The Communist Party's 2024 Shine
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| A gif showing the electoral maps of 2019 and 2024 |
On Friday, March 1, 2024, the Chawosaurian Communist Party gained seats in both the Imperial and Federal Assemblies, maintaining supermajority control of both of these assemblies.
In the Imperial Assembly, the Communist Party gained 93 seats, bolstering their supermajority from 893-107 to 986-014. In the popular vote, the Communists won 96% of the popular vote, which easily enabled Prime Minister MacAlasdair to win reelection.
In the Federal Assembly, which is less democratic, but the Communist Party bolstered their supermajority, from 5,132-868 to 5,993-0007, a Communist gain of 861 seats.
So here are the key takeaways from the midterms.
Shang Jong Parker gains political legitimacy
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| Shang Jong Parker in 2021 |
Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker will join three of his predecessors who had their first or only midterm: Johnathan Alexandria in 1905, Timothy Max Roosevelt in 1979, and Degotoga K. Atagulkalu in 2017, to have gained seats.
A partisan victory it is, but not an ideological one. Parker's supporters, known as Parkerians, were defeated in primaries by Communists who do not like his liberal reforms. Which means Parker will have a hard time jamming his preferred policies through. But Parker had already implemented a significant majority of his goals, so his position in the next parliamentary term would be much easier for everybody, including Parker, than everyone realizes. Parker will have little demands, and the Communists in the next government will have more demands, and Parker would only make small deals.
Prime Minister Jonathan MacAlasdair makes history that Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII couldn't
Prime Minister Jonathan L. MacAlasdair VIII has now won three Chawopolis Palace elections by bolstering margins in all three of them, something that never happens before in Chawosaurian history.
In three elections, MacAlasdair gained seats, boosted his popular vote result, and won three elections in landslide victories. Never in Chawosaurian history has a Prime Minister been able to do this.
But keep in mind, MacAlasdair's first elections were in 1999 and 2005, that was when he was Prime Minister for the first time from 2000 to 2009, and after a 12-year-off, MacAlasdair became Prime Minister again in 2022, which never happened before in Chawosaurian history that a former Prime Minister regains his or her job. And get this, MacAlasdair has never once lost an election. MacAlasdair's departure from the Prime Ministership in 2009 wasn't because of an election loss or term limits, it is because he retired.
Chawosauria is still a left-wing nation
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| Timothy Max Roosevelt (left) and Shang Jong Parker (right) are the main leaders of the Chawosaurian left-wing era (1945-present) |
Another thing that was so clear is that the Chawosaurian world hasn't switched ideological loyalties because they were not comfortable into doing so, primarily thanks to an ongoing trend of conservatism looking to far-right politics since the 2010s, which only discouraged Chawosaurians from trending away from socialism.
Events such as the Israel-Hamas conflict, the economic inequality and inflation of the post-COVID days in the west, escalating climate change such as the wildfires in Canada the previous year, the mass attention to Queen Elizabeth II's passing, and the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, have all reminded Chawosaurians why socialism is popular in the Chawosaurian world in the first place.
Bottom Line
The 2024 election results showed that the Chawosaurian people may be frustrated with the course of the 2020s decade, but it didn't mean they were interested in switching horses politically.
The Communist Party's opponents are just bad at connecting with the average Chawosaurian and the concerns and morals that the average Chawosaurian has. Incumbency played a role, and a universally respected elderly statesman like Jonathan Lachlan MacAlasdair VIII can never be beaten in any election in Chawosauria.
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