Rise of Australia

Chapter 165 Election Begins

On June 1903, 6, after a gap of three years, elections for a cabinet government in Australia began again.

Compared with the last election, this time the cabinet election is much more formal.

Because political parties have been gradually formalized and have attracted some members of the House of Commons and ordinary people to join, this cabinet government election also allows each political party to recommend a candidate to join the cabinet election.

This also provides an opportunity for political parties that do not have members of the House of Commons to join this election. Although there is only one place, it is considered a luxury.

It is also because of this policy that this election has a total of 190 eight members of the House of Commons, candidates recommended by seven political parties, eleven members of the current cabinet, and Arthur.

Except for Arthur, who is only the supervisor and witness of this election and does not participate in the election and voting, everyone else is a participant in this election.

This also means that the difficulty of this election has increased to a certain extent. In addition to the experience advantages of the previous cabinet ministers, some MPs who already have political party backgrounds also have the opportunity to become members of the new cabinet.

In the huge meeting room of the government affairs building, the originally huge meeting room was already full of members who came to attend the government affairs meeting. More than 200 people filled this large meeting room, and the air and atmosphere became much hotter.

Because the members of the House of Commons are elected every two years, there are many unfamiliar faces in the meeting room, and more than 200 people are also divided into large and small groups tacitly. movement.

Among them, there are not too many groups that can really form a large scale at present. Except for the original cabinet members and the four parties with members of the House of Commons, most of the other small groups are the personal relationships between members. Very small, mostly just two or three people.

When the chatter in the conference room reached a chorus of chatter, Arthur also led Butler Hunter to the scene.

After seeing Arthur's arrival, everyone in the meeting room kept quiet tacitly, making the originally noisy meeting room quiet down instantly.

"Your Highness!"

Everyone stood up and saluted.

Arthur nodded with a smile, motioned for everyone to sit down, and then led Butler Hunter to the podium in the center of the conference room.

"Everyone, you are all elected by Australians to represent the interests of the people, or representatives of local Australian political parties. I am very happy to see you on this very important day for the Australian people and the Australian government. Everyone is coming." Arthur said with a smile.

"The last cabinet government election was three years ago today, and it was precisely because of that election that eleven of the best cabinet members were elected for our Australian government. I believe their achievements need not be said. They An indelible contribution to Australia."

"Today, we have come to such an important day again, and we are about to elect the second Australian cabinet government. I hope that no matter who is going to that honorable position, they can be loyal to the country, respect the royal family, and love the people. , and push our beloved motherland, Australia, to prosperity and greatness!"

As soon as Arthur's words fell, Nuo Da's conference room was immediately filled with unfailing applause.

After waiting for several minutes, the applause gradually weakened under Arthur's gesture.

Arthur continued: "I believe that before arriving in the conference room, all of you should have already thought about whether to run for the election. The election rules this time are different from last time. Each candidate chooses up to two Candidates for positions within their capacity become official candidates for that position. But the position of prime minister is an exception, and any candidate for prime minister cannot join the election for other positions.”

"Okay, let's not talk nonsense. The second cabinet election in Australia has officially started." Arthur said with a smile, and at the same time signaled Butler Hunter to take the stage to preside over it.

Among the current Australian government and royal family, apart from Arthur, the only ones who have enough status to preside over this meeting are Prime Minister Evan and Butler Hunter.

But Prime Minister Evan was the prime minister of the previous cabinet government and a candidate for this cabinet election.His identity is obviously not suitable to preside over this meeting, and the only remaining suitable presider is Butler Hunter.

Butler Hunter, as the chief steward of the royal family, also represents the royal family to the outside world.There is nothing wrong with letting him preside over this meeting, after all, the royal family is still a relatively neutral party in this election.

Butler Hunter nodded solemnly, and stood on the podium after Arthur returned to his seat.

"Ladies and gentlemen, following the order of His Royal Highness, the second Australian cabinet election has officially begun. The guards will soon distribute an election form to each of you, and you can fill in the positions you want to run for. As His Royal Highness said If you have already run for the position of prime minister, you cannot participate in the election for other positions." Butler Hunter introduced the rules.

"If everyone has no doubts about the rules, then the official election can begin." Butler Hunter inspected the circle and found that no one had any doubts about the rules, so he nodded and signaled the guards to issue the order.

Such a form is actually very simple, and only the full name, address, age, party affiliation (if any) and the two positions you want to run for are required to be filled out.

But it was such a form that confirmed that most people in the conference room hesitated for a long time, and were still not sure which two positions they wanted to run for.

Among them, the ones that were filled out relatively simply, without any hesitation, were actually the former cabinet ministers, as well as some congressmen who had already discussed with the political parties.

They have specific goals for the positions they want to run for, and changing them easily will make them lose their advantages.

It took nearly an hour to fill out the form, and most of the people hurriedly filled it out and handed it in under the urging of Hunter's housekeeper.

These people are obviously underprepared, and they are more of the kind of weak parliamentarians, and they don't have an advantage in this election.

Nearly half of the MPs did not fill out this form, which also means they gave up the chance to stand for election.

Many of this group of people are also congressmen without political parties and experience. They have a very clear understanding of their own situation and know that even if they run for election, they will basically not succeed, so they gave up this opportunity very wisely.

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