The
2131 Dacia premier election was a three-way election between Democrat Kylie Kirner, Seabreeze Todd Hanazawa and incumbent Republican Charlie Phelps. Ecologists became disappointed and disillushioned with Phelps early in his term. He loosed restrictions on whaling in the South Seas and opened detente talks with the Whaling Congress nations. Phelps lowered tarrifs on imported fish and seafood and attempted to negotiate trade treaties with the Whaling Congress. A rift begin to form between Phelps and former Premier Todd Hanazawa, who had been friends. Hanazawa attacked Phelps on Sunday morning talk shows and in the newspapers, and many Republicans in the Commonwealth Legislature blocked Phelps's agenda. Hanazawa attempted to challenge Phelps for the nomination. The seating of pro-Phelps delegates was controversial and Hanazawa attempted to challenge their credentials to no avail. Hanazawa attempted to form an alliance with Commonwealth Senator Michael Lemiux, but Lemiux and Hanazawa had been long alienated and distant. Hanazawa instead led a walk out of delegates. With no further opposition, Charlie Phelps and Joanne Sheridan were renominated easily.
Two weeks later, the Seabreeze Coalition gathered in Harris Roads, Green Coast. Hanazawa was nominated unanimously, with Governor Heidi Carillo of Sunny Shore as his running mate. The Seabreeze Coalition promised to take a harder line against the Whaling Congress, strict enforcement of the Jamestown Convention, fishing deregulation and higher import tarrifs. There was some easy from the left-wing of the coalition, particular the wing lead by Lemiux, who were wary of Hanazawa. The treasurer of Hanazawa's campaign was Irene Wakamoto Parsons, who was the former CFO of Alcott Fisheries, one of the largest fishing and whaling companies on Europa. Lemiux did not publicaly endorse the Hanazawa/Carillo ticket, but he did campaign for several Republicans and Democrats aligned with the Seabreeze Coalition.
Three-time Democratic nominee Nora Huerta Bryant declined to run for a fourth time despite her relative youth (she'd be 54 by election day). With Bryant out of the running, the early frontrunner was Representative Hammond Glover of Boudica, the House Minority Leader. Running close behind Glover was Kylie Kirner of Sitiyok, the former Attorney General of Sitiyok and the current President of the University of Sitiyok System. Glover was a social conservative who supported a hard line against the Whaling Congress, reduced immigration, tighter border control and stricter citizenship requirements. Kirner campaigned on more spending for education, expanded job programs, enforcement of the Jamestown Convention. Both Glover and Kirner sought Bryant's endorsement, but she refused to make an endorsement early. It wasn't until the Highwater County Democratic Organization (a corrupt political machine run by Mayor Daniel Kousaka of Boca Raton City) endorsed Glover did Bryant make her endorsement. Bryant had been opposed to the corrupt political machines and their heavy influence on the Democratic Party, so she publically endorsed Kirner for Premier. With Bryant's backing, Kirner was able to take the momentum and evnetually the nomination from Glover. Bryant pushed for Kirner to pick Governor of Hannah Spinner of Umiaq as her running mate, but Kirner instead chose Governor Riley Martinez of Cadmus (Kirner had negotiated with Martinez to get her endorsement early).
The general election turned into a three-way battle between Phelps, Hanazawa and Kirner. Despite the early intentions of both campaigns, Phelps and Hanazawa spent most of the campaign attacking each other (after the election, the Republcian Party believed that a group of Democratic PACs and fundraisers fueled the fight between Phelps and Hanazawa by running negative ads attacking both). Kirner spent most of her campaign shoring up the Democratic vote. Her campaign believed that Phelps and Hanazawa would split the Republican vote enough to give the election to her. The strategy worked. While Kirner did 6 points worse than Bryant had in 2127, increased turnout meant that she lost only one million votes. Phelps and Hanazawa badly split the Republican vote, giving Kirner and the Democrats the victory. Kylie Kirner was the first Democrat elected as Premier of Dacia in more than 40 years and the Democrats eeked out narrow majorities in both houses of the Legislature, but their mandate was shaky as a significant plurality (46%) disapproved of her as she was innagurated.
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