Re: Hulsterreicher and Mikunier Chronik / Hulstrian and Gao-Soto
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2018 8:10 pm
EDIT: Post under revision after deactivation of Labour Party. With agreement of the other player, it will be RPed that the HDV won another majority.
HDV reclaims plurality as expected
While Staatsminister Heumayr (second from the left) was waiting for the count in his Wahlkreis of Heuboden West-Oberflachland, the HDV appeared satisfied with its results
Kien, Hulstria - The HDV has met expectations by defying a strong opposition upsurge and winning a plurality of the seats in the Imperial Diet for the third time running in what was a very competitive election night. With a contingent of 233 MdRs in the new Diet, the HDV yet again has emerged the strongest political party. However, compared to last election, the party experienced a large vote shift that led to a large loss of seats and it failed to re-elected its nominee Lothar von Geraniengau zu Hortensiengau to the Governor-General's office. Nevertheless, Staatsminister and HDV Leader Clemens Heumayr claimed the result as a victory for the HDV, congratulating his opponents and saying he "would not have the election any other way than competitive."
Nobody was expecting the HDV to be able to maintain its majority against the opposition, which gained strength as the campaign continued. Not even, as many at HDV Central Office at Herzog von Anderinch House in central Kien, the Hosian Democrats themselves. The loss of the Governor-General race seems to have raised some eyebrows, but its general character as an above-parties elder statesman office is such that the plurality in the Diet was the result that counted for the Hosian Democrats. The outgoing Governor-General, Viscount von Geraniengau zu Hortensiengau, was gracious and even a little self-effacing in defeat: "You know, I enjoyed it. If it's time for someone else, it's time for someone else. I can leave the official residence and retire to Haus zu Geraniengau."
Heumayr himself said he fully accepted the task of a coalition, claiming it was the natural way of things in Hulstria and Gao-Soto: "Our land of two peoples is at its best united and free. It's best work is united, working together, building bridges between all sorts of views. We have always become the stronger for it, and I am looking forward to working with others to keep the Crownlander Phoenix bright and blazing!" It is rumoured that the hint at continuity will see the Hosian Democrats working with the Progressive Party first: the new party is decidedly more economically liberal than the Labour Party and would allow the popular Finance Minister, Severin Goddestreu, to continue his economic plans. Bürggraf Goddestreu himself is rumoured to be in the wings to take over the Staatsministerium from Heumayr, who would then become the party's Klubobmann.
HDV reclaims plurality as expected
While Staatsminister Heumayr (second from the left) was waiting for the count in his Wahlkreis of Heuboden West-Oberflachland, the HDV appeared satisfied with its results
Kien, Hulstria - The HDV has met expectations by defying a strong opposition upsurge and winning a plurality of the seats in the Imperial Diet for the third time running in what was a very competitive election night. With a contingent of 233 MdRs in the new Diet, the HDV yet again has emerged the strongest political party. However, compared to last election, the party experienced a large vote shift that led to a large loss of seats and it failed to re-elected its nominee Lothar von Geraniengau zu Hortensiengau to the Governor-General's office. Nevertheless, Staatsminister and HDV Leader Clemens Heumayr claimed the result as a victory for the HDV, congratulating his opponents and saying he "would not have the election any other way than competitive."
Nobody was expecting the HDV to be able to maintain its majority against the opposition, which gained strength as the campaign continued. Not even, as many at HDV Central Office at Herzog von Anderinch House in central Kien, the Hosian Democrats themselves. The loss of the Governor-General race seems to have raised some eyebrows, but its general character as an above-parties elder statesman office is such that the plurality in the Diet was the result that counted for the Hosian Democrats. The outgoing Governor-General, Viscount von Geraniengau zu Hortensiengau, was gracious and even a little self-effacing in defeat: "You know, I enjoyed it. If it's time for someone else, it's time for someone else. I can leave the official residence and retire to Haus zu Geraniengau."
Heumayr himself said he fully accepted the task of a coalition, claiming it was the natural way of things in Hulstria and Gao-Soto: "Our land of two peoples is at its best united and free. It's best work is united, working together, building bridges between all sorts of views. We have always become the stronger for it, and I am looking forward to working with others to keep the Crownlander Phoenix bright and blazing!" It is rumoured that the hint at continuity will see the Hosian Democrats working with the Progressive Party first: the new party is decidedly more economically liberal than the Labour Party and would allow the popular Finance Minister, Severin Goddestreu, to continue his economic plans. Bürggraf Goddestreu himself is rumoured to be in the wings to take over the Staatsministerium from Heumayr, who would then become the party's Klubobmann.