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While smoothly elected to a 2nd Term - Windbury faces pressures as both Labour and HDA makes gains against Govt majority.
August 5645



Fort William - The "most uninteresting election ever" has finally concluded, and as expected by everyone, Prime Minister Windbury's majority in the First Chamber has been conducted to another term by voters. The PM's Conservatives secured 141 seats in the Chamber, losing 5 seats to the Opposition, like the senior governing party, junior partners in the governing coalition, the Liberals and Moderates also experienced losses during this elections, with the Liberals losing 6 seats and the Moderates merely losing 2 seats. In this election, the governing coalition lost 13 seats in favour of the Opposition, a respectable feat considering that government usually lose more seats during an election in which they are running for re-election - Hall lost 30 seats in her second bid for a parliamentary majority in 5635, for example.

The opposition increased its seats share from 163 to 176, the National Labour Party picked up 7 seats, bringing their total to 102 seats, the Greens lost 4 seats - bringing their total seat count to 33, meanwhile, the main beneficiaries of the last night's elections were the so-called "radical" political parties in the lower house - ever since the enactment of the Democratic Process Stabilization Act - political parties deemed to be on the "extreme" fringes of the political spectrum and deemed "threatening" to the stability of the democratic process and to the Crown would be forbidden to compete in national and local elections - that led to the formation of radical political parties, while not directly deemed threatening to the democratic process or the Crown - are still considered as such due to their proposed policies, which are, for the most part, in contradiction with the establishment's proposals.

Who won the most, then? Well, the Radical Democrats, while showing a good performance in this years' election (from 13 to 17 seats) - the ultimate winner was the Hosian Democrats, while not coming anywhere near to threaten the Government's majority, the increased size of their representation in the Chamber of Representatives - by six pick-ups in the last election (from 18 to 24 seats) worries many in Government, the wins of the Hosian Democrats were largely due to the defeat of several Tory candidates in their respective rural constituencies, with Stephen Miller, political editorialist at the Telegraph stating that "...if the current government continues in a largely centrist direction, several losses would be inevitable for the Tories to face - and with them, no wins to compensate" - the right-wing flank of the Tories, largely unmoved during Windbury's first term in office seems to have taken a more "militant action" to force the government to comply with their demands.

Kelly Matthews MP - the de facto head of the "Traditionalist" wing of the party - stated today to Luthorian News Network that "the Luthorian people have increased the representation of right-wing political parties in the lower house, and it is our duty, to look at these results and figure out on where our movement should next head towards" - something that the Liberal party leader, now Danielle Uxbridge stated was "perfectly reasonable", Mrs. Uxbridge is stated to look towards a position in the Cabinet - so a reshuffle may be in her best interests. Meanwhile, Moderate party leader, Pat Smothers stated that "...[while] it is perfectly reasonable for some to ask for a more militant conservative path for the cabinet, it is important to be remembered that the current government owes its victory to both moderate, liberal, conservative voters - this melting-pot of political identities shouldn't be forgotten in considering the next orientation of the Cabinet."

Foreign Secretary Porchey has been a constant supporter of increased conservative policies within the Cabinet - once stating to the Prime Minister the "inexorable death of centrist politics", putting him at odds with both the leader of the Liberal Party and the leader of the Moderates at the time - but with the combined fact of some moderate Tories being defeated in their constituencies and the overall push of the radical and militant right into the halls of power - the cornered and isolated Foreign Secretary may be now poised to take an even greater role in the government, backed by allies in Parliament and a more right-leaning Liberal Party.

So - what can we learn and think of this election? Well, it's likely that the Government will take a more militant route for the continuation of its second term, focusing on appeasing and consolidating the rightist electorate that has flipped towards the Hosian Democrats through a conservative and liberal agenda, focused around the liberalisation and opening of the Luthorian economy, the reinforcement of such economically "liberal" profession within Luthori's workforce, a tougher stance against crime and drug consumption rate, that has increased ever the anti-government protests of 5642, the break-up of some far-left political organisations that have risen in prominence, increase the budget of the internal security forces and so on.

While criticism towards his style of governance fuses from all sides of the political spectrum - the left accusing him of continuing and salvaging the "rotten status quo", while the right harasses his office for further reforms that would impact the day-to-day lives of numerous Luthorians - by taking action against the "moral peril" to Luthorian society, incarnated, in the eyes, by the perversion of society by pro-homosexual messaging and charities, pro-abortion messaging and Ads and further, Prime Minister Windbury seems to continue wishing to moderate and tone down his arch-conservative credentials while in government - even this might become an increasingly difficult task as the months progresses and the right's demands for action begin to be louder and louder. The Prime Minister's understanding of the demands of his right-wing will be seen during the not-so-useless State Opening of Parliament's address by the monarch - which would outlines the Government's policies for the rest of the year.

Only then, would we understand if the Cabinet's policy has changed significantly or not at all.