OOC: Welcome to the official elections results hub for the 2022 Wagain Election Season, capping nearly three months of spirited hand-shaking, cold-calling, and baby-kissing, with plenty of intrigue and invective along the way. This thread is formatted as an election blog, produced by Wagondia's national broadcaster MPP, and as such will feature live analysis as results slowly trickle in from east to west, across the empire. Each province/region will report at 11pm local time, spread over the course of two days — see below for a comprehensive schedule and preview of the next update. Commentary and questions from all nations are welcome, however a response cannot be guaranteed. In particular, I would like to thank Cybus1, Timmy City, and The Orson Empire, as well as my other region-mates in the Empire of Andrew, for making this such a memorable RP, and for never failing to raise the stakes to new and exciting heights. Enjoy!
The Empire of Wagondia is a federal state governed within the framework of a parliamentary democracy, in which the monarch, currently Empress Carmen I, is the head of state while the Prime Minister, Fradique Barrachina, is the head of government. Executive power is exercised by the Wagain government, on behalf of and by the consent of the monarch, and the devolved governments of the various provinces and territories. Legislative power is vested in the two chambers of the Wagain Parliament, the lower being the Chamber of Deputies and the upper being the Senate. Since the 1970s, the two dominant parties in Wagain politics have been the Partido Blanco (PB, or Blanco) and the Partido Wagondiano del Trabajo (PWT, or Labour), however neither party controls an absolute majority of seats in the lower house (whose confidence, or support, the Prime Minister must carry). Governance therefore depends on careful strategic alignment with smaller parties, usually in the form of broad ideological coalitions. A PWT–led liberal coalition government has been in power since 27 December 2018, after the so-called 'Christmas Election' delivered a solid liberal majority in both chambers of Parliament and ended eight years of Conservative rule.
Corresponding to the maximum four-year legislative mandate allowed by the Wagain Constitution, the next general election is required to be held on or before 3 December 2022. Parliamentary leadership has officially scheduled this election for 27 November 2022, the final Sunday before the current mandate expires. All 965 seats in the Chamber of Deputies, Wagondia's lower house, will be up for election. 70 seats in the Imperial Senate, Wagondia's upper house, exactly one-third of that body, will also be election. Finally, 19 gubernatorial elections will be decided concurrently with the Parliamentary vote, including decisive races in Brazil, Mexico, and the Philippines, along with numerous municipal offices and ballot measures. The PWT-led government is seeking to reaffirm Prime Minister Barrachina's democratic mandate, possibly with an expanded majority in Parliament. They face intense activism on the political left, where a Socialist List led by the Alianza Aprista (Apr) is challenging Labour's primacy over the governing coalition. Conservatives, meanwhile, hope to flip enough seats in the lower house to make the current Opposition Leader, Etelson Lemercier, the next Prime Minister of Wagondia.
Background
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Parties
Polling
Stakes
Inundated by political organizing and a pervasive zeitgeist of change, Wagains of every creed and color have been confronting the same question these past weeks — Will life ever be the same after this? Depending on who you ask, the November 2022 General Election represents the coronation of a new great power, a clarion call for moral redemption, a temperature reading on the postwar democratic consensus, a referendum on capitalism itself, or the first real outlet for political revolution in recent memory. To all, however, it will be remembered as historic, a moment at which Wagondia confronts two paths in a forked road, and will have to make a decisive choice. And as the past ten weeks have shown us, the world is gambling, and gambling big, on the outcome.
Final Results