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Elections 5712: Labour’s lack of results both domestically and internationally caused their demise. 
February 5713

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Following the 5712 general election, one result was perfectly clear, the reason for the Labour Party’s defeat in these elections. While Labour maintained its majority in the Diet, the party recorded 35 losses in the lower house sending shockwaves to the very core of the party’s apparatus. Prime Minister Holian-Keaty's first term was dominated by international politics – primarily Luthorian diplomatic efforts towards Dovani, but the Prime Minister also took significant steps in curbing the rising trend of militarism in our nation and reform our broken education system. 

But was this enough? For the Luthorian electorate, it wasn’t. The Prime Minister’s agenda suffered from a lack of quick results to show accomplishments. In international politics, Temania, which became the darling of the Luthorian left, continues to be ruled by the PNSP’s one-party dictatorship, even after the Luthorians applied pressure to the regime. But, the key issue with the last term, was the lack of actual accomplishments on the economy, Luthori, was thrown into a recession following Mr. Holian-Keaty's appointment as Prime Minister, as markets feared that an insurgent Labour Party, effectively locked from government for 3 decades would lead an economic policy that would be contrary to Luthori’s needs. 

Prime Minister Holian-Keaty's term also saw some limited success on reforming the healthcare system and the education department, with a budget increase being granted to both departments and limited reforms being implemented on the latter.  

Critics have long argued that the government’s policy wasn’t “innovative” enough – and didn’t “fix” both organizations, but merely “kicked the issue down the road” and it seems that the Luthorian people found itself in agreement with these declarations. In a poll for the Guardian, 57% of Labour voters stated that they felt that the Holian-Keaty government wasn’t doing enough on these fields. 

With the election now having been held a year ago, the Conservative Party’s push, while widely expected by political specialists was nonetheless contained by the mobilization of left-wing voters, who were terrified by the prospect of a Simon premiership. The Tories only recorded an increase of 14 seats in the Imperial Diet, while the greatest beneficiaries of the Labour Party’s decline were the Liberal Party and the Left Party, both parties recording increase in their seat numbers in the lower house.  

While the elections results were disappointing to the Prime Minister, it seemingly acted as a wake-up call for the government, which is now pushing for more direct policy proposals such as the colonial apology fund, answering to a demand from the Labour base and acting on foreign policy as well. Prime Minister Holian-Keaty, in a bid to answer to the demanding Labour base, has promised more “measures” to be implemented in the next months, as his control over the party becomes increasingly shaky following the last disappointing election cycle. 

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The Guardian is a major left-wing newspaper outlet, published in Luthori, taking pride in its independent, investigative and critical journalism.