Voting is over.

There were, in total, 26 votes. The results are as follows:

For the Office of Premier Commissioner,

Eilidh WHITEFORD - 18
Dragan TRYMPOV - 8

For the Office of Internal Affairs Commissioner,

Jean Claude JUNCKER - 18
Edmund Jasper WINSTON - 5
Dragan TRYMPOV - 3

For the Office of Foreign Affairs Commissioner,

Antoni REYNELS - 26

Therefore Eilidh WHITEFORD is duly elected Premier Commissioner, Jean Claude JUNCKER is duly elected Internal Affairs Commissioner, and Antoni REYNELS is duly elected Foreign Affairs Commissioner. Congratulations to them, and commiserations to the other candidates.

The new Commissioners' terms will run from now until 8 September 2020, or, for the Foreign Affairs Commissioner, 8th January 2021.

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Folks, the situation we're in all over Europe is so bad. The EPA globalists have been running Europolis for so long, and they've given us coups, they've given us bombs, they've given us Communism, and they've given us so many crazy laws that some countries, and you can't blame them, are just ignoring the EU.

I don't know about you, folks, but I think we've learned so much tonight. So much. It's so clear now. There's only one pro-EU, anti-coup candidate on this stage, and that's me, OK? The other candidates pick and choose what coups they like, and that's so bad, they have no ideas about how to stop more coups. They want more rules imposed on our countries, and they want more crazy spending projects which means taking money from countries, and that means tax-paying citizens like you, OK?

If we let the globalists back in again, and I regret that, sadly, I have to include Winston in that, based on what I've heard tonight, they will keep losing. They will keep losing to the coups, to the Communist coups especially, and also, they will alienate everybody so countries will start ignoring the laws from Europolis, and also, they will start ignoring the bills. And that's how the EU breaks apart, folks.

We have two choices, folks. Either we let the globalists keep destroying our region; or we decide to Make Europe Great Again. With me on the Commission, we will be strong against the coups, we will be fiscally responsible, and we will repeal crazy laws like the Refugee Protection Act and get countries taking the EU seriously again. The globalists have been keeping our countries down for so long, it’s time we drain the swamp and bring change in Europolis.

Together, folks, we are going to – excuse me; hey, quiet, OK? – we are going to Make Europe Safe Again, we are going to Make Europe Prosperous Again, we are going to Make Europe One Again, and we are going to Make Europe Great Again! Thank you!

Nominations have now closed. The nominees are:

Premier Commissioner
Eilidh Whiteford (Icholasen), EPA
Dragan Trympov (Pravoslaviya), Independent

Internal Affairs
Jean Claude Juncker (Spain), EPA
Dragan Trympov (Pravolslaviya), Independent
Edmund Jasper Winston (Reitzmag), Independent

Foreign Affairs
Antoni Reynels (Inquista), EPA

A period of debate has now officially begun. The debate can be found here.

Voting is over

There were, in total, 8 votes. The results are as follows:

Premier Commissioner

Rodrigo CARMONA-SANTOS – 5
Blair VON SCHROEDER – 3

Internal Affairs

Alexander PHILLIPS – 7

Foreign Affairs

Vincent DRAKE am Weisshaupt – 5
Jean-Claude JUNCKER – 3

Therefore Rodrigo CARMONA-SANTOS is duly elected Premier Commissioner, Alexander PHILLIPS is duly elected Internal Affairs Commissioner, and Vincent DRAKE am Weisshaupt is duly elected Foreign Affairs Commissioner. Congratulations to them, and commiserations to the other candidates.

The new Commissioners' terms will run until 8th January 2020, or, for the Foreign Affairs Commissioner, 8th May 2020.

Do you believe the current regional recruitment rate is sufficient enough, if not what do you plan on doing to alleviate that? As with the other candidates, would you support bringing back the so-called mentorship program?

We currently have 139 member-states, which is neither particularly high or low compared to the history of the EU. However, only about 10 of those nations actively participate in the Union and are formally empowered to utilize the full scope of what we offer. That’s a core participation rate of only 7%, when 10-15% has been our historical average. Recruitment is more or less ok, but there is definite room for improvement in regional engagement.

I don’t think the mentorship program is necessarily the best way to raise engagement, but new nations do need to be welcomed when they join and presented with how they can get involved in the region. The Welcome TG is information overload and too impersonal to fulfill this role, first contact needs a personal touch. This gets into Internal territory, so I feel like it could be a joint project with Internal Affairs.