Rise of Australia

Chapter 225 The general election is approaching

After dealing with this crisis, the attention of the Australasian political circle has returned to the cabinet election two months later.

This cabinet election is very attractive to all major political parties and individuals.

According to the system that Australasia inherited from Australia, after the prime minister has successfully re-elected for two terms, if there is no special permission from Arthur, Prime Minister Evan will temporarily bid farewell to the position of prime minister of the government, or condescend to become the minister of the department, or can only wait It's time for the next election.

But will Prime Minister Evan, who has experienced the power and status of the prime minister, really put down his face and become the minister of the department?

What I am most looking forward to in this cabinet election is actually the ministers with real power in the cabinet government.

If Prime Minister Evan cannot be re-elected, they will be the most likely candidates to become the new Prime Minister.

Even if the power of the Prime Minister of Australasia has been greatly restricted, it is still a political position that is under one person and above ten thousand people. It is impossible for these cabinet ministers not to be moved.

In fact, after entering 1907, the atmosphere of the cabinet election in Australasia has gradually become stronger.

When the time came to the end of April, the atmosphere of the general election became even hotter. The major political parties that had patiently prepared for four years also began to gear up, preparing to launch an impact on the highest political arena in Australasia.

The election of Minister Wiley in the previous government came as a surprise to the parties, but this time they are ready.

In particular, the Gael Party (a merger of the Independence Party and the Progressive Party), which currently occupies a relatively large number of seats in the House of Representatives, is also one of the parties most likely to obtain ministerial positions.

Elections in Australasia are not like elections in other countries.In Australasian politics, the prime minister's powers are sufficiently limited by cabinet ministers and hold only executive power.

The power of the prime minister, which is as huge as other countries, is actually divided among the entire cabinet members.

If Australasia were a democracy, such a system would have many shortcomings.

The first is the issue of inconsistency in order. Cabinet ministers can unite to resist the rule of the prime minister, and fundamentally, the cabinet ministers are not the same as the prime minister.

Because all cabinet positions are independently elected, this means that cabinet members may be enemies or friends of each other, or they may be strangers who do not know each other at all.

This also reflects the importance of Arthur.The cabinet was responsible to Arthur and the Royal Council, and Arthur was in complete control of the Royal Council.

This means that Arthur is in complete control of the cabinet, and Arthur is the highest point of national administration.

The current cabinet government can be divided into three factions, the first being the former colonial prime ministers.With a little prestige from the previous colonial period, they occupy several important departments in Australasia and are one of the most powerful factions in the cabinet government.

The second faction is those cabinet members elected by the common people.Including Secretary of Agriculture Henris, Secretary of Transportation Conlett, and Minister of Health Willie.

Most of these people have higher loyalty to Arthur, and they are down-to-earth pragmatists, and they really want to make some political achievements.

The third faction was appointed by Arthur and was completely loyal to Arthur's cabinet ministers.

In fact, there are not many people in this faction, and they only control the two departments of national defense and finance.

But these two departments are precisely the most important in the Australasian cabinet government. One represents military power and the other represents financial power.

Although Kent, Minister of Defense, and Roger, Minister of Finance, are not keen on fighting for power, no one can deny their status in the cabinet government.

Even Prime Minister Evan was unwilling to conflict with Minister Kent and Minister Roger, after all, these two also represented Arthur in the cabinet government.

Party rights in Australasia are also much smaller than in other countries.

First, all legal political parties in Australasia are subject to the oversight of the Royal House of Representatives.

This supervision is not a name. The Royal House has the power to supervise, punish, declare legal and establish, declare illegal and force dissolution of political parties.

This also means that the Royal House of Representatives has the power of life and death over all political parties, and political parties cannot make too much splash in Australasia.

Secondly, disguised bribery such as political donations is not allowed.

Australasia has an Electoral Federation overseeing all elections, established and run by the Royal House and House of Representatives.

The members of the election federation are composed of the royal family, the cabinet government, the Royal House of Representatives, and the House of Representatives. They are directly responsible to the royal family and accept the supervision of the Royal House of Representatives and the House of Representatives.

The only way a political party can get legitimate development funding is to call on voters to donate to electoral unions.

Seventy percent of all the money received by the election federation will be distributed according to the proportion of seats held by the parties in the House of Representatives, and the remaining [-] percent will be distributed equally among all legal parties.

You must know that because of the small power of the political party, even the United Party, which currently occupies the most seats in the House of Representatives, only accounts for 20.00% of the four.

This means that bribery by capitalists is basically impossible.

While political parties may get the lion's share of donations, they will never exceed 20.00%.

This has also turned the political donations that are common in other countries into common development in Australasia. While developing itself, it is also funding the enemy.

This regulation makes the major political parties very uncomfortable, but because it is supervised by the Royal Council and the election is also subject to interference by the election federation, they can only accept it with gritted teeth.

As for taking bribes in private, political parties have no courage to do it.

Don't underestimate the degree of supervision by the Royal Parliament and the Electoral Federation, coupled with the promulgation of the Electoral Law and the Political Party Law, strict laws have been used to put an end to this behavior.

Arthur’s punishment for electoral bribery is quite severe. Once discovered, not only will all illegal gains be confiscated, but the political party involved will be directly declared illegal and forced to disband, and its main members will not be allowed to participate in elections of any scale in Australasia. bid farewell.

This is just a political punishment.For a person, he has to be tried according to the amount of remittance received, ranging from imprisonment to life imprisonment or even the death penalty.

In addition, the current capital of Australasia is still very weak. Apart from the royal consortium, there is no capital capable of challenging the government, not even the guts.

Due to various restrictions, the major political parties in Australasia currently have little election funding, and most of them come from voluntary political donations from Australasians.

However, although such donations are relatively frequent, the amount is really not very large, and the accumulated donations per year are only less than 50 Australian dollars. Even the current most popular Gathering Party, the annual budget that can be obtained does not exceed [-] Australian dollars.

Although it looked like a lot, [-] Australian dollars of it came from Arthur's support.

Without Arthur's [-] Australian dollars, the financial situation faced by the major political parties would be even worse.

Of course, Australasia's current booming prospects also play a role in limiting the size of parties.

Australasian people are very satisfied with the speed of development in Australasia, and the common people are satisfied with their own lives, so naturally they have no idea to participate in politics.

The lack of support from more low-level civilians is also the main reason why the current major political parties are not large in scale and their support is not too high.

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