Influencing elections of other countries

[Pope Hilarius II]

How would one go about it? If, say I wanted to change a country's ruling party to reactionary?
I thought about going to war and occupying/annexing states where the people show little favour for the party you want in power. Also, what advantages would this have in the long term? (other than making it easier to form a faction with said country in HoI4)

 

[General WVPM]

In vanilla, no real effective way apart from war.
If a country lacks core provinces, they get fascist.
If they have unemployed people (especially craftsmen), they go socialist/communist.

You could occupy industrial provinces and wait for factories to go bankrupt, thus firing all employees and pissing off the former workers as they are now homeless beggars.

In my own mod, I made an event where a great power can choose to promote it's ruling party in it's spherelings, when they hold an election. Probably other modders thought of this as well and made something similar.

Btw, love the combo of name and question

 

[TurtleShroom]

Hey, do you think that you could share that Event where you can promote a party in a sphere-ling? I'd like to put that in my custom version of PDM.

Even better, do you think that you could write an Event like that one, except that it allows me to choose whatever party I want to influence a sphere-ling, similar to PDM's "Support the X Parties" electoral event?

 

[General WVPM]

# Election Interaction
country_event = {
    id = 19011
    title = "Elections"
    desc = "The elections have started."
    picture = "voting"

    trigger = {
        election = yes
        NOT = { has_country_modifier = elections }
    }

    mean_time_to_happen = {
        days = 1
    }
    
    option = {
        name = "Ok"
        any_country = {
            limit = {
                is_sphere_leader_of = THIS
                ruling_party_ideology = fascist
            }
            country_event = 19012
        }
        any_country = {
            limit = {
                is_sphere_leader_of = THIS
                ruling_party_ideology = reactionary
            }
            country_event = 19013
        }
        any_country = {
            limit = {
                is_sphere_leader_of = THIS
                ruling_party_ideology = conservative
            }
            country_event = 19014
        }
        any_country = {
            limit = {
                is_sphere_leader_of = THIS
                ruling_party_ideology = liberal
            }
            country_event = 19015
        }
#        any_country = {
#            limit = {
#                is_sphere_leader_of = THIS
#                ruling_party_ideology = anarcho_liberal
#            }
#            country_event = 19016
#        }
        any_country = {
            limit = {
                is_sphere_leader_of = THIS
                ruling_party_ideology = socialist
            }
            country_event = 19017
        }
        any_country = {
            limit = {
                is_sphere_leader_of = THIS
                ruling_party_ideology = communist
            }
            country_event = 19018
        }
        add_country_modifier = {
            name = elections
            duration = 183
        }
    }
}
# Election Interaction
country_event = {
    id = 19012
    title = "Election Interaction"
    desc = "$FROMCOUNTRY$ is holding elections, we could 'promote' the fascists...."
    picture = "voting"
    
    is_triggered_only = yes
    
    option = {
        name = "No that would be fraud."
        badboy = -1
    }
    option = {
        name = "As long as nobody finds out."
        FROM = {
            any_pop = {
                ideology = {
                    value = fascist
                    factor = 0.20
                }
            }
        }
        diplomatic_influence = {
            who = FROM
            value = -25
        }
        ai_chance = { factor = 100 }
    }
    option = {
        name = "Promote? Manipulate you mean!"
        badboy = 1
        prestige = -25
        FROM = {
            any_pop = {
                ideology = {
                    value = fascist
                    factor = 1.5
                }
            }
        }
        diplomatic_influence = {
            who = FROM
            value = -50
        }
        any_country = {
            limit = {
                OR = {
                    political_parties = non_secret_ballots
                    political_parties = secret_ballots
                }
            }
            relation = {
                who = THIS
                value = -50
            }
        }
    }
}
# Election Interaction
country_event = {
    id = 19013
    title = "Election Interaction"
    desc = "$FROMCOUNTRY$ is holding elections, we could 'promote' the reactionaries...."
    picture = "voting"
    
    is_triggered_only = yes
    
    option = {
        name = "No that would be fraud."
        badboy = -1
    }
    option = {
        name = "As long as nobody finds out."
        FROM = {
            any_pop = {
                ideology = {
                    value = reactionary
                    factor = 0.20
                }
            }
        }
        diplomatic_influence = {
            who = FROM
            value = -25
        }
        ai_chance = { factor = 100 }
    }
    option = {
        name = "Promote? Manipulate you mean!"
        badboy = 1
        prestige = -25
        FROM = {
            any_pop = {
                ideology = {
                    value = reactionary
                    factor = 1.5
                }
            }
        }
        diplomatic_influence = {
            who = FROM
            value = -50
        }
        any_country = {
            limit = {
                OR = {
                    political_parties = non_secret_ballots
                    political_parties = secret_ballots
                }
            }
            relation = {
                who = THIS
                value = -50
            }
        }
    }
}
# Election Interaction
country_event = {
    id = 19014
    title = "Election Interaction"
    desc = "$FROMCOUNTRY$ is holding elections, we could 'promote' the conservatives...."
    picture = "voting"

    is_triggered_only = yes
    
    option = {
        name = "No that would be fraud."
        badboy = -1
    }
    option = {
        name = "As long as nobody finds out."
        FROM = {
            any_pop = {
                ideology = {
                    value = conservative
                    factor = 0.20
                }
            }
        }
        diplomatic_influence = {
            who = FROM
            value = -25
        }
        ai_chance = { factor = 100 }
    }
    option = {
        name = "Promote? Manipulate you mean!"
        badboy = 1
        prestige = -25
        FROM = {
            any_pop = {
                ideology = {
                    value = conservative
                    factor = 1.5
                }
            }
        }
        diplomatic_influence = {
            who = FROM
            value = -50
        }
        any_country = {
            limit = {
                OR = {
                    political_parties = non_secret_ballots
                    political_parties = secret_ballots
                }
            }
            relation = {
                who = THIS
                value = -50
            }
        }
    }
}
# Election Interaction
country_event = {
    id = 19015
    title = "Election Interaction"
    desc = "$FROMCOUNTRY$ is holding elections, we could 'promote' the liberals...."
    picture = "voting"

    is_triggered_only = yes
    
    option = {
        name = "No that would be fraud."
        badboy = -1
    }
    option = {
        name = "As long as nobody finds out."
        FROM = {
            any_pop = {
                ideology = {
                    value = liberal
                    factor = 0.20
                }
            }
        }
        diplomatic_influence = {
            who = FROM
            value = -25
        }
        ai_chance = { factor = 100 }
    }
    option = {
        name = "Promote? Manipulate you mean!"
        badboy = 1
        prestige = -25
        FROM = {
            any_pop = {
                ideology = {
                    value = liberal
                    factor = 1.5
                }
            }
        }
        diplomatic_influence = {
            who = FROM
            value = -50
        }
        any_country = {
            limit = {
                OR = {
                    political_parties = non_secret_ballots
                    political_parties = secret_ballots
                }
            }
            relation = {
                who = THIS
                value = -50
            }
        }
    }
}
# Election Interaction
country_event = {
    id = 19017
    title = "Election Interaction"
    desc = "$FROMCOUNTRY$ is holding elections, we could 'promote' the socialists...."
    picture = "voting"

    is_triggered_only = yes
    
    option = {
        name = "No that would be fraud."
        badboy = -1
    }
    option = {
        name = "As long as nobody finds out."
        FROM = {
            any_pop = {
                ideology = {
                    value = socialist
                    factor = 0.20
                }
            }
        }
        diplomatic_influence = {
            who = FROM
            value = -25
        }
        ai_chance = { factor = 100 }
    }
    option = {
        name = "Promote? Manipulate you mean!"
        badboy = 1
        prestige = -25
        FROM = {
            any_pop = {
                ideology = {
                    value = socialist
                    factor = 1.5
                }
            }
        }
        diplomatic_influence = {
            who = FROM
            value = -50
        }
        any_country = {
            limit = {
                OR = {
                    political_parties = non_secret_ballots
                    political_parties = secret_ballots
                }
            }
            relation = {
                who = THIS
                value = -50
            }
        }
    }
}
# Election Interaction
country_event = {
    id = 19018
    title = "Election Interaction"
    desc = "$FROMCOUNTRY$ is holding elections, we could 'promote' the communists...."
    picture = "voting"
    
    is_triggered_only = yes
    
    option = {
        name = "No that would be fraud."
        badboy = -1
    }
    option = {
        name = "As long as nobody finds out."
        FROM = {
            any_pop = {
                ideology = {
                    value = communist
                    factor = 0.20
                }
            }
        }
        diplomatic_influence = {
            who = FROM
            value = -25
        }
        ai_chance = { factor = 100 }
    }
    option = {
        name = "Promote? Manipulate you mean!"
        badboy = 1
        prestige = -25
        FROM = {
            any_pop = {
                ideology = {
                    value = communist
                    factor = 1.5
                }
            }
        }
        diplomatic_influence = {
            who = FROM
            value = -50
        }
        any_country = {
            limit = {
                OR = {
                    political_parties = non_secret_ballots
                    political_parties = secret_ballots
                }
            }
            relation = {
                who = THIS
                value = -50
            }
        }
    }
}

Ofcourse you can change it so that you always get 1 event which lets you decide which ideology gets a boost, you can't boost parties.