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((It's also a party which received significantly less than 5% of the vote, and so should be grateful for getting anything, really. If we had a national system it would be toast))
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Both FD and NLP ran in Kyushu, they both had more then VP per region (NLP around 2 I think and FD 3) you only had 1VP.
(1/6 is 16,7% of the vote, shouldn't the RPP recieve more))
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Election of 1877
The Freedom Party, the brainchild of the opposition, a united front to fight the power of the National Liberals. The Freedom Party was organized by the leaders of the Loyalist Association and the Unity and Honor Faction, Sakamoto Naotari and Uesugi Narinori. Unryu Raizo was the founder of the party alongside Sakamoto and Uesugi. However neither men would receive the honor of being the candidate for prime minister in the general election. The honor would go to Colonel Masahiro Tanaka, a Colonel in the Imperial Army. However, the National Liberals, not ones for loosing the battle, decided to unleash their big guns. Date Munenari, the "most powerful man in Japan besides the Emperor", was selected to lead the National Liberals during the election. Oshiro Kazuki had surprisingly made no remarks about wanting to seek a fourth term as prime minister, and thus, Date Munenari stepped in.
The biggest divide and issue of this election was the idea of Asian unity. The National Liberals promoted a jingoistic approach to achieving this, claiming that imperialism was the best way to unite Asia under one banner, the banner of the Emperor. Like Korea, the Japanese would expand across Asia, absorbing weak barbaric nations and putting them under the protection of Japan to prevent Europeans from claiming them. The Freedom Party was based in the idea that Asian unity has to come through peace. They said that Imperialism would make Japan no better then the west, and that the Asian nations do not deserve to be subjugated. This was the pacifistic approach.
The campaign turned hard when Date Munenari called out Tanaka as a "traitor in an army uniform" for being a soldier and not supporting conquest. Tanaka called Munenari a "European imitator" for adopting imperialism like the west. The votes were extremely close in the regions were the Freedom Party and the National Liberals competed together. In Kanto, the region was divided 50-50 in what party had dominance. It was a fierce fight for sure.
The biggest looser of the election though was the Radical Progress Party, who had lost significant backing. Satake Yoshizone left the RPP and joined the Freedom Party. Some say he did not like the socialist connotation the RPP was getting from the public. Others say he simply did not really have an ideology he aligned with well. Regardless, the RPP leader decided to do a speech in public, which was ripped apart by Date Munenari, loosing more influence in the public. The RPP got only one man in the Diet.
In the end, the National Liberals were just shy of 238 votes, a majority in the Diet. Once again, the Kamikaze Party pulled through for the Nat-Libs and got them a majority. The National Liberals though are beginning to seem unbeatable, a problem that the Freedom Party will have to deal with. Perhaps by persuading the Kamikaze Party, they can finally obtain that sweet majority.
Player Actions Needed: Privy Council, select who you want to be Prime Minister. Keep in mind, if it is not Riccardo/Revan you earn MIL, if it is not an NLP member, you earn more MIL.
Sample Ballot:
((For Privy Council Only))
Prime Minister: [Insert Name Here]
[Rank of Nobility]
Voting ends Tuesday at 9:00 PM EST or Wednesday at 1:00 AM GMT, or when all the PC members have voted.
((We use first past the post, so no. The mechanics are explained on the first page, higher %s get their vote weighted up, lower %s get their vote weighted down.))
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((First off, use (()) when doing OOC.
Secondly, TJDS, based on the regionalism and weighted vote system, NLP and FP got 43% of the total VP in Kyushu, you got 14%. Based on the rules, that means the FP and NLP got a multiplier of 3, RPP got a multiplier of 0.5. That leaves the NLP and FP with 49% of the seats each, RPP got 2%, 2% of 49 is about 1 seat.))
Secondly, TJDS, based on the regionalism and weighted vote system, NLP and FP got 43% of the total VP in Kyushu, you got 14%. Based on the rules, that means the FP and NLP got a multiplier of 3, RPP got a multiplier of 0.5. That leaves the NLP and FP with 49% of the seats each, RPP got 2%, 2% of 49 is about 1 seat.))
In light of the recent cack-handed attempts by Prince Sakamoto to takeover and annex the NLP into his own failed conservative movement (the LA) and the infinitely more successful attempt by Admiral Unryu to unite the disparate forces of the Japanese Right in a working partnership, I think the time has come for the NLP and the KP to forge a fair and equal partnership of their own - a partnership that will last and a partnership that will work.
-- Hosokawa-dono
-- Hosokawa-dono
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((Oh, the PC has voted to grant Asano Hisanori the title of Count, and to award all those people following Munenari's suggestions))
((Private: Jiyudo))
((With the previously overlooked policy of rounding up VP, we essentially handed the NLP 17 some seats in Chugoku they would not have gotten had we run there; as running in 8 regions they had less than 3 VP but rounding up, greater than 2.5, VP. So by dividing our 17VP, including my VP that won't be at penalty next time, we can get 2.8 by running in 6 regions and thus round up to 3. Even without tempest having a VP penalty either, they shouldn't be able to get from less than 3 to 3.51, so we should still be able to tie with the NLP in all 6 regions next election. Of course hopefully new players will join the game, altering this calculation.))
((With the previously overlooked policy of rounding up VP, we essentially handed the NLP 17 some seats in Chugoku they would not have gotten had we run there; as running in 8 regions they had less than 3 VP but rounding up, greater than 2.5, VP. So by dividing our 17VP, including my VP that won't be at penalty next time, we can get 2.8 by running in 6 regions and thus round up to 3. Even without tempest having a VP penalty either, they shouldn't be able to get from less than 3 to 3.51, so we should still be able to tie with the NLP in all 6 regions next election. Of course hopefully new players will join the game, altering this calculation.))
((You can't do private OOCs, PM everyone if you don't want OOC to be seen by everyone. This is public))
((Primarily I just figured I didn't want to start a conversation with people about it more widely, just get practical business done, and the Jiyudo is against backroom wheeling-dealing, plus both parties have too many people to get anything done with the whole group in a transparent way in PM; and not everyone is on IRC.))
I congratulate Lord Date on his victory.
((Private-Freedom))
We performed well and took the opposition to liberal mismanagement to new heights, Hopfully next election will see the fruits of our long efforts consummated.
-Tanaka
((Private-Freedom))
We performed well and took the opposition to liberal mismanagement to new heights, Hopfully next election will see the fruits of our long efforts consummated.
-Tanaka
((Private Jiyudo))
We must make sure we get some defectors from the Kamikaze before the NLP successfully integrates them and becomes unstoppable.
~Sakamoto
We must make sure we get some defectors from the Kamikaze before the NLP successfully integrates them and becomes unstoppable.
~Sakamoto
((Private: Jiyudo))
The Kamikaze are if anything more opposed to our goals than the general NLP membership. A jingoist party and a pacifist party will not be able to make common cause. In my opinion we would be better off attempting to court dissenters within the NLP.
The Kamikaze are if anything more opposed to our goals than the general NLP membership. A jingoist party and a pacifist party will not be able to make common cause. In my opinion we would be better off attempting to court dissenters within the NLP.
((Private Jiyudo))
Or we can wait for a political scandal to devastate them (or even fabricate a scandal).
Or we can wait for a political scandal to devastate them (or even fabricate a scandal).
((Before I select a new Prime Minister, I would like to discuss a new mechanic: MIL influence.
So far, MIL has no in-thread consequence besides being a determinate of whether or not militarists can coup the government, so the government can raise the MIL to whatever and get away with it. The idea of the government is to keep the people happy, and when MIL is high, the people are not happy. So I have decided to implement a system to deal with this. Here is how it works:
I. MIL shall determine if total VP from the ruling party is taken away or not during the elections.
II. The amount of VP taken away shall be based on MIL. The formula is "VP Lost = VP-MIL". Most MIL is 10, least amount is 0. I will round up and down based on mathematical principle.
III. If MIL is at say, 3, and the total VP of party A is 23, the MIL penalty shall take away 3 from the total VP of 23, leaving a new total VP of 20.
IV. The reason for this is to encourage reforms/decisions that lower MIL to keep a party in power, and to give other parties a chance to fix the situation by getting elected into office since the ruling party let MIL get too high.
V. Successful Military Coups and Political Revolutions shall lower the MIL to 0.
Tell me what you guys think.))
So far, MIL has no in-thread consequence besides being a determinate of whether or not militarists can coup the government, so the government can raise the MIL to whatever and get away with it. The idea of the government is to keep the people happy, and when MIL is high, the people are not happy. So I have decided to implement a system to deal with this. Here is how it works:
I. MIL shall determine if total VP from the ruling party is taken away or not during the elections.
II. The amount of VP taken away shall be based on MIL. The formula is "VP Lost = VP-MIL". Most MIL is 10, least amount is 0. I will round up and down based on mathematical principle.
III. If MIL is at say, 3, and the total VP of party A is 23, the MIL penalty shall take away 3 from the total VP of 23, leaving a new total VP of 20.
IV. The reason for this is to encourage reforms/decisions that lower MIL to keep a party in power, and to give other parties a chance to fix the situation by getting elected into office since the ruling party let MIL get too high.
V. Successful Military Coups and Political Revolutions shall lower the MIL to 0.
Tell me what you guys think.))
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