Commonwealth Union Election (1000 seats in parliament) as of 1971
the PDP: Peaceful Development Party: 10%, 95 seats, far left
the PP: Progressive Party: 4%, 45 seats, left wing
the CP: Commonwealth Party: 4%, 39 seats, center
the EAP: Economicists Aid Party: 13%, 153 seats, right wing
the UP: Unionist Party: 69%, 668 seats, far right
Government is a rainbow alliance consisting of the PDP, PP, the EAP and the UP. (961 MPs)
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Voting on outstanding issues commencing...
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#1 Proposal: A movement for 'The States of the Commonwealth Union' to change it's cumbersome and unfitting name to the 'Union of the Greater Good' to be known as the UGG.
Counterporposal put forth by MP Largo San, the CU is to be renamed 'the Union of Progressive States'.
UP, PP, EAP, PDP... 961 votes for (667 needed)
CP... 39 votes against (333 needed)
#2 Proposal: A movement for the 'Constitutional Democracy' headed by the long-diseased or disposed of members of the British Royal Family be replaced with a 'Constiutional Presidential Democracy' where the President is granted only nominally more power than a figurhead regent mainly for the purposes of charity and unilateral trade.
UP, EAP, PP... 866 votes for (667 needed)
CP, PDP... 134 against (333 needed)
MP Largo San is nominated by the UP, this is to be voted upon later.
#3 Proposal: A movement to launch investigations to clarify the spending of two thirds of the Net Product of Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar and Qatar on unknown investments and to set up a monitoring agency for the financial and military ministries of New Zealand, Gambia, Qatar, Guinea-Bissau and Madagascar.
Due to the lack of reply from the locally appointed magistrates, beurocrats and electives (i.e./oc no reply from Goober) the Union Party concludes that Criminal Activity is beyond reasonable doubt. Proposal #3 is amended to include official investigations by UPS (Union of Progressive States) agencies to be launched and the two-thirds redistribution system to be SUSPENDED.
PDP, PP, CP, EAP, UP... 1000 votes for (501 needed)
#3 Proposal is passed UNANIMOUSLY! (oc: let there be action)
#4 Proposal... no taxation without repreresentation. A proposal put forth by the Progressive Party. Colonials will send 250 representatives to Parliament to vote on all day-to-day and special issues of the UPS. The Parliament is expanded to 1250 seats/MPs.
All parties were for (PDP, PP, CP, EAP, UP) ... but there was a split vote in the CP.
Votes for... 988 for (667 needed)
Votes against... 12 against (333 needed)
#5 Proposal... that Parliament be renamed to Congress seeing as how the UPS is now a Constitutional Presidential Multiparty Democracy.
PP, UP, PDP, EAP... 960 votes against (667 needed)
CP... 40 votes against (333 needed)
#6 Proposal... A volounteer education program to be established to educate all children of the union.
PDP, PP, CP, EAP, UP... 1000 votes for - Unanimous!
(to be discussed later)
#7 Proposal... That the EAP sends it's experts and select member to the outer states to rebuild the kaplooded economy.
PDP is for...
PP is for...
CP is for...
EAP is for...
UP is for...
Unanimous vote!
(#7 is to be organized by the select members of the EAP)