The problem here is I clicked option 3 on Issue 1088, expecting more political freedom. Instead your game has given me option 4, despite me clicking on the button for issue 3. I suspect there is a very minor script error of some kind; one which triggers option 4 if players click option 3 OR option 4 because the code for option 3 accidentally got changed in some way? Or maybe the scripts that trigger the stat effects for Options 3 and 4 got switched up in a scripting error instead?
I am no script expert, but what I would do if possible is have a test nation (like testlandia for example) look at issue 1088 real quickly. Click Option 3 and see if the line "the government terminates employment with extreme prejudice" come up instead of "voter turnout for the election of the Junior Assistant for Non-Digital Media Strategies has been unsurprisingly low" like I was hoping for. This can very quickly tell if there is some manner of error in the coding which should be fixed or not.