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LeinadB93
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This was originally planned as a contribution to @CosmicAsh's Our Fair Country, but it never made the cut before the series concluded.
So here I've repurposed it as part of my X-in-Y series - Sarawak-in-the-Commonwealth.
The 2017 Sarawakian general election was held on 19 August 2017 to elect, under the first-past-the-post system , the 82 members [1] of the Sarawak House of Assembly, the lower house of the national Parliament. This was the country's 15th general election since the granting of responsible government in 1959, and the 12th since the country gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1966.
The National Front, a broad conservative party, had dominated Sarawak politics since the country gained self-government, having held office continuously since 1959, with leader and incumbent Prime Minister Michael Palmer being the fourth-party leader to hold the office, and the first of English descent. Sarawak is rated as a "flawed democracy" owing to the near total dominance of the National Front party machine, and the use of anti-defamation laws to target journalists and politicians critical of the governing party. The National Front had held supermajorities in the Sarawak legislature up until the 2013 election, as the opposition social democratic Liberals gained support amongst the growing urbanised population. Opposition leader Violet Yong was also personally popular, owing to her robust challenging of the government and defence of press freedom, as well as her successful defeat of a defamation lawsuit against her in 2015. The All People's Congress a socially liberal multiracial party also contests elections, and is especially popular amongst the Dayak population.
In the final result, the National Front were reduced to their lowest seat total in history, while retaining 60% of the popular vote. The Liberals capitalised of the growing urban population in Sarawak to gain three seats and almost a 10% surge in their share of the vote, particular amongst voters in safe Liberal seats in Kuching. The APC held their 10 seats, and their share of the vote remained consistent. Palmer was reappointed to the office of prime minister following the election, however his premiership has continued to be defined by increasing prosecution of opposition figures, and repression of the press, while his personal popularity has been damaged by accusations of a string of extra-marital affairs. In January 2020, for the first time in Sarawak's history, opinion polls showed the National Front and Liberals within 6 points of each other.
LeinadB93's X-in-Y series
So here I've repurposed it as part of my X-in-Y series - Sarawak-in-the-Commonwealth.
The 2017 Sarawakian general election was held on 19 August 2017 to elect, under the first-past-the-post system , the 82 members [1] of the Sarawak House of Assembly, the lower house of the national Parliament. This was the country's 15th general election since the granting of responsible government in 1959, and the 12th since the country gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1966.
The National Front, a broad conservative party, had dominated Sarawak politics since the country gained self-government, having held office continuously since 1959, with leader and incumbent Prime Minister Michael Palmer being the fourth-party leader to hold the office, and the first of English descent. Sarawak is rated as a "flawed democracy" owing to the near total dominance of the National Front party machine, and the use of anti-defamation laws to target journalists and politicians critical of the governing party. The National Front had held supermajorities in the Sarawak legislature up until the 2013 election, as the opposition social democratic Liberals gained support amongst the growing urbanised population. Opposition leader Violet Yong was also personally popular, owing to her robust challenging of the government and defence of press freedom, as well as her successful defeat of a defamation lawsuit against her in 2015. The All People's Congress a socially liberal multiracial party also contests elections, and is especially popular amongst the Dayak population.
In the final result, the National Front were reduced to their lowest seat total in history, while retaining 60% of the popular vote. The Liberals capitalised of the growing urban population in Sarawak to gain three seats and almost a 10% surge in their share of the vote, particular amongst voters in safe Liberal seats in Kuching. The APC held their 10 seats, and their share of the vote remained consistent. Palmer was reappointed to the office of prime minister following the election, however his premiership has continued to be defined by increasing prosecution of opposition figures, and repression of the press, while his personal popularity has been damaged by accusations of a string of extra-marital affairs. In January 2020, for the first time in Sarawak's history, opinion polls showed the National Front and Liberals within 6 points of each other.
[1] - The constituency boundaries are the OTL Sarawak state constituencies.
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The 1960 United Kingdom general election was held on the customary second Thursday in May. It marked the return of Walter Guinness, Lord Moyne to the Premiership after controversially losing it to Victor Gollancz five years earlier. It was the first election held under the United Parliament Act of 1956 which replaced the Executive Cabinet Act of 1945. At 80 years, Lord Moyne was the oldest elected Prime Minister. He led the Conservative Alliance, a voting block comprised of the Constitutional and Conservative Parties. Decolonization, the Welfare State and a working relationship with King Edward VIII were all important electoral issues.
It is unsurprising that Gollancz’s Premiership is remembered today more within the Commonwealth than in Great Britain itself. His domestic achievements are often overlooked - some argue that he made the dreams of the Bevin Report real. For example, despite Cripp’s establishing and Laski implementing the NHSC, it was only under Gollancz that the British Medical Association joined, making the system practical. He brought the idea of Guild Socialization; a hybrid of capitalism and nationalism into mainstream political thought and he vastly increased the quantity and quality of free school meals. However, it was his policies of “devolution at home - decolonization abroad” (begun cautiously under Lawrence and stopped under Moyne) that secured his legacy with opponents accusing his idealism of blinding him to post-Independence eruptions. Despite his advanced years a formal Constitution-Conservative Bloc (usually just referred to as the “Conservative Alliance”) formed around Moyne and he became the oldest elected PM (overtaking the record set by Susan Lawrence) and the first since Stanley Baldwin to regain his position. At his swearing-in ceremony many found it humorous that at 80 years old, he would publicly declare he would not stand for further election. - List of U.K. Prime Ministers 1945-2020
It is unsurprising that Gollancz’s Premiership is remembered today more within the Commonwealth than in Great Britain itself. His domestic achievements are often overlooked - some argue that he made the dreams of the Bevin Report real. For example, despite Cripp’s establishing and Laski implementing the NHSC, it was only under Gollancz that the British Medical Association joined, making the system practical. He brought the idea of Guild Socialization; a hybrid of capitalism and nationalism into mainstream political thought and he vastly increased the quantity and quality of free school meals. However, it was his policies of “devolution at home - decolonization abroad” (begun cautiously under Lawrence and stopped under Moyne) that secured his legacy with opponents accusing his idealism of blinding him to post-Independence eruptions. Despite his advanced years a formal Constitution-Conservative Bloc (usually just referred to as the “Conservative Alliance”) formed around Moyne and he became the oldest elected PM (overtaking the record set by Susan Lawrence) and the first since Stanley Baldwin to regain his position. At his swearing-in ceremony many found it humorous that at 80 years old, he would publicly declare he would not stand for further election. - List of U.K. Prime Ministers 1945-2020
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Pedro Orochi
Banned
Hook is a 1991 American fantasy swashbuckler adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg[3] and written by James V. Hart and Malia Scotch Marmo. It stars Kevin Kline as Peter Banning / Peter Pan, David Bowie as Captain Hook, Julia Roberts as Tinker Bell, Bob Hoskins as Mr. Smee and Maggie Smith as Granny Wendy. It acts as a sequel to J. M. Barrie's 1911 novel Peter and Wendy focusing on an adult Peter Pan who has forgotten all about his childhood. In his new life, he is known as Peter Banning, a successful but unimaginative and workaholic lawyer with a wife (Wendy's granddaughter) and two children. However, when Captain Hook, the enemy of his past, kidnaps his children, he returns to Neverland to save them. Along the journey, he reclaims the memories of his past and becomes a better person.
Pedro Orochi
Banned
infobox of Nirvana different from Guy, with all respect without wanting to copy, lol, strong hug Guy.
I had Jaffee in my infobox, but I kinda cut him out, so I’d figure he’d be a touring member
So Rogers leaves instead then? Do albums like Dark Side of the Moon or The Wall come into fruition?
What if Austro-Hungary survived by reforming its dual monarchy into a quadrupole system and created a governing body similar to OTL European Union's European Council?
POD: Successful trialism in the 1870s.
Note: Galicia is not part of the empire anymore, becoming the part of reformed Poland at some point.
POD: Successful trialism in the 1870s.
Note: Galicia is not part of the empire anymore, becoming the part of reformed Poland at some point.
That is a nice infobox Hulkster, but I don't think there's such thing as $1200 million.
Might've messed up with the budget and box office, don't know if it seems too good for them or not.
The Hawaiian Republic is the common English name for the officially named Russian State; a country which existed from 1918 to 1996. For most of its existence it controlled only the Hawaiian Islands but claimed to be the legitimate government of all Russia in opposition to Soviet Russia and later the USSR. The state shifted from an initial period of military dictatorship to a strongman presidency and finally to a democratic parliamentary system after the Second World War.
The Russian State was established by White Russian forces under the leadership of Admiral Alexander Kolchak in 1918 as they retreated from the Red Army east into Siberia. A significant number of White military personnel, civilian refugees, and others evacuated from Far Eastern ports in 1920 and 1921 with Allied assistance to Hawaii, which had been a Russian territory since the mid 19th Century, following several disastrous defeats during the so called Great Retreat. The first years of the state saw severe economic hardship as the massive refugee population struggled to sustain itself on the islands under a navy dominated military regime headed by Kolchak. A constitution was adopted in 1923 which ostensibly transitioned the country to civilian government, but power remained with the military which continued highly repressive measures including purges of political opponents and indigenous groups, restrictions on emigration, and the maintenance of a violent security apparatus.
Kolchak’s erratic behaviour and unwillingness to accept American demands, as well as growing public anger, prompted an American backed internal coup d’état in 1936. The Russo-American Treaty granting US military basing rights throughout the Hawaiian Islands was signed the next year. The state entered World War II in response to a Japanese attack on the American fleet based in Nikolaygrad and fought alongside Allied forces in the Pacific Theatre. An influx of US personnel and investment brought rapid changes in the economic and social conditions of the state. In the post-war period the government faced rising expectations of reform which led to mass demonstrations. Under American pressure democratization began which culminated in free elections and the adoption of a new parliamentary constitution in 1948 although military interference in political affairs remained an intermittent issue. Living conditions improved during the 1950s and 1960s through foreign investment as well as the creation of a tourist economy.
Informal talks began with the Russian Federation regarding unification following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. With American mediation the Seattle Accord was signed in 1993 which began a gradual process of integration leading to a goal of reunification by 1996. The Russian State formally dissolved on May 5th 1996 and Hawaii became an autonomous republic of the Russian Federation. The legacy of the so called "State Period" continues to play a role in Hawaiian culture and politics.
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Wouldn't it control Alaska?
The Hawaiian Republic is the common English name for the officially named Russian State; a country which existed from 1918 to 1996. For most of its existence it controlled only the Hawaiian Islands but claimed to be the legitimate government of all Russia in opposition to Soviet Russia and later the USSR. The state shifted from an initial period of military dictatorship to a strongman presidency and finally to a democratic parliamentary system after the Second World War.
The Russian State was established by White Russian forces under the leadership of Admiral Alexander Kolchak in 1918 as they retreated from the Red Army east into Siberia. A significant number of White military personnel, civilian refugees, and others evacuated from Far Eastern ports in 1920 and 1921 with Allied assistance to Hawaii, which had been a Russian territory since the mid 19th Century, following several disastrous defeats during the so called Great Retreat. The first years of the state saw severe economic hardship as the massive refugee population struggled to sustain itself on the islands under a navy dominated military regime headed by Kolchak. A constitution was adopted in 1923 which ostensibly transitioned the country to civilian government, but power remained with the military which continued highly repressive measures including purges of political opponents and indigenous groups, restrictions on emigration, and the maintenance of a violent security apparatus.
Kolchak’s erratic behaviour and unwillingness to accept American demands, as well as growing public anger, prompted an American backed internal coup d’état in 1936. The Russo-American Treaty granting US military basing rights throughout the Hawaiian Islands was signed the next year. The state entered World War II in response to a Japanese attack on the American fleet based in Nikolaygrad and fought alongside Allied forces in the Pacific Theatre. An influx of US personnel and investment brought rapid changes in the economic and social conditions of the state. In the post-war period the government faced rising expectations of reform which led to mass demonstrations. Under American pressure democratization began which culminated in free elections and the adoption of a new parliamentary constitution in 1948 although military interference in political affairs remained an intermittent issue. Living conditions improved during the 1950s and 1960s through foreign investment as well as the creation of a tourist economy.
Informal talks began with the Russian Federation regarding unification following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. With American mediation the Seattle Accord was signed in 1993 which began a gradual process of integration leading to a goal of reunification by 1996. The Russian State formally dissolved on May 5th 1996 and Hawaii became an autonomous republic of the Russian Federation. The legacy of the so called "State Period" continues to play a role in Hawaiian culture and politics.
Excellent work, nice wiki box with interesting and well written back story!
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