2009 Malgravean Emergency General Election

2009 Emergency General Election, Malgrave
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Chamber of Representatives (Malgrave)
1st of November, 2009
	Progressive Unity Party	Conservative Action Party	Malgravean Green Party
Leader	Rachel Berry	Harold Griffin	Caroline Keller
Party	Progressive Unity Party	Conservative Action Party Party	Green Party
Percentage Vote Share	46%	32%	14%
Seats before	1184	663	289
Seats after	1134	702	319
Seat change	50	39	30
	Technology Party	Socialist Party	Future Party
Leader	Kim Ji-yeon	Alessio Abano	Valente Pesaro
Party	Technology Party	Socialist Party	Future Party
Percentage Vote Share	3%	3%	1%
Seats before	49	8	4
Seats after	27	11	4
Seat change	22	3
	Agricultural Coalition
Leader	Filip Lewandowski
Party	Agricultural Coalition
Percentage	1%
Seats before	3
Seats after	3
Seat change

In the aftermath of the 2009 Epping Metro Bombing, Prime Minister Nikola Tesla announced his resignation from the role of Prime Minister, with the relatively inexperienced Rachel Berry filling in the role, an act which shortly led to the calling of a third Emergency General Election.

It proved surprising as while the Conservative Action Party (Malgrave) made gains, the party failed to capitalise on earlier gains in the election campaign. In contrast, the Progressive Unity Party lost a number of seats under the new leadership of Rachel Berry, however, was able to limit the earlier predicted decline and retain the PUPs position as the largest party in the country.

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 (Malgrave) 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 attacking party leaders.

Campaigns

Progressive Campaign

Following the resignation of Nikola Tesla the Progressive Unity Party was faced with a growing stability crisis, as the loss of such an experienced and popular leader and the appointment of a comparative political unknown compounded fears that the party would face a collapse in the polls, as seen by the Conservative Action Party in the 1994 Malgravean Emergency General Election. In the early onset of the campaign these fears appeared to have materialised, as the Progressive Unity Party fell to their lowest polling performance in nearly two decades.

In response to this news, Rachel Berry sought to solidify her position within the party and send a strong signal to the electorate by reshuffling the cabinet, maintaining and promoting proven and popular cabinet members while replacing others (mostly comprising of her largest critics) with popular members of the party she had worked with during her time as Minister of Transport, such a move proved quite popular with the base of the party and the move was credited with energising her campaign.

Outwards, the Progressive Unity Party focused their campaign around steadying the ship, with the message of continued economic growth and sustained peace and friendship with the international community under the guidance of a new and passionate Prime Minister

Conservative Campaign

The Conservative Unity Party ran quite an 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 Unity Party to coordinate an effective military campaign against insurgent organisations, claiming that both the Special Investigative Service and Territorial Defence Force (Malgrave) were being unfairly constrained by the government.

Secondly, the Conservative Action Party attacked the Prime Minister for her lack of experience in the political sphere, with CAP campaign material highlighting her time as an idol trainee in contrast to the political experience within the CAP. At the latter stage of the campaign the CAP suffered when disagreement over speed of de-isolation and the scale of privatizations broke out into the public sphere, which drained the energy out of the campaign and nearly forced the resignation of party leader Harold Griffin and has been blamed with the party not making the wide number of gains predicted earlier in the campaign..

Green Party

The Green Party moved to capitalise on its success over the Technology Party in the 2000 Malgravean General Election 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 under environmental grounds.

Technology Party

Disastrous results in the 2000 Malgravean General Election 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 restrictions on immigration, 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 Filip Lewandowski 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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