Istkalenic Elections 2024
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Several local and national-level elections are to be held in Istkalen through 2024.
Istkaleners will first elect, on 4 March, delegates to local and national-level workers' committees to succeed the outgoing leadership of the country's 16 workers' associations.
On 1 November, they will return to the polls to elect delegates to the territorially-organized people's committees, at ward, municipal, and regional levels.
1 December will see the last poll of the year - an indirect election to the 240 seats of the National Assembly appointed by the workers' associations and regional people's committees.
Whether you are an Istkalener, a foreign political junkie, or a Reitzmic spy, Republic and Nation invite you to follow the upcoming campaign with the joint, comprehensive coverage they are endeavoring to offer in this most crucial of years for the country.
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Electoral Procedures
The electoral procedures for all upcoming elections are defined by the Act on Electoral Conduct, passed shortly after the fall of the NSC, on 11 October 2023.
As regards the people's and workers' committees, the act creates a system centered around the Courts of Examination, traditional, semi-monastic orders that, over the years, have become integrated into the Istkalenic state. They are to be tasked with creating lists of candidates, one for each committee, regardless of level, from which voters will make their choice.
LIsts must be made in "consultation" with local "mass organizations," and have more candidates than there are positions to be filled. On election day, voters will be given a ballot on which the whole of the list will be printed, with the choice to indicate the candidate they most prefer. Blank ballots are to be counted as indicating that the voter approves most of the first candidate listed. Candidates will then be elected in order of the total number of "approvals" they received, until no positions are left to be filled.
Candidates are prohibited from campaigning. Outside organizations, however, can endorse them and campaign on their behalf; nevertheless, they cannot use the given candidate's or candidates' likeness or likenesses, or any representation or representations thereof, in any way in their activities.
For indirect elections to the National Assembly, the act stipulates that each of the 16 workers' committees and 7 regional people's committees appoint 11 and 25 delegates, respectively, to form an electoral college. This college will then vote on lists pre-prepared by already represented parliamentary groups and approved by the national Court of Examination; election will be organized and determined according to d'Hondt proportional representation, with a threshold of 3%.
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Results - National Workers' Committees
Elections to the 16 national workers' committees have concluded. Because of their nature, in which all candidates stand as independents, we cannot provide results based on party-affiliation; we can only project, roughly, party control. Our predictions are provided below:
Labor Committee: Communist
Cultural Committee: Communist
Students' Committee: Communist
Professionals' Committee: CommunistCrafts Committee: Republican Syndicalist
Trades Committee: Republican Syndicalist
Industrial Committee: Republican SyndicalistNational/Civil Defense Committee: Statebuilding
Civil Service Committee: Statebuilding
National Distribution and Commerce Committee: StatebuildingPensioners' Committee: (Vesek-aligned) Farmer-Greens, w/ support from committee-members endorsed by Radical Democratic Party
Independent, Intentional, and Religious Communities' Committee: (Vesek-aligned) Farmer-Greens, w/ support from committee-members endorsed by Radical Democratic Party and the non-endorsedForesters' Committee: Agrarian
Fishers' Committee: AgrarianFarmers' Committee: National Republican-Agrarian
Miners' Committee: National Republican, w/ support from unendorsed committee-members
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Municipal and Regional Elections - Parties, Slogans, Platforms!
Party Name Designated Campaign Lead Slogan Basic Platform Antifascists Inge Meier, party chairwoman The lantern for them all Empower local committees, institute participatory budgeting, end grants to mutualities, end local employment quotas Communist Party Simonetta Sommaruga, Mayor of Kirelesile Peace, Work, Dignity Strengthen enforcement of anti-discrimination laws, create job centers for youth and students, end internal passport system, double housing stock National Republican Party Lawrence Ketist, Minister of Integration Defend the Republic! Institute additional cash benefits at municipal level, improve cultural and religious integration of schools, create job centers for youth and students Agrarian Union Gertrude Istikas, Minister of Justice Choose for the countryside Empower local committees, create local banks offering inexpensive credit for farmers, invest in vocational education and polytechnics People's Party Intaras Lastek, former Defense Minister Now, the people's turn! Stop funding for Western industry and imports, split up collective ("unowned") property, provide free credit through community banks for workers in "indigenous" industry Republican Syndicalist Party Andrus Liiv, host of the Northern Radio The Nation First! Enforce local employment quotas more strictly, establish new courts to try low-level J-TAI collaborators, place new taxes on consumption of Western cultural products, revoke licenses for workers engaged in "Reitzmo-Vardic" cultural or economic activity Union Party Ayros Tiraki, former Head of State Stability now Double size of police, speed up criminal trials, improve efficiency and access to Public Distribution System -
Results - Regional People's Committees and Presidents/Mayors
PEOPLE'S COMMITTEE OF KIRELESILE - 260 seats
Social Democratic Party: 140 seats
National Republican Party: 38 seats
Farmer-Green Alliance: 33 seats
Agrarian Union: 19 seats
Democratic Movement: 16 seats
Statebuilding Party: 14 seatsKIRELESILE MAYOR
Inge Meier (Social Democratic Party): 52,1% --> ELECTED IN FIRST ROUND
Kaisa Malk (National Republican Party): 18,9%
Kalju Ilves (Statebuilding Party, endorsed by Democratic Movement): 15,3%
Liros Ikomar (Radical Democratic Party, endorsed by Farmer-Green Alliance): 7,5%
Simonetta Sommaruga (Istkalenic Communist Party, endorsed by Agrarian Union, incumbent): 2,2%
PEOPLE'S COMMITTEE OF THE OSTRETÉ PLAINS - 75 seats
Statebuilding Party: 25 seats
Union Party: 24 seats
Democratic Movement: 12 seats
Agrarian Union: 10 seats
Farmer-Green Alliance: 4 seatsPRESIDENT OF THE OSTRETÉ PLAINS
Ayros Tiraki (Union Party): 29,1% --> proceeds to second round
Ilinek Isteral (Statebuilding Party): 28,9% --> proceeds to second round
Ikelin Kalmet (Democratic Movement, endorsed by Agrarian Union): 25,5%
Elizabeth an Keraves (Farmer-Green Alliance): 10,3%
Dileser Émmarek (Radical Democratic Party): 6,2%Ilinek Isteral (Statebuilding Party): 50,04% --> ELECTED
Ayros Tiraki (Union Party): 49,96%
PEOPLE'S COMMITTEE OF THE KERISTEN PLAINS - 100 seats
Agrarian Union: 31 seats
Radical Democratic Party: 25 seats
Democratic Movement: 18 seats
Farmer-Green Alliance: 17 seats
Statebuilding Party: 9 seatsPRESIDENT OF THE KERISTEN PLAINS
Kelastet Neras (Agrarian Union, endorsed by Democratic Movement, Farmer-Green Alliance, Statebuilding Party): 94,6% --> ELECTED IN FIRST ROUND
Menassas Kerek (Radical Democratic Party): 5,4%
PEOPLE'S COMMITTEE OF THE SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHERN URALS - 50 seats
Farmer-Green Alliance: 29 seats
Republican Syndicalist Party: 10 seats
Communist Party: 6 seats
Democratic Movement: 5 seatsPRESIDENT OF THE SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHERN URALS
Suzanne Cronenberg (Farmer-Green Alliance): 64,3% --> ELECTED IN FIRST ROUND
Marianne Seguy (Republican Syndicalist Party): 18,2%
Laurenz Tüchler (Communist Party): 10,5%
Intaras Lastek (Democratic Movement, nominally member of People's): 7,0%
PEOPLE'S COMMITTEE OF THE NORTHWEST - 40 seats
Agrarian Union: 40 seats
PRESIDENT OF THE NORTHWEST
Esketal Indretek (Agrarian Union): 100% --> ELECTED IN FIRST ROUND
PEOPLE'S COMMITTEE OF THE NORTHERN URALS - 80 seats
Republican Syndicalist Party: 61 seats
National Republican Party: 14 seats
Communist Party: 3 seats
Democratic Movement: 2 seatsPRESIDENT OF THE NORTHERN URALS
Andrus Liiv (Republican Syndicalist Party): 63,4% --> ELECTED IN FIRST ROUND
Riina Kruus (National Republican Party): 21,9%
Altay Sancar (Communist Party): 9,4%
Hendrik Kõiv (Democratic Movement, endorsed by Agrarian Union, Farmer-Green Alliance): 5,6%
PEOPLE'S COMMITTEE OF THE OLD NORTH - 35 seats
Agrarian Union: 15 seats
Democratic Movement: 10 seats
Statebuilding Party: 6 seats
National Republican Party: 4 seatsPRESIDENT OF THE OLD NORTH
Gertrude Lirital (Democratic Movement): 38,5% --> proceeds to second round
Kondres Uklertal (Statebuilding Party): 35,1% --> proceeds to second round
Lawrence Ketist (National Republican Party): 18,9%
Andres Kask (Agrarian Union): 7,5%Kondres Uklertal (Statebuilding Party): 53,8% --> ELECTED
Gertrude Lirital (Democratic Movement): 46,2%
