2009 Malgravean Emergency General Election

The aftermath of the 2009 Epping Metro Bombing and the resignation of Nikola Tesla from the role of Prime Minister triggered the calling of the third Emergency General Election in the countries history. It proved surprising as the Conservative Action Party failed to capitalise on the early instability of the Progressive Unity Party who under the new leadership of Rachel Berry managed to keep onto the current majority of seats.

Election Issues

Internal security proved to be one of the largest issues in the early campaign trail with the 2009 Epping Metro Bombing providing the opposition parties with much ammunition to use questioning the administrations success in using the armed forces against the various insurgent groups operating in the country. News that the perpetrators and planners of the terrorist attack in Epping had either been arrested and killed by members of the security service however quickly evened out the battle and proved to be the end of the issue as a main campaign talking point.

Reports of continued economic growth and strong trade with the international market proved to be the ammunition the Progressive Unity Party needed to push the issue of economic and foreign affairs into the forefront with members of the Conservative Action Party still split on the speed to open the country into the international community and economics being one of the weaker issues of the Malgravean Green Party. Economics continued to be one of the most important issues of this election campaign with foreign affairs later taking more of a backburner whilst still providing some ammunition for political ads and questions in following political debates.

In the latter stages of the campaign the election was focused around the perceived lack of experience of the current Temporary Prime Minister Rachel Berry and her ability to effectively govern the country, with the Progressive Unity Party moving quickly to defend their leader alongside political allies the Malgravean Green Party who by the parties own charter refuse to take part in directly offending party leaders.

Campaigns

Progressive Campaign

Following the resignation of Nikola Tesla the PUP was faced with a growing stability crisis, the loss of such an experienced leader and the appointment of a virtual unknown compounded fears that the party would face a collapse in the polls. Faced with a crisis in confidence from members within the party Temporary Prime Minister Rachel Berry sought to immediately solidify her control of the party and maintain the popular voter base by reshuffling the current cabinet, maintaining proven cabinet members whilst replacing others (who had made doubts of the PM's ability to lead) with popular members of the party she had worked with in the past during her time as Minister of Transport.

Conservative Campaign

The Conservative Unity Party ran an extremely aggressive opening campaign, with the party blaming the terrorist attack on the inefficiency of the countries counter-terrorist units and the inability of the Progressive Party to coordinate a military campaign against insurgent organisations. The Conservative Party was divided on several issues and several public arguments broke out over the speed of de-isolation and the scale of privatizations something which drained the energy out of the campaign and nearly forced the resignation of party leader Harold Griffin.

Green Party

The Green Party moved to capitalise on its success over the Technology Party in the 2000 General Election (Malgrave) with the party claiming that aggressive military action against insurgent groups inside the country had with the recent terrorist attack proven to be ineffective and instead attempting to stop the recruitment of new members through anti-poverty and radicalisation schemes should be the response.

Economically the Green Party called for a reduction in the size of the research colony and a cessation of the planned infrastructure construction. In Foreign Affairs the Party called for closer relations with regional allies and perceived civilised nations like Crystal Spires whilst calling for reduced activity of the Royal Navy and the cancellation of Operation Infinite Reach

Technology Party

Disastrous results in the 2000 General Election (Malgrave) nearly lead to the destruction of the Technology Party, following a leadership change however the Party sought to re-take some of the seats it had lost. The Technology Party started an aggressive campaign claiming that a lack of technological progress in certain counter-terrorism units and public infrastructure had created a "ticking time bomb" whose timer was dictated only by the competence and activity of terrorist cells. In foreign policy the Technology Party changed its previous position instead deciding to support the countries entrance into the international community although it also called for a reduced presence by the Royal Navy however unlike the Green Party it called for an increase in support for the research colony.

Economically the Party supported increasing economic ties with both regional allies and countries regarded by the Foreign Ministry as civilised partners, changed for its previous budget was the maintenance of current tax rates and a further reduction in administration, military and environmental spending in order to pay for increased R&D and further construction of the research colony alongside other planned colonies.

Other Parties

The Malgravean Socialist Party focused its campaign towards the re-nationalisation of business partially privatised by the government in the 1950's. During its party conference the MSP introduced focusing opening relations with socialist and communist nations whilst ending relations with nations that mistreat the worker like the Greater Pony Herd. The Party continued the idea of ending the countries non-aligned foreign policy and directly promoting like-minded political candidates in countries like Crystal Spires, Kouralia and Breheim

The Future Party stepped into controversy when it claimed all mainstream political parties were partly to blame for the deaths in the 2009 Epping Metro Bombing. The Party blamed the recent increase in insurgent activities on both military incompetence and the arrival of foreigners specifically non-humans. The Future Party claimed that deportation of non-humans, increased aggressive action against known insurgent supporting villages and a larger colony would ensure both economic success and victory in the long-standing war against communism.

The Malgravean Agricultural Coalition itself stepped into controversy when political leader Andrew Fabray personally insulted members of the PUP government calling them "immoral" and the "reason for terrorist activity". The statements caused major anger across the political spectrum and resulted in the party being blacklisted by the nations media which effectively ended the parties campaign.

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