2024 Uskadian general election
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The 2024 Uskadian general election was recently held on Friday, 28 June 2024. The governing Progressive Workers' Party, leading the Together for Progress coalition, gained a supermajority in Parliament. This also marks the first time ever in the history of Uskad, that the Conservative Nationalist Party finished third place at a general election, marking the worst results ever for the party. TfP member and centrist party Initiative took the CNP's place as the second largest party and also became a governing partner of the PWP.
In the previous election the PWP-Initiative coalition defeated the CNP, but fell short of a majority. The coalition brokered a confidence and supply agreement with the Majengipun/Advancement party. PWP leader William Sarbalsta was then appointed Prime Minister. Due to his controversial handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, and failed economic recovery efforts, he resigned in 2022, and former PWP youth leader Peter Jasubulu was elected and took his place.
Jasubulu's economic policies has caused a relatively fast recovery of the Uskadian economy, and even furthered the growth rate. During his premiership, the PWP was at its highest approval rates since the Sasanta premiership in 2005. Opinion polls organised by various polling organisations showed high popularity rates for the PWP and Initiative, but also for the left-wing Socialists & Greens.
Jasubulu announced an extension of the current governing coalition, named Together for Progress. The TfP contained the governing parties PWP and Initiative, but also the Socialists and Greens, and the PNT. The combined coalition was set to gain a majority according to various opinion polls. Talks between the opposition CNP and the new libertarian Popular Alliance party to form an electoral coalition occurred, but broke down due to major ideological differences.
The PWP and the coalition won a major victory over the CNP, gaining a supermajority. Factors leading to the CNP's loss include high popularity of PA leader Yohan Lokrana, and unpopular policies carried out by CNP provincial governments. After the election, the PWP formed another government, the Second Jasubulu cabinet. The new Popular Alliance party has also made the largest gains by any party in the election, gaining 43 seats. The Javanese-minority rights party Manjengipun suffered the highest losses in the election, losing 37 out of its 62 seats, just one seat more than CNP losses.
Campaign positions
Together for Progress
The TfP coalition ran on a campaign platform of continuing the previous government's policy, and later released a campaign manifesto of the same name. According to the manifesto, the coalition aims to advance economic growth, social justice, innovation and international cooperation.
Some points from the manifesto:
- Use progressive taxation to fund social programs, and also boosting small and medium enterprises.
- Increase funding for education
- A four-day workweek
- Investing further in renewable energy targets
- Continuing further construction of high speed rail lines and other forms of public transport.
- Further humanitarian aid to Ukraine, eventually expanding to lethal aid.
- Ensuring affordable healthcare, and continuing the government's health care policy.
Conservative Nationalist Party
The CNP published a manifesto Steadfast Progress: A plan for a responsible and forward-thinking Uskad. In the manifesto the party aims to reduce taxes to corporations, increase the defence budget,