Pigasus, and it was a protest action against what they saw as "warmongering pigs" running for President, referring to both Republican Richard Nixon and Democrat Hubert Humphrey, both candidates or "pigs" that supported the war in Vietnam.
Wonder two things about that pig: first: whatever happened to that pig?; and two, how many votes did that pig even get? It'd be nice to say zero votes, but don't be surprised to be told that there are Americans or just anybody in general who would rather vote for a pig than a politician.
People do hate politicians and governments do screw up royally whether it is getting their own country involved in a war that they have no business fighting in and the people of the country you're invading intending to free them fearing and hating you as invaders instead of greeting you as liberators; or a government putting a border on someone's territory seen as more of a land grabbing invasion than just government business! So why not choose satirically and pop culture characters instead, right?
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