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The first election of the newly established Human Federation saw some familiar faces; and even more peculiar parties. The first party, All-Union, was established as a broad coalition between American and Soviet politicians. While their ideologies differed greatly, they had set aside their ideological anger with each other in the name of liberating Earth from the enemy occupation. Nikita Khrushchev became the head of the newly minted party, with many Americans, Brits, Irish, Soviets and Yugoslavs sitting in the cabinet and party leadership. The party is broad-tent, and has no defined left-right policy -- currently, the left-pole ideological bloc is in power.
The second party, Eurocratic, was a coalition of the former European political organizations, and is largely rooted in Christian Democracy, and de Gaulle's own Gaullism/Eurocracy, which has it's own method of governing beyond the American-Soviet dichotomy.
The third party, Three Principles, is the party which makes up the majority of the Asian electoral bloc -- largely consisting of Kuomintang and CCP refugees, the party adheres to Sun Yat-sen's Three Principles, but with Mao and Chiang both gone, Zhou Enlai is the leader of the party -- and is struggling to keep the party together as the right-wing Chinese and left-wing Chinese still do not see eye to eye -- even in the new Stronghold Han.
The fourth party, Zionist Labour, is a party which purports to be the successor to Israel and subscribes to Modern Zionism, which outlines that the ultimate goal of all Jewish people is to liberate themselves from capitalist struggle, to liberate Earth from the unclean non-human xeno-scum, and then to reclaim all of the Holy Land in the name of Israel. The party leader is Thomas Blatt, a Sobibor survivor from Poland whom had lived in the United States during Operation Crossroads.
The fifth major party is the "etcetera" communist/socialist alliance -- Socialist Unity, governed by the former SED leadership of East Germany. This party has limited power outside of certain areas, but has support from a large number of Eastern Bloc expats and many expats of North Korean origin -- even if Kim Il-sung and his regime died a burning death beneath the boots of an alien invader.
Khrushchev's victory was in no small part due to the great gravitas of his coalition, and this coalition would maintain a certain amount of power for years to come, all under the stern, watchful gaze of General Eisenhower.
The
1964 Human election was contentious. During his seven year administration, Nikita Khrushchev had governed with a wide-berth of support from the political bureaucracy and the General Assembly. While the 1964 election was already scheduled to take place on Victory in Europe Day, 1964; Khrushchev was suddenly challenged in a leadership election in February 1964. Candidates challenging him pushed him out in the first ballot -- and by the third,
James Nesmith emerged as the leader of the party -- Nesmith's background was one of the working-class. He had served as a sentry in his youth during World War II, and had served in Her Majesty's armed forces before
Crossroads. He had served as Governor of London-on-Kalgar (
Kalgar being a major river on the northern continent in which the Humans had arrived on the planet).
The only other party to see a leadership change was the
Socialist Unity Party, which saw the East German leadership ousted by an internal popular vote, and Liu Shaoqi, a former Chinese communist leader, being named to the party leadership. His election did not help the party much, which saw more of their seats pass into the hands of the
All-Union Party. The Zionist Labour party and Three Principles party suffered minor losses, which the
All-Union and
Eurocratic parties made up in significance.
However, in three years, the political landscaped changed.
1967's general election was an interesting one. In the years leading up to it,
James Nesmith's government had been an unmitigated disaster. While he had initially promised rapid expansion of the armed forces, further research, and the establishment of new laws protecting Combines from corporate prosecution, and the developing "Pan-Human Health Service" (PHHS) which provided medicare, pension and other welfare services to the Human citizenry.
The first major issue was the
Grand Mesa Famine. During the particularly bitter winter of 1964, the Mormon-majority colony of
Grand Mesa, located in the mountainous regions north of
Stronghold 'Independence' (the federal capital) was cut-off from major supply lines as heavy snowfall and blocked the Brigham Young Pass, the only way to undertake an ascent of Grand Mesa and reach the Stronghold. Despite attempts by the
Air Legion (whose capacity as an arm of the military was largely logistics based) to deliver goods to the settlement, it was a significantly difficult situation to behold. In January 1965, Grand Mesa declared independence from the Human Federation due to the frustrations of the First President of the Latter-Day Saints with the central government's complete failure to respond in a "competent manner".
When the snow melted during the Summer of 1965, there was a brief shooting war between Grand Mesa's "militia" and the Army of the Federation. After 17 days, the two sides agreed to a temporary ceasefire and negotiations; but Grand Mesa stubbornly refused to rejoin the Federation short of an invasion. Nesmith's government was damaged by this, and the outbreak of Zionist nationalist riots shortly afterwards did not help him.
In 1966, the
All-Union Party broke up after infighting caused by frustration at the Grand Mesa affair, and the Zionist riots.
David Burke, a Canadian-born farmer-now-politician representing the largely agrarian Stronghold of
Rupert's Land, lead a walk-out of the
All-Union Congress of 1966, and formed his own party -- called
Integrity. This party largely consisted of centrist or moderate-conservative politicians, and opposed that of Prosperity, which largely consisted of centre-left or liberal politicians.
The other parties that underwent change included the
Eurocratic Party -- Charles de Gaulle resigned in 1966, feeling that his leadership of the party was "no longer necessary" and took to a quiet retirement. His replacement was Aldo Moro, an Italian politician whom had become one of the founding citizens of
Nova Apulia, named for his home province on Earth. Moro was a Christian Democrat in many sense, but distanced himself from Gaullism, preferring to govern with "Christian decency and Christian democracy."
The
Three Principles Party underwent a facelift in 1964, with Zhou Enlai resigning his position as Chairman of the Party.
Park Chung-hee made a decent appeal at a new party structure, one that focused on the balances of centrist democracy, and got his wish -- becoming both leader, and getting a blank cheque to redress the party. The
Justice and Unity Party was formed, and became a major factor in the settling of the
Korean Strongholds Conflict of 1966.
In 1967, election day rolled around, and Nesmith's government was looking weak and sick. In a fell swoop, David Burke and his party stormed the Grand Assembly, and net 221 seats. While not a majority, they quickly made friends with the Eurocrats and the Justice and Unity camps; granting a near unassailable majority in the GA, and giving him the office of Minister-President.
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