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I should be doing the Rhenish political parties I said I might do for my Führerreich TL, but here I am doing random political figures for that same TL
Demetrius "Mitch" Mylona II is an American politician currently serving as Governor of Alabama since 2019. He previously served as US Representative from Alabama's 2nd district from 2003 to 2019. Additionally, he is the eldest son of former Governor of Michigan Constantine "Pat" Mylona
Demetrius "Mitch" Mylona II is an American politician currently serving as Governor of Alabama since 2019. He previously served as US Representative from Alabama's 2nd district from 2003 to 2019. Additionally, he is the eldest son of former Governor of Michigan Constantine "Pat" Mylona
2018 West Florida State House Elections
In 2018, the National Party lost their outright majority in the state House of Delegates of West Florida for the first time since 1988. Unionist leader Stacey Abrams (who just recently took over after former leader David Baria resigned his position to successfully run for the Senate) became the new Speaker of the House with support from the Parti La Louisiane and their leader Dale Guillot who became Deputy Leader of the House. The Unionists were able to ride the coattails of presidential candidate Mitch Landrieu who narrowly carried the normally National state. The Unionists and the PLL were also able to ride off the long dissatisfaction of the state's National government, which also helped John Bel Edwards to defeat governor Bill McCollum three years earlier. The State Senate wasn't up for election in 2018 and remained with a National majority. The National Party did however gain the Lt. Governorship in 2018 as incumbent PLL Lt. Gov. Caroline Fayard also successfully ran for Senate only 3 years into her term with her position being filled by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate as dictated by the West Florida Constitution, National member Victor Gaston.
In 2018, the National Party lost their outright majority in the state House of Delegates of West Florida for the first time since 1988. Unionist leader Stacey Abrams (who just recently took over after former leader David Baria resigned his position to successfully run for the Senate) became the new Speaker of the House with support from the Parti La Louisiane and their leader Dale Guillot who became Deputy Leader of the House. The Unionists were able to ride the coattails of presidential candidate Mitch Landrieu who narrowly carried the normally National state. The Unionists and the PLL were also able to ride off the long dissatisfaction of the state's National government, which also helped John Bel Edwards to defeat governor Bill McCollum three years earlier. The State Senate wasn't up for election in 2018 and remained with a National majority. The National Party did however gain the Lt. Governorship in 2018 as incumbent PLL Lt. Gov. Caroline Fayard also successfully ran for Senate only 3 years into her term with her position being filled by the President Pro Tempore of the Senate as dictated by the West Florida Constitution, National member Victor Gaston.
The Pendulum of History begins its Homeward Swing...
Continued from here
2000-2005:
Blair’s quite bucked to win a second term, even if it means losing a few seats. The Tories are understandably gutted to have lost again, and quickly defenestrate Clarke to replace him with William Hague, swinging back towards the Eurosceptics to save themselves from being outflanked by UKIP, though refraining from Portillo’s bombast that had made '95 such a chore (that and Ann Widdicombe's...eccentricities).
Things seem to be going rather swimmingly until midday on October 14th 2001, when the World Trade Centre, White House, Capitol Building and Pentagon are destroyed by Al-Qaeda terror attacks, the worst in history, claiming over 10, 000 lives, including President Gore’s. Vice-President Lieberman steps into his shoes and launches the War on Terror, and Blair pledges support for his invasion of Afghanistan. 2 years later, he will likewise give the green light to an invasion of Iraq, that will prove costly and highly controversial. Meanwhile, Blair comes under fire for opening Britain to arrivals from the new Eastern-European members of the EU, and assenting to the passage of a new European Constitution that would grant sweeping new powers to Brussels. However, Brown does finally put the Euro issue to rest when he announces triumphantly that Britain has failed his 5 tests prerequisite to membership of the Single Currency. 2005 dawns with the Conservatives having picked up a little momentum: they’re winning by-elections and consistently leading in the polls, if by a narrow margin. The previous year had seen Lieberman displaced by Jeb Bush in America, and it appeared a repeat was due in Britain. The thing is; Hague’s had to pledge a referendum on Europe to out-UKIP UKIP. Sure, Farage has packed up and gone home now (his donors have switched to the Conservatives and he's all out of money), but the policy is putting mainstream voters off the Tories in droves, and many of those averse to voting Labour simply switch to a fresh, potent alternative...
You know, I have a strange nagging sensation that we've been here before...
CONSERVATIVE 255 (33.2%)
LABOUR 250 (31.1%)
LIBERAL DEMOCRAT 122 (29.7%)
OTHER 18 (6%)
TONY BLAIR IS PRIME MINISTER?
Continued from here
2000-2005:
Blair’s quite bucked to win a second term, even if it means losing a few seats. The Tories are understandably gutted to have lost again, and quickly defenestrate Clarke to replace him with William Hague, swinging back towards the Eurosceptics to save themselves from being outflanked by UKIP, though refraining from Portillo’s bombast that had made '95 such a chore (that and Ann Widdicombe's...eccentricities).
Things seem to be going rather swimmingly until midday on October 14th 2001, when the World Trade Centre, White House, Capitol Building and Pentagon are destroyed by Al-Qaeda terror attacks, the worst in history, claiming over 10, 000 lives, including President Gore’s. Vice-President Lieberman steps into his shoes and launches the War on Terror, and Blair pledges support for his invasion of Afghanistan. 2 years later, he will likewise give the green light to an invasion of Iraq, that will prove costly and highly controversial. Meanwhile, Blair comes under fire for opening Britain to arrivals from the new Eastern-European members of the EU, and assenting to the passage of a new European Constitution that would grant sweeping new powers to Brussels. However, Brown does finally put the Euro issue to rest when he announces triumphantly that Britain has failed his 5 tests prerequisite to membership of the Single Currency. 2005 dawns with the Conservatives having picked up a little momentum: they’re winning by-elections and consistently leading in the polls, if by a narrow margin. The previous year had seen Lieberman displaced by Jeb Bush in America, and it appeared a repeat was due in Britain. The thing is; Hague’s had to pledge a referendum on Europe to out-UKIP UKIP. Sure, Farage has packed up and gone home now (his donors have switched to the Conservatives and he's all out of money), but the policy is putting mainstream voters off the Tories in droves, and many of those averse to voting Labour simply switch to a fresh, potent alternative...
You know, I have a strange nagging sensation that we've been here before...
CONSERVATIVE 255 (33.2%)
LABOUR 250 (31.1%)
LIBERAL DEMOCRAT 122 (29.7%)
OTHER 18 (6%)
TONY BLAIR IS PRIME MINISTER?
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The United States Presidential Election of 1980 was widely considered to be a fairly easy victory for the incumbent Murphy administration, with a relatively strong economy and little in the way of internal problems. However, problems slowly began with the disgraced resignation of Attorney General Richard Nixon due to a corruption scandal. This scandal would haunt the Murphy Administration, despite his hardest attempts to distance himself from such an unfortunate set of events unfolding. These problems would be coupled with the surprisingly strong primary opponent of movie director turned political activist and candidate for president George Lucas, who took time off from directing a space thriller opera to manage a political campaign.
In the resulting Whig primaries, Murphy was able to utilize the advantages of incumbency, his own opponent's gaffes along the campaign trail, mass political networking and a little bit of dirty tricks to thwart Lucas's political ambitions dead in his tracks come time for the all important Superior Primary in January.
Murphy's strong performance would dissuade Lucas from advertising that the smell of blood was in the water, avoiding any stronger political actors, such as Governor Richard Lamm,who opted to sit the primary out and endorse Murphy, which enabled him to win California in a landslide, clinching the nomination without as much as a word of actual policy being discussed. Former Actor Ronald Reagan would renew his political vows as the vice presidential running mate to Murphy in the 1980 Whig National Convention held in Richmond.
Out of the woods since their shocking upset loss in 1974, The Conservative Party was looking for an outsider candidate, someone without ties to the corrupt nature of the capital, someone with a folksy, down to earth appeal. Enter the former military governor of Georgia and four star general Jimmy Carter, a former world war II veteran, Korean war veteran and known Turkish War General, famously known in the latter role as the brilliant mastermind behind the american response to the Dumlupınar Offensive in 1966, which saw Turkish reserves bled dry in guerrilla warfare style assaults. Brushing aside the token opposition posted up by anti war demonstrators who cried for George McGovern (allegedly a communist sympathizer in the 1950s by the FBI), he was able to clinch the nomination with no more serious hurtles in his way in their convention in Atlanta.
All to aware of his political shortcomings, he sought to balance the ticket with longtime U.S Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, who practically breathed politics down onto the american people during the breif moments america payed attention to the Senate on the Congressional Television.
The overall campaign would be beset by noncommittal answers and carefully worded press releases to their respective media and political bases, with large rallies promising unity, peace and heaven for all who supported candidate x. Murphy's main weakness would be suffering from tunnel vison, so closed in on winning re-election that he not only neglected to manage the country for long sections at a time (a month at the longest) but also suffering in the debates for the aforementioned Nixon Scandal. Pressing the president hard on the "integrity of the office" and slamming him for being a "rat", the debates were fierce, as both men took hard punches, swings and jabs at each other to leave a few well landed hits on each and a more numerous pile of political duds from missed blows.
While there were multiple factors to the overall result, some historians have come to the conclusion that that Carter's more promiscuous personal affairs would catch up with him. After multiple allegations of incidents with women and several mistresses coming forward with confidential information, demanding payment, Carter would be flinging out money like it was going out of style. The Murphy campaign pounced on this opportunity, with questions of the moral character of the man, while Carter would criticize those remarks and question why this information came out three days before election day. More blunders along the road would haunt carter until election night came and went, and Carter telephoned Murphy.
Unlike his brother, everyone is already going to know the president can't keep it in his pants.
Something kinda dark for my Führerreich TL, so I should warn that this involves a decent amount of death
Parliamentary elections were held in Russia on 15 September 2019 to elect all 873 members of the Narodnaya Palata. Despite polls showing incumbent Prime Minister Vadim Ivanysh's Russia for the People party neck-and-neck with opposition rising star Vlad Gridnev's Russia Will Be Free party, Ivanysh's party received more than double the votes of Gridnev's once the election came, and Ivanysh held onto his 2/3 supermajority by a one-seat margin. The election was not dubbed fair and free by international observers
The election's controversial result sparked mass protests across Russia, with numerous protesters chanting "Ivanysh must go!", "the election is a sham", and similar slogans. Ivanysh's government responded by sending in military police to deal with the protests, who often used deadly force, with over 2,500 protesters confirmed dead over the course of the first week since the election. The response damaged Ivanysh's international standing, which was already shaky as many countries, including the United States, see him as an authoritarian despot. Following the clashes between military police and protesters, US President Adam Sharp stated that Ivanysh was "a dangerous, unstable dictator". Internet political commentator Lewis Scott referred to him as "Ivanysh the Terrible", in reference to 16th century Russian ruler Ivan the Terrible. Despite the deadly force, the protests only seem to be increasing, in what international media has dubbed the "Russian Spring"
Parliamentary elections were held in Russia on 15 September 2019 to elect all 873 members of the Narodnaya Palata. Despite polls showing incumbent Prime Minister Vadim Ivanysh's Russia for the People party neck-and-neck with opposition rising star Vlad Gridnev's Russia Will Be Free party, Ivanysh's party received more than double the votes of Gridnev's once the election came, and Ivanysh held onto his 2/3 supermajority by a one-seat margin. The election was not dubbed fair and free by international observers
The election's controversial result sparked mass protests across Russia, with numerous protesters chanting "Ivanysh must go!", "the election is a sham", and similar slogans. Ivanysh's government responded by sending in military police to deal with the protests, who often used deadly force, with over 2,500 protesters confirmed dead over the course of the first week since the election. The response damaged Ivanysh's international standing, which was already shaky as many countries, including the United States, see him as an authoritarian despot. Following the clashes between military police and protesters, US President Adam Sharp stated that Ivanysh was "a dangerous, unstable dictator". Internet political commentator Lewis Scott referred to him as "Ivanysh the Terrible", in reference to 16th century Russian ruler Ivan the Terrible. Despite the deadly force, the protests only seem to be increasing, in what international media has dubbed the "Russian Spring"
Something for my Führerreich TL that was quite exhausting to make
Now this is what I call a pizza parliament
Now this is what I call a pizza parliament
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Half of you may not be here in thirty to forty years time...
If I wish you all into the Corn Laws...
The Cycle Begins Again...
Continued from here
2005-2009:
Charles Kennedy’s Lib-Dems are at the height of their powers, and he decides to gamble it all on saving Britain’s place in Europe. In exchange for promises of electoral reform, Kennedy goes and jumps into bed with Blair, to keep the Eurosceptic Hague out of Downing Street. Hague stays put as leader of the opposition, and makes loud noises about the establishment closing ranks while quietly dropping his referendum pledge. The Lib-Lab coalition is a strange beast, which accomplishes either surprisingly little or surprisingly much depending on what you were expecting. PR gets introduced to council elections and the Welsh Parliament, and the Hereditary Peers are chucked out of the Lords. However, a motion to hold general elections under PR gets killed by 3 votes in late 2007, and all hell’s about to break loose before a completely different hell breaks loose over the Atlantic. The Coalition is saved from the brink of death by the need to offer stable governance at the heart of the Financial Crisis. Kennedy is persuaded to stay on board, and the Government seems to be holding together before 2009, when Gordon Brown resigns over the failure to nationalise Northern Rock before its collapse, with much of the Cabinet following. He’s been waiting for the premiership for years as Blair repeatedly stalled his resignation, and the dismissal of his Neo-Keynesian solutions to the Crisis have proved the last straw. At this point, Kennedy pulls the plug on the coalition, and it appears that Blair is finished for good. Then, out of the blue (literally), William Hague offers a hand of friendship to Blair. Together, he says, they might form a National Government, to see through this crisis to the end. Blair and his new deputy, David Miliband, reluctantly agree. A faction of the Liberal Democrats led by Nick Clegg are also recruited, to put party above country, and a cabinet of all talents is assembled. Then, it goes to the country seeking a mandate to bring stability and recovery. Blair, Miliband and their supporters are immediately expelled from the Labour Party, which under Brown has retained the loyalty of 188 of the 233 MPs that remain of those elected in 2005. The leftovers stand under the ‘National Interest Labour’ ticket, fighting alongside Clegg’s ‘National Interest Liberals’, and the Conservatives. Unsurprisingly, their buzzword was ‘National Interest’. With the papers, the donors and a spiderweb of electoral pacts on-side, this trifecta are set to storm the polls.
For the first time in an age, expectations and reality dovetail...
Hague rules the roost, Blair is his puppet. As the economy cascades down around them, one thing is clear:
The game has only just begun.
CONSERVATIVE 416 (42.8%)
LABOUR 108 (21.3%)
LIBERAL DEMOCRAT 54 (17.1%)
NATIONAL INTEREST LIBERAL 33 (6.6%)
NATIONAL INTEREST LABOUR 17 (2.2%)
OTHER 22 (10%)
TONY BLAIR IS STILL PRIME MINISTER?!
Continued from here
2005-2009:
Charles Kennedy’s Lib-Dems are at the height of their powers, and he decides to gamble it all on saving Britain’s place in Europe. In exchange for promises of electoral reform, Kennedy goes and jumps into bed with Blair, to keep the Eurosceptic Hague out of Downing Street. Hague stays put as leader of the opposition, and makes loud noises about the establishment closing ranks while quietly dropping his referendum pledge. The Lib-Lab coalition is a strange beast, which accomplishes either surprisingly little or surprisingly much depending on what you were expecting. PR gets introduced to council elections and the Welsh Parliament, and the Hereditary Peers are chucked out of the Lords. However, a motion to hold general elections under PR gets killed by 3 votes in late 2007, and all hell’s about to break loose before a completely different hell breaks loose over the Atlantic. The Coalition is saved from the brink of death by the need to offer stable governance at the heart of the Financial Crisis. Kennedy is persuaded to stay on board, and the Government seems to be holding together before 2009, when Gordon Brown resigns over the failure to nationalise Northern Rock before its collapse, with much of the Cabinet following. He’s been waiting for the premiership for years as Blair repeatedly stalled his resignation, and the dismissal of his Neo-Keynesian solutions to the Crisis have proved the last straw. At this point, Kennedy pulls the plug on the coalition, and it appears that Blair is finished for good. Then, out of the blue (literally), William Hague offers a hand of friendship to Blair. Together, he says, they might form a National Government, to see through this crisis to the end. Blair and his new deputy, David Miliband, reluctantly agree. A faction of the Liberal Democrats led by Nick Clegg are also recruited, to put party above country, and a cabinet of all talents is assembled. Then, it goes to the country seeking a mandate to bring stability and recovery. Blair, Miliband and their supporters are immediately expelled from the Labour Party, which under Brown has retained the loyalty of 188 of the 233 MPs that remain of those elected in 2005. The leftovers stand under the ‘National Interest Labour’ ticket, fighting alongside Clegg’s ‘National Interest Liberals’, and the Conservatives. Unsurprisingly, their buzzword was ‘National Interest’. With the papers, the donors and a spiderweb of electoral pacts on-side, this trifecta are set to storm the polls.
For the first time in an age, expectations and reality dovetail...
Hague rules the roost, Blair is his puppet. As the economy cascades down around them, one thing is clear:
The game has only just begun.
CONSERVATIVE 416 (42.8%)
LABOUR 108 (21.3%)
LIBERAL DEMOCRAT 54 (17.1%)
NATIONAL INTEREST LIBERAL 33 (6.6%)
NATIONAL INTEREST LABOUR 17 (2.2%)
OTHER 22 (10%)
TONY BLAIR IS STILL PRIME MINISTER?!
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Full results maps here.
The 2019 German federal election was held on Sunday 22 September 2019 to elect all 500 members of the Reichstag. The incumbent People's Union government, headed by German People's Party leader Peter Altmaier, was defeated. The Progressives secured a strong plurality, winning 211 seats with 41% of the vote, while all three other major coalitions lost seats.
The Progressives made significant gains in the west and east, where the Prussian Progressive Coalition took a significant number of seats from both the People's Union and National Alliance. However, the Pogressives failed to break the People's Union's hold on the conservative south; in Austria, the ÖCVP gained seats at the expense of the left, while the centre made the largest gains in Bavaria.
After the election, the Progressive negotiated a confidence agreement with the German Democrats, and Heiko Maas was subsequently elected Chancellor.
So I’ll guess in 2020, the Conservatives are utterly wiped out by a Labour landslide?
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