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The 2019 Breton general election was held on 13 April to elect all 182 members of the Representative Assembly. The incumbent centre-right government led by Viviana Corre of the National Party was defeated, with both all three coalition partners losing seats. The centre-left Socialist Party became the largest party in the Assembly with 59 seats. Leader Kanna Pichon became Prime Minister after negotiating a coalition agreement with Democratic Reform, the Green Party, and the Cornish Labour Party.
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Frances Murphy is the current Prime Minister of Newfoundland. Elected Prime Minister less than four years ago, Murphy has only spent eight years in elected office of any kind.
Most of Murphy's career was spent entirely outside of politics. The daughter of a fisherman, she grew up in the outport community of Red Harbour until its relocation, and then in St. John's. Originally intending to become a secretary, a chance enrollment in one of the "test programs" of the Harry Buckley government's educational reforms put her on the path to chemistry. Working for some years in the Canadian branch of IG Farben, she left in 1984 to create her own company, Murphy Chemical Manufacturing Company. Doing so at a fortuitous time, with the imposition of tariffs making pharmaceuticals manufactured in Newfoundland a hot commodity, Murphy quickly became one of the richest women in Newfoundland.
Soon after, she became a prominent donor to the Commonwealth Party and progressive and liberal causes in Newfoundland more generally. A personal friend of then-Shadow Minister of Finance Mary Margaret Noonan and Shadow Minister of Trade and Industry Jim Larkin, Murphy was the only founding member of the Social Liberal Caucus who was not a sitting or former MP in 1993. Murphy was also at the center of a major scandal in 1997, when the Fine Gael government (particularly Minister of Health Tomás Ó Súilleabháin and Minister of Trade and Industry Proinsias Ó hEadhra, but going all the way up to Prime Minister Eoin Ó Fuireastal) was accused of targeting her and her business with unfavorable revisions to the tariff schedule and interventions into Newfoundland Ministry of Health contracting. That scandal was one of the major factors in the defeat of the Fine Gael government in the 1999 election.
Murphy was tapped for ministerial positions several times - first by Noonan in 1999, when she was almost recruited as a candidate, then after Noonan's untimely death in 2003. Finally, as Jim Larkin was preparing for the 2011 election (in which he would make his triumphant return to 12 Signal Hill after three years in opposition), Murphy consented to be nominated as the candidate for the safe seat of St. John's (Nagle Hill), and was elected with the highest majority of any candidate in that election.
After a well-regarded tenure as Minister of Economic Development and Innovation that made few headlines, Murphy was nominated as leader of the newly-rebranded Christian Socialist Party at the party's 2015 Fall Conference after Larkin announced his planned retirement, and immediately ascended to the Prime Ministership. As Prime Minister, she has been personally popular, but has borne the brunt of a number of unpopular "liberalizations", including the privatization of Newfoundland National Rail and the implementation of tuition fees at publicly-run universities. Her government took a major blow in recent months with the defection of nineteen MPs to form the Solidarity Party of Newfoundland. While Murphy has held on with a bare majority for now, polling suggests that the election this fall is more likely than not to see a Fine Gael victory, although with the first major third party since the Ecology Party of the '80s in the arena, all bets are off.
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Well, I think FPTP would die a pretty quick death after that election result.
Would be fascinated to see a 2015 followup to that scenario...
(by the way, the percentage swing statistic in that infobox for the Lib Dems is wrong)
TFW your country says you can't become President of Nicaragua so you become President of your country.
William Walker was an adventurer, mercenary, filibuster, politician, and the 20th President of the United States from 1881 to 1884. After invading Mexico with a private army in 1853, he had set up his own personal Republic and placed it under the laws of the State of Louisiana, legalizing slavery. Later, he had declared himself President of Lower California and Sonora before being forced out of the country by the Mexican Army. At his trial, he was acquitted for all crimes and soon set out for another expedition to Nicaragua. During his time there, he had set up another English-speaking Republic supported by American businesses and legalized slavery again during his tenure.
However, he would be overthrown by the conservative Legitimist party and the British navy, forcing him to flee to Louisiana in 1963, which was under the control of the Confederate States of America. After the city of New Orleans was captured, he later decided to renounce his loyalty to the Confederacy, joining the Union Army as a soldier. In reward for his bravery on the battlefield, he would be granted his own personal company of men by General Benjamin Button to wage guerilla warfare against Confederate troops. As the Civil War came to a close, Walker decided to enter politics as both a supporter of state's rights and manifest destiny, while also renouncing his support of slavery.
During the 1880 elections, Walker entered as a Presidential candidate and won the nomination, thanks to his reputation as a war veteran, a patriot, and a true American hero. With Grover Cleveland as his running mate, he managed to defeat the unpopular incumbent Rutherford B. Hayes in a landslide victory. During his Presidency, began to rebuild the U.S Navy, firmly implemented the gold standard, and fought against high tariffs during his first years in office. Later, he would refuse to grant voting rights to African-Americans and oversaw the disbanding of the Freedmen's Bureau led by General Oliver Otis Howard.
Later, President Walker would invade the Diaz regime in Mexico to expand America's southern borders and to build new settlements for African-Americans across the country. Eventually, he would declare war on Britain as well following the Venezuela crisis of 1883. However, most historians believe that the war was an act of revenge for his betrayal by British admiral Nowell Salmon in Nicaragua. This would lead to the Panic of 1884 where the stock market crashed, prompting the uprising of African, Native, Mormon, socialist, and anarchist militias all over the nation. Following the Invasion of Superior, Walker ordered the Federal Electoral Commission to delay the 1884 election, enacting a wartime government. This prompted General Oliver Otis Howard to overthrow the President in the Salvation Coup, ending his Presidency and life in 1884.
However, he would be overthrown by the conservative Legitimist party and the British navy, forcing him to flee to Louisiana in 1963, which was under the control of the Confederate States of America. After the city of New Orleans was captured, he later decided to renounce his loyalty to the Confederacy, joining the Union Army as a soldier. In reward for his bravery on the battlefield, he would be granted his own personal company of men by General Benjamin Button to wage guerilla warfare against Confederate troops. As the Civil War came to a close, Walker decided to enter politics as both a supporter of state's rights and manifest destiny, while also renouncing his support of slavery.
During the 1880 elections, Walker entered as a Presidential candidate and won the nomination, thanks to his reputation as a war veteran, a patriot, and a true American hero. With Grover Cleveland as his running mate, he managed to defeat the unpopular incumbent Rutherford B. Hayes in a landslide victory. During his Presidency, began to rebuild the U.S Navy, firmly implemented the gold standard, and fought against high tariffs during his first years in office. Later, he would refuse to grant voting rights to African-Americans and oversaw the disbanding of the Freedmen's Bureau led by General Oliver Otis Howard.
Later, President Walker would invade the Diaz regime in Mexico to expand America's southern borders and to build new settlements for African-Americans across the country. Eventually, he would declare war on Britain as well following the Venezuela crisis of 1883. However, most historians believe that the war was an act of revenge for his betrayal by British admiral Nowell Salmon in Nicaragua. This would lead to the Panic of 1884 where the stock market crashed, prompting the uprising of African, Native, Mormon, socialist, and anarchist militias all over the nation. Following the Invasion of Superior, Walker ordered the Federal Electoral Commission to delay the 1884 election, enacting a wartime government. This prompted General Oliver Otis Howard to overthrow the President in the Salvation Coup, ending his Presidency and life in 1884.
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*dies in 1860 to firing squad*
*still holds office for 24 more years*
Even the Reaper can't stop him filibustering
"Why are you challenging for something, Mr. Speaker? I was dead when Louisiana elected me. They elected me smelling f*cking bad as your President. So, I can do any damn thing I want. But now you'll not have Bill Walker to kick anymore!"
"Howard, take the office, please."
*Walker walks out kicking the door*
(Washington D.C., 9/19/1884)
I mean it meant that he was able to avoid questions as to his allegiance during the Civil War, quite well indeed.
I dont get why Clegg would be allowed to become PM in this scenario. The Lib Dems may have got the most votes, but its seats that matter when it comes to choosing who leads the government.
This was made ages ago so I am not entirely sure, I think I decided it was part of the coalition deal made.
How does Clegg become PM in this scenario? I would assume Labour wouldn't accept their junior coalition partner heading the government, and although Brown was happy to step down to facilitate a coalition, Labour would want his successor to be PM.
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