Palmyrion Presents...
THE 2020 PALMYRIAN FEDERAL ELECTION
Draining the swamp, or damming the marshes?
THE 2020 PALMYRIAN FEDERAL ELECTION
Draining the swamp, or damming the marshes?
On 15 July 2020, Palmyrion will hold the 2020 Federal Election, which takes place every five years. The people of the Royal Commonwealth will elect a Chancellor and its roster of Members of Parliament for the term 2020-2025, having heralded the end of the term 2015-2020. As per the 2000 Commonwealth Charter, the incumbent Chancellor will be ineligible for re-election to another consecutive term, though they can run for a second (and last) non-consecutive term for the term 2025-2030.
Evelyn Sta. Ana
Party: Social Democratic Party
Platform: Social democratic economics; social libertarianism and progressivism; pacifism
Sta. Ana is the youngest candidate for Chancellor the Royal Commonwealth - the entire history of Palmyrion - has seen, running for Chancellor at the relatively young age of 35 - but she is wise beyond her years, brought about by single motherhood and a drive to finish her Ph.D. in Economics (majoring in Sociology) from Palmyrion's most prestigious university, the University of Palmyrion Aragon, with her membership in and subsequent rise to leadership of the Social Democratic Party repeatedly testing and refining her expertise as a public servant. While her most scathing critics criticise her past life and her being a single mother, Sta. Ana regularly brushes them off and has her credentials and achievements to speak for themselves, having led the SDP's efforts to rebuild basic public services and utilities in Palmyrion's war torn regions after the Palmyrian Troubles (2009-2018).
Ricardo Duterte
Party: Commonwealth Action Party
Platform: Social libertarianism and progressivism, social democratic economics, militarism
Duterte is a former general of the Palmyrian military, running for the position of Chancellor at the age of 70. Born on 1950, he has first served in the Stalinist regime's military, joining its officer corps at the age of 20 and serving the Stalinist regime before defecting to the Commonwealth Counter-Revolutionary Front on 1975. After the Counter-Revolutionary War he continued his service in the Palmyrian military, during which he rose through the ranks of the Army, landing a position as a Brigadier General on 2000 before retiring at the age of 60 as a Major General. Indeed, how he led the 101st Armour Brigade, perhaps the Army's most prestigious military unit, in counter-insurgency operations against Stalinist remnants and, later, their successors from 1990-2010 are meritable, to include his model of civil-military operations becoming the standard all across the AFP. His wife died back in 2005, but not before having reared 3 children into adulthood, all of whom are serving in the Army as commissioned officers.
Eustace Macalintal
Party: Communist Party of Palmyrion
Platform: Socialism, left-wing populism, social traditionalism
"Capitalism thrives on excesses and profits off moral degradation" has always been Macalintal's stance as a socialist; for him, capitalism and liberal democracy have gone hand-in-hand to profit off society's moral collapse and economic inequality in service of only for the few. Having fought in the side of the Stalinists and miraculously survived to obtain a pardon from the Stalinist regime's successor, Macalintal's resolve to bring Palmyrion back to its Stalinist glory and free it from capitalism has only hardened - and the various accusations of conspiracy with rebellion (a form of high treason according to Palmyrion) have only strengthened it further.
Romy Perez
Party: Synarchist Party of Palmyrion
Platform: Fourth-Position Politics, Neo-Fascism, Right-Wing Populist Nationalism, Synarchist economics
Romy Perez was never a fan of liberal democracy from the start. He believed that liberal democracy only led to moral downfall and eventual societal collapse - and Palmyrion's recent troubles may provide credence to his beliefs. Born on 1968, Perez graduated from the University of Palmyrion Aragon on 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, before taking up law school at the same institution and finishing law on 1994; his experience meting out the law has led him to believe that liberal democracy is inefficient in handing out the law, feeding to the fascist underpinnings of his politics. A fan of Aleksandr Dugin, he believed that only fascism can retain societal order and progress in line and in check according to the principles of common law and natural law.
Harold Bragancia
Party: Christian Democratic Party
Platform: Christian democracy, Christian traditionalism and social teaching, distributist economics
Pastor Bragancia was raised in a deeply religious Roman Catholic family and community in suburban Palmyrion, his life having revolved deeply around Catholic social teaching. Bragancia lived much of his life as a sacristan before he became an ordained priest at the age of 30 on 1998, and took an oath of chastity as part of his priestly duties - and the Troubles from 2009 to 2018 served as a watershed event that shaped his political ambitions and views of a Palmyrion ruled by a Christian democracy, with its laws and core economic policies adhering to Christian traditionalist social teaching and distributism, respectively.
Ahmad al-Hiwari
Party: Commonwealth Muslim Democratic Party
Platform: Islamic democracy, Islamic traditionalism and social teaching, Islamic economic jurisprudence (fiqh al-mu'amalat)
Imam al-Hiwari was born to and raised in a Muslim family and community in the island of Sultan Osmalik, raised by a high middle-class imam of a local mosque. His educational attainment revolved mainly around primary and secondary level madrasas in his town of birth, with his tertiary education being at the local campus of the University of Palmyrion. He graduated with a BA in Sociology, majoring in Islamic Sociology; he would then see the Troubles as a watershed event when the Palmyrian Khalifati Front rebelled in the southern islands of Mindanao and Sultan Osmalik, as it shaped his ideals of an Islamic society adhering to Islamic social teaching and economic jurisprudence.
CAP, SDP Dominate Pre-Election Polls
Gerald Valencia | 10 June 2020 1:34PM PST
- CAP coming first at 31%, with SDP following closely at 29%
- CDP at third, CMDP at a distant fourth
- SPP and CPP at fifth and sixth, respectively
PALMYRION | The results of the first pre-election poll, conducted last week from 01 - 05 June 2020 by social research institution Union Pulse, have been released this morning of June 10, 2020, following a week-long anticipation of the survey results by the electorate.
According to the survey on voter preferences which had 2,048,256 respondents in total, 31% of the surveyed voters preferred voting for the Commonwealth Action Party (CAP; Partido Aksyong Mankomunidad), with 29% preferring the Social Democratic Party (SDP; Partido Sosyo-Demokratiko). The Christian Democratic Party (CDP) and the Commonwealth Muslim Democratic Party (CMDP) had voter preferences of 21% and 10%, respectively, while the Synarchist Party of Palmyrion (SPP) and the Communist Party of Palmyrion (CPP) had voter preferences of 8% and 1%, respectively.
This was also reflected in their choice of Chancellor: CAP candidate MGEN Ricardo Duterte (RET) PA came first in voters' preference, while Evelyn Sta. Ana of the SDP followed a close second, with Harold Bragancia of the CDP coming third, Ahmad al-Hiwari of the CMDP coming fourth, and the SPP's Romy Perez and CPP's Eustace Macalintal both coming a distant fifth and sixth, respectively.
Palmyrion is set to elect its Chancellor and roster of Members of Parliament by 15 July 2020.
According to the survey on voter preferences which had 2,048,256 respondents in total, 31% of the surveyed voters preferred voting for the Commonwealth Action Party (CAP; Partido Aksyong Mankomunidad), with 29% preferring the Social Democratic Party (SDP; Partido Sosyo-Demokratiko). The Christian Democratic Party (CDP) and the Commonwealth Muslim Democratic Party (CMDP) had voter preferences of 21% and 10%, respectively, while the Synarchist Party of Palmyrion (SPP) and the Communist Party of Palmyrion (CPP) had voter preferences of 8% and 1%, respectively.
This was also reflected in their choice of Chancellor: CAP candidate MGEN Ricardo Duterte (RET) PA came first in voters' preference, while Evelyn Sta. Ana of the SDP followed a close second, with Harold Bragancia of the CDP coming third, Ahmad al-Hiwari of the CMDP coming fourth, and the SPP's Romy Perez and CPP's Eustace Macalintal both coming a distant fifth and sixth, respectively.
Palmyrion is set to elect its Chancellor and roster of Members of Parliament by 15 July 2020.
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