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Bill: RP: Questions about party leadership
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Democratic Party
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: January 5130
Description[?]:
| With the 10th anniversary of the formation of the Liberty & Democracy party nearing closer, questions have begun to rise about the future of the party leadership. While Damian Holt has led the party to successful elections, the wounds of the results of 5126 election have yet to heal, and the permanent factional division it has caused is predicted to remain for a long duration. Damian Holt, a member of the Libertarian faction, the initial faction of the party, has seen his factions influence, and his own influence crumble over the past few years. Prior to the 5126 election, there were only 2 factions, the Libertarian faction with 37 MPs, and the Pirland Liberals, a single-state faction, with 8 MPs. This absolute majority in terms of factional size meant that nothing could threaten Holt's leadership of the party. While Pirland has historically possessed the absolute majority of the party's seats, the 5125 election was an exception, allowing the Libertarian faction to maintain power without issue. However, over the course of the term, Holt made many policy and vote decisions contradictory to his own party's core values in an attempt to appease the larger parties in an attempt to gain government positions. However, this would result in his own core voter base of secular libertarians to turn elsewhere with their votes, damaging the nationwide support of the Liberty & Democracy party. This would accumulate at the 5126 election, where in all states but Pirland, the party MP's were largely wiped out. This would result in the Libertarian faction being left with 9 seats, and the Pirland Liberals only losing a single MP, now with 8 seats. With the Libertarians going from an absolute majority to having a single seat between them and the Liberals, rumors began to spread in the party of fractures, and even a potential leadership spill. Holt would become more rash in his approach to leadership, pushing even more contradictory votes and leading more to question his leadership. It was at this point Deputy Leader Edward Patten thought the Libertarian faction could no longer supply the party with the votes required to recover any seats at all, and infact predicted they would lose further seats under a Libertarian majority. And so, at the annual conference, on the 7th anniversary of the party's foundaton, Patten announced the formation of the 3rd faction of the party, the Democrats, with himself and another MP, who appeal more to centre to centre-right voters. Even with the weight of Holt holding back much voter growth, Patten believed his decision could grow the party enough to being to shift the balance of power internally away from the Libertarians, and into his own faction. While Holt saw this as a betrayal, he knew removing Patten from deputy leadership would cause Jackson Clark, leader of the Pirland Liberals, to cooperate with Patten to overthrow Holt, as he no longer commanded a majority of MPs. At this point the makeup of the Caucuses were 7 Libertarians, 8 Pirland Liberals and 2 Democrats, causing the Majority Leader of the National Committee title to fall from Holt to Clark. For around 10 months, the balance of power in the party was dangling by a thread between the Libertarians and the Pirland Liberals, with only the Democrats to seperate them. Patten had inherited a great deal of new influence in the party, as by his command the entire leadership structure could change in a day. But even with this delicate situation internally looking like it could not get any worse, well known West Bolton MP Katherin Williams decided she had had enough with the Libertarian faction, and splintered by herself, announcing the formation of the Social Moderates. Yet again, the situation had changed, now there were just 6 Libertarians, 8 Pirland Liberals, 2 Democrats and 1 Social Moderate. This would cause the balance of power to again shift immensely, as now all the Pirland Liberals needed was Williams to vote in favour of a leadership change, snatching the balance of power away from the Democrats, who were now seen as just a small extension of the Libertarians. While Clark could take power, the current political instability in the nation, and the lack of even a cabinet, meant Clark didn't want to make the Liberty & Democracy anymore unstable in these uncertain times. And so he waited, and the 5128 election rolled around. The balance of power at this election shifted again, with 4 factions competing, and the party gaining 3 seats up to 20, with gains only being made in Pirland, and 2 seats lost in West Bolton, yet again the state of Pirland massively grew in terms of its influence in the party, and this time the Pirland Liberals won enough seats to get an outright majority of 11, with the Libertarians stuck on 6, and the Democrats remaining on 2, with the Social Moderates remaining on 1. While the election granted the Pirland Liberals an absolute majority, and Clark the opportunity to become leader in his own right, the external political instability of Likatonia as a whole yet again prevented Clark from making any moves on the leadership of the party. Holt remained nervous and slowly became more and more agressive as time passed, as the inevitability of his downfall became more and more apparent. Eventually, the 5129 election came. With it, the Pirland Liberals lost its absolute majority, pushing away the dreams of leadership for Clark a little further, and yet again delaying the inevitable for Holt. The party gained 3 seats at the election, and the new factional makeup gave the Libertarians 8 MPs, the Pirland Liberals 10 MPs, a majority but not an aboslute one, the Democrats 3 and the Social Moderates 2. With the election results and the new balance of power still fresh on everyone's mind, Clark could still become leader should the Social Moderates continue to cooperative. And with the prosepects of a successful formation of a national cabinet, and the end of political instability in Likatonia, Clark now has the opportunity to make his move, and it is projected he will do so on the 10th anniversay national committee meeting. The question now is, will Holt remain as leader after the NC meeting, continue to delay the inevitable and become more rash, or take the time to humble himself and continue to slowly regain what the party has lost. Or, will Clark snatch the leadership for himself and drive the party in a new, more successful moderate direction, or will he simply serve himself and the state of Pirland, and ignore the rest of Likatonia. Only time will tell... (For more information of the structure of the party, see: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OVhJt6uVqLgWKg4FcKKPM7twoGmhwNUZFo7P5AJXsxM/edit?usp=sharing ) |
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| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 372 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 128 |
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