After 4 years of Conservative rule, President Kasun Hettiarachchi announced the next Presidential election, where he will be attempting to secure another 4 year term as president. The Labour Party, after revamping the party over the past 4 years, has reentered the race for President.
Conservative Party - Kasun Hettiarachchi, Centre Right
Labour Party - Kusal Sisira - Centre Left
Tamil Centrist Party - Ahar Srinivasan - Centrist
Democratic Socialist - Gayan Ajith - Socialist
Peoples Party - Arjuna Fonseka - Far Right
Moor Party - Sujith Nishan - Moor Independence Movement
As decided by the people, and in accordance to the Electoral Reform Act (this doesn’t change much, just the policies Sri Lanka will support over the next 4 years)
POLLS ARE CLOSED. AS OF NOW
Election Results: https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalSimulationUN/comments/qyg32h/2046_sri_lanka_prime_minister_election/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
The 2019 Sri Lankan presidential election will be the 8th presidential election, scheduled to be held on 16 November 2019. The incumbent President Maithripala Sirisena's term of office will end on 9 January 2020. This is the first Presidential election in Sri Lanka where no sitting president, prime minister or opposition leader is contesting for President
The 2046 Sri Lankan parliamentary election was held to elect the next President of the Nation.
Labour Party: 11/25 Seats, 31.2%
Conservative Party: 9/25 Seats, 31.6%
Tamil National Alliance: 3/25 Seats, 19.2%
Democratic Socialist: 1/25 Seats, 10.1%
People’s Union: 1/25 Seats, 8.1%
The Labour Party is elected, with a minority government. (MapChart doesn’t have a SriLankan parliamentary map so I had to use the 25 districts.
Are there any terrorist threats or rumors about attacking religious places, or religious statues being attacked randomly?
Well then an election is coming. Vote to save the country and nation, this is the last opportunity.
Farmer-Labor primary
4,052 delegates in total
- Dick Gephardt: 1,938 delegates
- Al Gore: 1,174 delegates
- Michael Dukakis: 940 delegates
Farmer-Labor National Convention
Entering the convention, Gephardt was just short of winning a majority of delegates, having about 48% of delegates pledged to him. Gephardt won the most delegates on a socially moderate, pro-labor populist campaign, which was the FLP's bread and butter. Gore came in second winning over conservatives and white Southerners, and some people who worked in the high tech industry who liked his idea for the federal government to highly invest in high tech to create economic growth. Dukakis won the most socially liberal FLP voters by campaigning on his Massachusetts Miracle, but his soft-on-crime policies in his home state lost him many voters, which put him in last place.
If Gore wanted to, he could give his delegates to Dukakis, which would make Dukakis the nominee, and if Dukakis wanted to, he could give his delegates to Gore, which would make Gore the nominee. Gore realized that as the most conservative candidate he had almost no chance of winning the nomination, and would have to pledge his delegates to one of the other candidates and get them the nomination. He was very different than Dukakis on social issues and much closer to the moderate Gephardt on social issues, but when it came to economics, Gephardt was the most left-wing out of all the candidates (despite voting for DRP tax cuts in 1981) which drove Gore away from him. Gore would either have to sacrifice his social views and get Dukakis the nomination, or he would have to sacrifice some of his economic views and get Gephardt the nomination. With crime rapidly rising in America, Gore decided to side with his social views pledge his delegates to Gephardt, who was conservative on crime. Dick Gephardt became the 1988 Farmer-Labor Party presidential nominee.
After getting the nomination, Gephardt promised to Gore that he would increase federal investment in high tech if he was elected president, which was a show of gratitude towards Gore for pledging his delegates to him, and insurance to make sure Gore wouldn't try to primary him in 1992 if he was elected president and wasn't conservative enough for Gore's taste.
Gephardt knew that because he had defeated a social conse
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What would he do in office if he did win?
