We go forward

[Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC]

Congratulations to all parties in the election on a clean, well-fought campaign. It's a pleasant surprise that turnout went up, both in absolute and relative terms.

While I'm disappointed not to have preserved the AVANT majority, the referendum on the Fixed Terms amendment gives excellent feedback on where to go from here (and is a shining example for grassroots democracy). I have opened discussions with the Progressive Alliance and that independent, conservative gentleman on forming the next government.

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

Congratulations to all parties. Genuinely surprised by Avant not getting a majority. The Green Party looks forward to holding to account any and all parties who get the honor of serving as this Kingdom's government.

[Istefan Perþonest]

On a purely speculative note, I wonder if relatively-disengaged voters pick among available parties at near-random, thus implicitly favoring small parties over broad coalitions.

In which case, the optimum tactic for a political alliance might be to register as several parties, but with the same electoral list. There is, at a first glance, no rule I see against people appearing on the electoral lists of more than one party. (Or, actually, even against for multiple parties having the same party leader.)

The natural checks on artificial use of this tactic are 1) having to pay a registration fee for each party; and 2) parties that look obviously "spammed" (particularly in having the same party leader) will probably turn off voters.

[Miestră Schivă, UrN-GC]

On a purely speculative note, I wonder if relatively-disengaged voters pick among available parties at near-random, thus implicitly favoring small parties over broad coalitions.

This is my belief too. AVANT would undoubtedly had got a higher vote running as 3 parties. However, we couldn't put together an adequate list of active Free Democrat candidates. As I was yelling at people in the Shoutbox, I am a firm belief in party lists as a means to prevent a "Potemkin village" party with no real membership harvesting huge votes for the personal benefit of its leader.

[C. M. Siervicül]

the referendum on the Fixed Terms amendment gives excellent feedback on where to go from here (and is a shining example for grassroots democracy).

I wonder when the last time was that an OrgLaw amendment failed on referendum.