Chapter 637: Manipulating the political arena
After Princess Anne returned and ran as a candidate for Prime Minister, the major non-Northern forces began to quickly unite.
They formed an alliance-like existence, expressing their political demands and interests by supporting Princess Anne's candidacy, and soon compromised with each other to come up with a policy agenda that represented their own interests.
The reason why he said this is because Purficott saw that the policy platform used by Princess Anne to participate in the election and the political propositions she put forward were full of compromises of various interests.
Purficott does not hate this result, at least in her opinion, this is an improvement.
At least it's Princess Anne's progress.
Although she did not clearly express her political views, at least as a prime minister candidate, she united the opinions of quite a few different factions.
Although this opinion itself has the meaning of uniting to fight against the forces in the north, it is not easy to truly make the interests of so many factions consistent with the outside world.
At least from a politician's perspective, being able to unify so many different factions is not an easy task in itself.
And this also means that Princess Anne has finally begun to truly play her political role as a member of the royal family, instead of playing a dispensable mascot.
As a result, three interest groups have now formed in the North, namely the alliance between the North and the Dominion, the alliance of factions opposing the North, and other third-party forces that small factions have united to keep warm.
In a sense, this can be regarded as the prototype of the three political parties.
In the Victoria Empire, political parties did not appear on the historical stage due to the restrictions and influence of the political system and past political systems.
Now, with the implementation of the National Assembly system and the implementation of the prime minister-cabinet system, political parties have gradually begun to take shape through this method and have begun to enter the stage of history.
Currently, among the 100 seats in the National Assembly, the alliance between the Northern Territory and the Dominion, as the faction that wants to promote reform, holds 35 seats. Because the interests of both parties are basically the same, the votes for these 35 seats are basically the same. can be consistent.
The relatively conservative political factions jointly hold 42 seats, but there are often certain differences in interests between the factions, so the 42 seats rarely vote unanimously when voting. a certain point of view.
There is usually some dispersion, resulting in the final influence being even slightly less than the thirty-five seats in the north.
As for the remaining 23 seats, the third parties hold together for warmth. Although in most cases their interests are not consistent and the votes are more dispersed, this also makes them the targets of the two factions.
Due to the restriction that 51 seats in Parliament must be in favor to pass a resolution, neither the Reform Party nor the Conservative Party can obtain enough support in Parliament to pass the bill on its own.
Both of them must win over the centrist factions in order to obtain enough votes to pass the motion they advocate.
This is of course a great improvement compared to the previous aristocratic parliament and the democratically elected parliament. At least if Perficott warned the parliament of the impending doomsday crisis as he did a few years ago, he would not be laughed at anymore.
All this undoubtedly made Purficott very satisfied, and it was true that she was secretly promoting the formation of all this.
The reason why I say this is because in addition to the thirty-five parliamentary seats held by the Northern Territory and the Dominion, Perficott can influence at least ten seats.
Some of them are local merchants in the empire and some middle-class nobles who have interests involved with Perfecticot. They had interests with Perfecticot before moving to the north and have always been supported by Perfecticot. It's just that it's not shown on the surface. These people are now committed to the Conservative Party and control the six seats held by the Conservative Party.
Among the third parties, Purficott can also influence four seats, which come from the military and the Assassin Brotherhood.
Needless to say, the relationship between Purficot and the military was indispensable, and the Assassin Brotherhood itself represented the political demands of part of the emerging bourgeoisie. After cooperating with Purficot, they also had a place in the political arena.
Literally a seat, they control a seat in parliament.
In other words, if Purficott really wants to, she can at least get more than 40% of the seats in the parliament to vote according to her will.
To veto her will, the Conservatives must get almost all third-party seats to fully support them, and they must also be unanimous within themselves.
And if Purficott wants to pass a certain resolution, he can directly pass the resolution he wants as long as he makes some appropriate solicitations.
In other words, Purficott can now directly control the parliament to operate according to her will, and indirectly control the country.
But for Purficott, this actually doesn't mean much.
That’s why she can create an atmosphere and situation in which the Conservative Party and the Reform Party are evenly matched, thereby avoiding political dominance.
Even for the Prime Minister election, she had no intention of interfering with the results. Instead, she planned to really let Wellington and Karen run against Princess Anne on their own merits, and had no intention of interfering with the voting results.
After all, she had already done everything she could, so if she couldn't choose...it would be better not to choose.
And on the other hand, Purficott is more concerned and concerned about the upcoming cold season than the election of the prime minister.
Although the North currently relies on energy towers, underground shelters and heating fields, overall life is still going well in the apocalyptic winter, and most people even think that this can only be regarded as a mild winter.
But in fact, outside the real environment without the protection of heating fields and buildings, the ambient temperature has dropped below minus 60 degrees.
This is a very scary number. In such an environment, the water vapor in the breath exhaled by a person will freeze instantly. If there are not enough heating measures, people will suffer from frostbite or even freeze to death in a short period of time.
Many metals will also become brittle at this temperature, lose their original toughness, and become dangerous.
If the temperature continues to drop, even the carbon dioxide in the air will solidify into dry ice, and then there will be a spectacle of carbon dioxide snow falling from the sky.
And now, with the arrival of the original winter and now the cold season, the continued decline of ambient temperature will lead to such a scene actually coming.
Rather than the prime ministerial election, Purficott is more concerned about whether people in the north can cope with such extreme cold.
(End of chapter)