DBWI: Which party are you voting for in the upcoming Roman Senate elections

OOC: You can't take the power to say a party was barred from the senate in this world if the posts concerning "Libertas" all indicate they can run and win a senate seat. Otherwise, they wouldn't be a party, they'd be a movement. I even said they have a good showing in many regions of the empire abroad.

So it violates the preset canon wherein Libertas can get a seat, and is in bad taste to the posts of the people who talked about it. You can reinterpret things people say in DBWI's slightly (most of the time because you may think its ASB or realistically wrong or whacked out) but that reinterprets it totally against what had been said of it or indicated.

So I ask you respectfully to remove that part of your post.

OOC: Technically speaking, not being able to win senate seats doesn't mean that a party can't get people elected, even at a national level, in the Roman system, since there were several positions (Tribunes, Aediles, Quaestors) who didn't need to be senators. The position of Tribune was also very powerful, and since it was meant for the "lower" classes, it's what Libertas and Unity would be gunning for most likely (and it would be a position from which they could reform the senate and try to get in).

But if no one likes the addition, I'll take out the being barred thing.
 
BREAKING NEWS!!! Honorius Perodotus, the billionaire former Governor of Tequus, has just announced that he is leaving the Optimate party and is forming the Neo-Julian party. He was joined at his press conference by Senator Pavlos Tsongas of Byzantium and Josephus Kennedius, mayor of the Terra Novan city of Bostonium.
 
OOC: Technically speaking, not being able to win senate seats doesn't mean that a party can't get people elected, even at a national level, in the Roman system, since there were several positions (Tribunes, Aediles, Quaestors) who didn't need to be senators. The position of Tribune was also very powerful, and since it was meant for the "lower" classes, it's what Libertas and Unity would be gunning for most likely (and it would be a position from which they could reform the senate and try to get in).

But if no one likes the addition, I'll take out the being barred thing.

OOC: By now there would probably be a broadly democratic system for electing senators which may favour two parties over others (or even one) but it's likely that somesort of reformation would have meant the "lower classes" could vote for senate by now.
 
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