PRESIDENT RYGINSDOHTER APPROVES DISSOLUTION OF FOLKSMOT FOR ELECTION
The President has confirmed the 2020 election will happen on the 19th April.
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04 Mar 2020 | Aalmsted, Azmara
AALMSTED, AZMARA – President Maarija Ryginsdohter has signed the Dissolution Notice for the 53rd Folksmot, which means that the current Folksmot will cease to sit after Friday as the campaigning period for the 2020 election begins.
This comes after yesterday evening's vote on the motion, proposed by the Prime Minister and brought to the front of the agenda, resulted in a vote of 125-1 in favour of the motion, with 24 members not voting on the motion. The only MP to vote against was former People's Party member for Groonbank, Karl Karlssun, who was expelled from the party after a scandal involving inappropriate messages sent to members of staff, yet many members of the Sotirian Democrats did not vote on the election, with this decision being connected to the poor results predicted for the party.
Major issues that are thought to affect the election are thought to be the record of the Workers'-Green-Socialist coalition that has governed the nation since June, with the debates centering on its policies towards regeneration, climate change, renationalisation and devolution. Debate over the course of regeneration policies, in which government investment money has been pumped into infrastructure and education in areas of the country suffering from deindustrialisation, and renationalisation, in which the government has reversed the partial privatisations of transport, water and energy carried out in 1992 by the Gold Flame-Radical government, will feature heavily as Gold Flame have emphasised the use of tax breaks and subsidies to encourage new industries over "reckless intervention" to fight deindustrialisation and have expressed concerns about the renationalisation.
Devolution is thought to become an issue as the Radicals, the Free Alliance, the Greens and the Workers' Party are poised to attempt to capitalise on their major role in legislating and campaigning for the creation of devolved legislatures in Haadland and Hytklif, while the Sotirian Democrats and the People's Party are thought to continue their opposition to devolution seen throughout 2019, hoping to capitalise to anti-devolution voters in both provinces. However, the strategy's effects are uncertain as the Sotirian Democrats lost control of Hytklif in the elections to the devolved assembly for the first time in 30 years as a pro-devolution coalition took controo.
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