The
535 SR Hynachtheran federal election was held in 11 November to elect the members of the House of Representatives of the 50
th Parliament of the Seventh Federation. Incumbent Prime Minister
Lia Christalli ran for a third term, with 497 multi-member proportional seats at stake, as well as 3 single transferable vote seats in Saarenmaa, Strontfort, and Halvanylila Lake.
The election saw the socially centrist
Popular Labour win a plurality of 230 seats. However, they lost the popular vote to the social liberal
Wisteria Revolutionary Party, marking the first time the party which won the plurality in the House lost the popular vote in half a century. With the traditionalist
Velvet Nationals backing a Popular Labour government (for a total of 244 MPs), while the centrist
Radical Centrist Front and regionalist
Alliance of Regions backing a Wisteria Revolutionary government (for a total of 244 MPs also), the militant
Protectionist Vanguard became kingmaker in the House, as their 12 MPs were needed to get the necessary 251 votes to elect an MP as Prime Minister. After intense debating on an ad hoc party congress, Vanguard leader
Dávid Hajdú stated that the party would not back either two contenders and that, instead, another election should be called.
With the House of Representatives in chaos and with the country having no Prime Minister (As per tradition, the Prime Minister usually resigns their position at the end of the final session of that Parliament), a compromise was eventually reached by both sides. The
Chancellor of the Federal Council (the upper house of the legislature),
Park Chaewon, 7th Marchioness of Kwangya, who already had planned to resign the chancellorship following the election, would be begrudgingly elected interim Prime Minister (nowhere in the constitution does it say that the prime minister had to come from the House, just from the Parliament) by members of Popular Labour and Wisteria Revolutionary while the MPs in the House debate amongst themselves who would be made Prime Minister.
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A/N: Finally, some
fun. The 535-53X SR Hynachtheran constitutional crisis should resolve itself soon. I hear there are those in the Federal Council who are very much all about that "will of the people" and are prepared to back Chontakos. After all, to be elected prime minister, you need the majority (i.e. 50%+1) of both the House of Representatives and the Federal Council.
Oh, and if you notice a similarity between Twice upon a Velvet Pink Moon's President of Korea and the incumbent Prime Minister of Hynachthera, no you didn't.
