Chapter 240: Chapter 224: The Election Approaches


    After dealing with this crisis, the focus of the Austrsian political arena returned to the Cab elections in two months.


    This Cab election is highly attractive for all major political parties and individuals.


    ording to the system inherited by Austrsia from Australia, after Prime Minister Evan sessfully serves two terms, if he doesn’t have Arthur’s special permission, he will have to temporarily bid farewell to the position of Prime Minister of the Government, either be a department Minister or wait for the next election.


    But having experienced the power and status of Prime Minister, would Evan really be willing to step down and be a department Minister?n/?/vel/b//in dot c//om


    Actually, those most looking forward to this Cab election are a few influential Cab Ministers of the government.


    If Prime Minister Evan cannot continue his term, they will be the ones most likely to be the new Prime Minister.


    Even though the power of Austrsia’s Prime Minister is greatly limited, it is still a position in politics where one is second only to the highest and above everyone else. These Cab Ministers cannot resist the temptation.


    Actually, after entering 1907, the atmosphere of the Austrsian Cab elections has gradually intensified.


    As time goes by, towardste April, the election atmosphere has be even hotter. Parties have been patiently preparing for four years, and they have started to gear up, ready to attack the highest political stage of Austrsia.


    Minister Willy’s victory in thest government was unexpected for the political parties, but this time they are prepared.<div>


    Especially the Unity Party (a merger of Independent Party and Progressive Party), which currently holds arge number of seats in the House of Representatives and is one of the parties most likely to receive Minister positions.


    Austrsia’s elections are different from those in other countries. In Austrsia’s political arena, the Prime Minister’s power is severely restricted by Cab Ministers, and they only hold administrative power.


    The enormous power of the Prime Minister in other countries is actually divided among the entire Cab members.


    If Austrsia were a democratic country, such a system would have many drawbacks.


    The first issue is the inconsistency in issuing orders. Cab Ministers can unite to resist the Prime Minister’s rule, and fundamentally, Cab Ministers and the Prime Minister are not on the same side.


    As all Cab positions are elected independently, it means that Cab members might be enemies or friends, or even total strangers who don’t know each other at all.


    This also reflects Arthur’s importance. The Cab is responsible to Arthur and the Royal Parliament, while Arthurpletely controls the Royal Parliament.


    This means that Arthur hasplete control over the Cab, and Arthur is the highest point of national administration.


    The current Cab Government can be divided into three factions. The first faction consists of the former Prime Ministers from the colonial period. By relying on their past prestige from the colonial period, they upy several important positions in the Cab Government and are one of the most powerful factions.


    The second faction is the Cab members elected by the lower-ss citizens, including Agriculture Minister Henry, Minister of Transportation Connelly, and Minister Willy of Health.


    Most of these people have higher loyalty to Arthur and are truly pragmatic, genuinely wanting to achieve some aplishments.


    The third faction is the Cab Ministers appointed by Arthur, who arepletely loyal to Arthur.


    Actually, the number of people in this faction is notrge, and they only control two departments, Defense and Finance.


    But these two departments happen to be the most important in the Austrsian Cab Government, one representing military power and the other representing financial power.


    Although Minister Kent of Defence and Finance Minister Roger are not keen on fighting for power, no one can deny their positions in the Cab Government.


    Even Prime Minister Evan is unwilling to have conflicts with Minister Kent and Minister Roger. After all, these two represent Arthur within the Cab Government.


    Compared to other countries, the power of political parties in Austrsia is much smaller.


    Firstly, all legal political parties in Austrsia are subject to the supervision of the Royal Parliament.


    This supervision is not just a title, as the Royal Parliament has the power to supervise, punish, dere legal and establish, and dere illegal and forcefully dissolve political parties.<div>


    This also means that the Royal Parliament has the power of life and death over all political parties, so these parties cannot make much of a ssh in Austrsia.


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


    Austrsia has an Election Federation which oversees all elections, established and supervised by the Royal Parliament and the House of Representatives.


    The members of the Election Federation areposed of the royal family, the cab government, the Royal Parliament, and the House of Representatives, and are directly responsible to the royal family while being supervised by the Royal Parliament and the House of Representatives.<div>


    The only way for a political party to obtain legal development funds is to call on voters to donate to the Election Federation.


    All the funds received by the Election Federation, 70% are distributed ording to the proportion of seats upied by the political parties in the House of Representatives, and the remaining 30% are equally allocated to all legal political parties.


    It should be noted that due to the limited power of political parties, even the current Unity Party, which upies the most seats in the House of Representatives, only has 24% of the seats.


    This indicates that bribery by capitalists is basically impossible.


    Although a political party may get the lion’s share of donated funds, it will never exceed 25%.


    This has turned themon practice of political donations in other countries into a joint development in Austrsia, where while developing oneself, one is also funding the enemy.


    This regtion has caused great difort to all major political parties, but due to the supervision of the Royal Parliament and the necessity to ept the interference of the Election Federation during the election, they can only grit their teeth and ept it.


    As for epting bribes in private, political parties do not dare to do so.


    Do not underestimate the level of supervision from the Royal Parliament and the Election Federation, coupled with the enactment of electionws and partyws, using strictws to eradicate such behavior.


    Arthur is very harsh on election bribery punishment. Once discovered, not only will all illegal proceeds be confiscated but the political party involved will be dered illegal and forcefully dissolved, and its main members will be barred from participating in any scale of elections in Austrsia, severing all ties with their political career.


    This is only the political punishment. For individuals, depending on the size of the proceeds received, one could face trial with sentences ranging from imprisonment to life imprisonment or even death.


    In addition, the capital of Austrsia is still very weak at present, and apart from the royal financial group, there is no capital that can challenge the government, or even have the courage to do so.


    Under such various restrictions, the election funds of major political parties in Austrsia are not abundant, with most of the fundsing from spontaneous political donations by Austrsians.<div>


    Although such donations are frequent, the amounts are not veryrge, and the total annual donations amount to less than 500,000 Australian dors, even for the most popr Unity Party, its annual budget does not exceed 100,000 Australian dors.


    Although it already seems like a lot, 100,000 Australian dors of thates from Arthur’s support.


    If it were not for Arthur’s 100,000 Australian dors, the financial situation of major political parties would be even worse.


    Of course, the booming development prospects of Austrsia are also one of the reasons for a limited size of political parties.


    The development pace of Austrsia makes its people very satisfied, and themon people are content with their lives, so naturally, they have no intention of engaging in politics.


    Without the support of more lower-ss citizens, this is the main reason why the current major political parties are notrge in size, and their support rates are not very high.