Elections are a Socialist Victory
July 2, 4564
The results for this years elections are in and the results are quite surprising: the Workers' Liberation Front won the plurality and presidency. Since the return to republicanism and recreation of the Legislative Assembly after the death of Sultan Azeez, the National Assembly has been dominated mostly by small parties centered around individual warlords and military officers rather than actual ideologies. The switch to ideologically based parties began two election cycles ago in 4556 when ideology based parties won forty percent of the vote. The next election in 4560 saw them move up to a little more than half of the vote. This election, the ideology based parties solidified their dominance in winning seventy-five percent of the vote, which has forced the smaller warlord parties to unify under a single leader and party. In a meeting between Medina's warlords which was held in the capital last night, right before the election results came in, it was decided that Medina's warlords would rally under the leadership of ex-President and current Field Marshal Sabithan Chaudhari who has already come out to denounce the election results and claim that the Workers' Liberation Front had agents planted in the vote tallying group who had tampered with the ballots in order to sway the elections away from himself and in favor of the socialists.
The success of the Workers' Liberation Front seems to have shocked the nation, as they have won both one-hundred-twenty-seven seats in the Legislative Assembly and secured the Presidency. President-elect Sree Singh has already met with the incumbent President Yahan Patil, a warlord who has dissolved his party before the July first election, and the powerless Sultan Barani Narang, a descendant of the general Kharanyan Narang who seized power after the death of Sultan Azeez but returned power to the legislature and reduced his position to one of ceremony, and has assured the nation that a peaceful transfer of power would occur once Singh takes office on the first of January. But these victories do not mean that the leadership of the socialists will be a smooth road. Already, the Party of Sabithan Chaudhari and Akim's Faithful have made it clear that they would not work with a socialist government, and many even suggest that these two parties will cause trouble for the socialists in more ways than just blocking legislation. The only route for the socialists to take in order to form a functioning government would be to win over the support of the Medina National Liberty Front and the Revolutionary Communist Party, but both of these parties have had disputes with the socialists in the past.
Results of the 4564 Elections
Workers' Liberation Front 127 seats
Party of Sabithan Chaudhari 103 seats
Medina National Liberty Party 64 seats
Akim's Faithful 63 seats
Revolutionary Communist Party 43 seats