The Sheenish Election

The Scandal continues to unfurl, greatly hurting the Metropolitan Party across the country. The National Liberals have also taken more of a share from the Liberal Party.

Poll 3:

Metropolitan: 30% -2
Liberal: 24% -5
SDP: 9% +1
National Liberal: 15% +5
Agrarian: 1% +0
Other/Independent: 21% +1

Coming off a ship from Hweituzdas, a group of swarthy looking men in what most would consider traditionally pirate gear came and embraced another group of waiting men. They were all subscribers of the First International and had been sent here over the last few weeks to start the world revolution. Their efforts had thus far been focused on pamphlet work around National Liberal and Liberal neighbourhoods, to try and radicalise the cowardly and petite bourgeoisie Georgists into supporting a workers revolution.

Whilst they had done that, agitators had been meeting with their crypto-Marxist comrades in the S.D.P. to try and both flip some of them and arrange a power-sharing agreement between them, now outlawed Sheen Communist Party, and the new International Revolutionary Communo-Syndicalist Front for the People's Liberation. Though, secretly they had also been working to prepare the National Liberals and Liberals for being junior partners, as they were arguably 'friends of the revolution'.

Breathing in the air, the new comrades quickly made their ways to the docks to try and kill some bosses that had been trying to stop their workers from unionising. If all went to plan, they might even get a couple of the mayors in their pocket before the election.

The republic of heel uses connections of former Sheen residents to start an propaganda campaign in favour of democratically aligned Independent politicians to boost their influence and better public perception of representative Democracys. They do this over an private cover company based in Dunwik.

Those independent politicians got promised protection and funding if they stayed true to their ideals of democracy this time by a different cover company based in sheen itself.

The dunwiki cover company could not get charged with anything as it never violated dunwiki law and is privately owned by an Dunwiki citizen who just so happens to sell sugar to the heel republic and the local market.

Security squads made up of former Heel pirates now Patrol the streets dealing with the Hit Squads that try to interfeer with heel interests. They have no formal connections.

After the hard work of the Guilds to bring back order after a good week of insanity, the Liberals saw a massive resurgence in popularity that had not been matched since last election. More on this news in the paper tonight.

Poll 5:

Metropolitan: 32% +2
Liberal: 35% +13
NLSDAP: 19% -9
Agrarian: 2% +0
Other/Independent: 12% -6

The crew from the CEA had arrived few days late, People's Commissariat of External Affairs was newly formed but the men running it was already veterans in what their task was. They had been part of starting the revolution in Rodina and now their mission was to spread the ideals of their cause.
They knew communism had not taken hold in the state yet, but like in all states would it only be a matter of time before the people would demand it.
Koldan had stated that democracies was a threat and a chance to influence in any way would be worth it just. A failed democracy proved that the state needed to be run by a strong leader.

So the CEA agents had spread into the major cities and had started hanging up posters under the cover of the night.




They would spread the idea and hope it would create seeds that would blossom over the coming years, they were playing the long game after all.
The other plan was a little more complex, own teams would join the different party meetings and make sure the alcohol flow was going making the participants drunk and aggressive, making people say dumb stuff. Hopefully, show the people how fragile democracy is without breaking any laws.

The Elections are over, and the results are in! The makeup of the Sheenish Common Council is:

Metropolitan: 32
Liberal: 36
NLSDAP: 17
Agrarian: 2
Other/Independent: 13

And for the Alliance Council:

Metropolitan: 6
Liberal: 6
NLSDAP: 3
Agrarian: 1
Other/Independent: 13

For the first time in Sheenish history, a political party agreement was made, the Metropolitans and Liberals will provide confidence and supply to one another to support eachother's policies against those of the NLSDAP. This effectively makes them the governing group in the Common Council, and the largest bloc in the more important Alliance Council.

Despite their best efforts, the N.L.S.D.A.P. had started to slow down in recruitment. The workers of Sheen had all heard their their speeches, read their literature, and even attended at least one of their rallies. It was not enough! The membership had stopped its growth and was now more or less stagnant, with no major political scandals shaking them nor their opponents. It was under these conditions that the party started to fray.

The more extreme and revolutionary elements of the party began calling for violent bombing campaigns and murders to be carried out, as the time for preparation was over and the time of revolution upon them. The moderate wings of the party started to get skittish in return, with some of them discussing openly the possibility of defecting to the other sides or starting a new party without the revolutionaries.

It was this brewing political nightmare that got the agents within to start writing to their handlers; the handlers in Hweituzdas panicked, and in turn wrote to their masters further afield in Morthal; the naval and army intelligence officers in Morthal in turn wrote to their other offices in Wovthal and Haarshlaugs; finally, these offices wrote to the Sluut about the issue, passing on recommendations and courses of action that could be taken. 

Somewhere, deep within the seat of the Raikh's power, different artists presented their best works designed to appeal to certain minority or fringe groups. The idea to appeal to the Agrarians had been shot down incredibly quickly, as they were simply too opposed to the Party's existing industrial policies. The idea to appeal to the youth had been a bit more well received, but was ultimately thought too much of a long term investment to engage in alone... Finally, the choice became clear. The Party's agenda would be the homosexual agenda!

In an instant, slogans of 'Love is love, take pride in who you are!' and 'We are all part of the rainbow!' were agreed upon, with a rainbow flag being chosen to represent this new political issue. A few poster designs were made and prepared for shipping to Sheen through covert routes, as well as lists of talking points. Chief amongst them were to push for a bill that would make discrimination on the basis of sex and sexuality illegal, as well as fostering a liberal image of communism, as being the only way towards equality of opportunity and outcome for all.

Though the election was far away, this new angle would definitely help keep the party united and struggling against the system, as well as recruit minority groups. Directives were left, telling them to expand their appeal to other minorities as opportunities arose, but to make sure to lock in core support and not turn their backs on them most important backers. Finally, they were given orders to arrange Solidarity Parades and Pride Parades, to raise awareness of these new choice issues.

If this did not stir the hornets' nest, nothing would.

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Shortly after the new posters started showing up, Selblom wakes up and wonders what she can do to help others win acceptance by the public.