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2018 Kartuz general election

4 October 2018
All 274 seats in the Dorada
Opinion polls
Registered	9,105,832
Turnout	6,893,114 • 75.7% (2.3 pp)
First party Second party Third party   Candidate Mściwój Budisz Wòjtilk Drywa Jiwóna Hirsz Party Change! Liberal Democratic Party Social Democrats of Kartuzia Last election 5.18%, 12 seats 28.10%, 77 seats 37.2%, 102 seats Seats won 82 72 45 Seat change 70 5 57 Popular vote 2,062,419 1,868,033 1,868,033 Percentage 29.92% 27.12% 15.05% Swing 24.74pp 1.98pp 22.15pp   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Candidate Héńk Trzebiatowski Søren Riekowski Zygùszk Kawinska Party Green Party The Narrish Kartuz Home Last election 17.15%, 47 seats 7.23%, 29 seats 1.4%, 1 seats Seats won 39 28 3 Seat change 8 1 2 Popular vote 911,958 453,566 159,230 Percentage 13.23% 6.58% 2.31% Swing 3.92pp 0.65pp 0.91pp
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Prime Minister before election Jiwóna Hirsz SDK–PZ Prime Minister after election Wòjtilk Drywa PLD-SDK–N–PZ

General elections were held in Kartuzia on 4 October 2018 to elect all 274 members of the Dorada. 110 seats were elected using single member districts. The remaining 164 seats were elected from several multi-member constituencies.

The governing Social Democrats of Kartuzia (SDK) saw their worst defeat since 1932 and Prime Minister Jiwóna Hirsz was defeated in her own district but was elected in the Lezrzéka multi-member constituency. The Republican populist Change! (Z) party won the most seats and emerged as the largest party, the first time a party other than the Liberal Democratic Party (PLD) or the SDK had emerged as the largest party in the Dorada. In the aftermath of the election a coalition between the PLD, SDK, The Narrish and the Green Party was agreed to after 6 months of negotiations. The SDK later split with most of it's members defecting to other parties leaving the party without any representation in the Dorada for the first time in it's history.

The election saw more women than ever elected to the Dorada with 98 women elected compared to the 64 elected in 2014.

Background

Following the 2014 elections a coalition between the SDK and PZ had been formed originally led by Elmer Nikolajsen. It was the first time that PZ had entered the Kartuz government and only the second government led by a person of Narrish descent since 1832. Nikolajsen's government promised to cut back on Austerity measures implemented by the previous government only to delay their removal twice.

Nikolajsen clashed with King Fridrëszk VI over proposed reforms to the monarchy. Nikolajsen was an outspoken Republican and had in the past criticised Fridrëszk for spending all of 2009 in X. Members of Nikolajsen's cabinet were also openly antagonistic towards the monarchy. Despite this the cabinet was split nearly 50/50 between supporters of the Monarchy and Republicans.

2015 Kartuz banking crisis

On 22 June 2015, the actions of a Rogue trader caused the collapse of Trzecinski Bank, at the time the largest bank in Kartuzia. The collapse of Trzecinski caused a loss of confidence among the public and a run on the banks led to the collapse of several large banks in Kartuzia within a month. The collapse of the banking sector was blamed on Nikolajsen's government which was criticised for not supporting the banks or trying to prevent a bank run. Nikolajsen faced a vote of no confidence against him which he survived narrowly. Despite this his government's popularity collapsed and Nikolajsen resigned as Prime Minister on 2 February in favour of Jiwóna Hirsz who was the Mayor of Lezrzéka.

2016 Kartuz constitutional crisis

On 14 September 2016 it was confirmed that Fridrëszk VI had influenced the Dorada to remove amendments to 56 different laws passed between 1994 and 2010 that were seen as damaging to the Monarchy by Fridrëszk. It was revealed that the King had also been involved with embezzling public funds in offshore bank accounts and had hired prostitutes at a party in 2013. The scandal caused protests to break out across the country. Several opinion polls from the time showed a large majority of people wanted Fridrëszk to abdicate in favour of his son or for the monarchy to be abolished.

In the days following the release of the information Fridrëszk left the country and stayed at a private residence in Lichland. On 20 September, Jiwóna Hirsz called for the King to abdicate or else her government would introduce a bill to abolish the Monarchy by the end of the year. Fridrëszk resisted calls to abdicate despite not returning to Kartuzia. A bill to abolish the Monarchy was never introduced with Hirsz defended by claiming: "abolishing the monarchy would be too damaging to the Kartuz nation..."

2018 SDK corruption investigation

On 2 September 2018 the Państwò newspaper revealed that members of the cabinet from the SDK had been involved in a corruption scandal and drug dealing by Sogard police who had been pressured into ending the investigation before it could be made public. Because the scandal broke after campaigning had begun it caused the SDK to fall in opinion polls and for the Change! party to surge ahead of the SDK and PLD. Mściwój Budisz called for Hirsz to resign and said he would appoint an independent investigation to look into corruption within the Dorada. Shortly after the news was released Sogard's police reopened the investigation into the SDK and found several SDK officials guilty of using the SDK's headquarters as a place to sell drugs.

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