The Progressive socialists have secured a majority in the People’s Chamber, winning around 51% seats. Results were delayed after several states, including Scilipi, Gungi, Quintino, and Doa took longer than anticipated to count their votes. After tabulating the results late last night, the Doatian Election Commission (DEC) confirmed the results this morning.
The results affirm the Progressive Socialists meteoric rise, having been formed just earlier this year in the form of a mass exodus within the EJP. The PS are expected to hold a special session in the Chamber to have members sworn in and begin the new term.
This all but confirms that PS Chair Jax Bertoni will be elected Chancellor by the Chamber during tomorrow’s session. In remarks regarding their victory, Bertoni said: “a huge, beautiful, broad coalition of likeminded Doatia’s joined from all corners of the nation to pursue a brighter future. One filled with accountability and transparency, honesty and decency. Where we deliver greatness to Doatia, strengthen and protect our democratic principles, and defend our civil liberties. We will work with all parties in the Chamber to achieve the best, most comprehensive progressive agenda Doatia has ever seen.
Policies to ensure the quality and solvency of our universal healthcare, public education, and social security. We will expand and enhance our social safety net, decrease funding for our bloated department of defense, and promote reasonable border security and a humane immigration system. Perhaps most essential, we will privatize industries that would do better in a regulated private sector. We will do so fairly and with justice for workers. We will enact a wealth tax, a corporation tax, an estate tax, and a capitol gains tax to prepare for a modern Industrial Revolution. We will expand our anti- monopoly, anti-trust, and collective bargaining policies. We will raise the minimum wage, rebuild Hunaq, and invest in fighting the climate crisis.
We will enhance the regulation of androids and AI technology, we will decommission at least 10% of current working androids, and with our economic transformation, a universal jobs guarantee, and great investment, poverty and unemployment will be beat. Disposable will increase two-fold.
Here today, we declare a new path. A new chapter. No more gridlock, no more corruption, no more unfairness. To fund this transition, we will abolish the Doatian Monarchy, once and for all, and absorb its revenue and a reasonable amount of its standing accounts.
United, in community by creed of Doatia, the Progressive Socialists will bring democratic socialism to Doatia. No more economic extremes. No more injustice. No more inequality. Fairness, efficiency, and prosperity.”
The Progressive Socialists will have 355 seats in the Chamber (351=majority).
The former majority party, Environmental Justice Party, were demolished during the election. Only a few seats retained, Chancellor Ricardo will soon be pass in the torch, despite her best attempts to delay the inevitable. She and her office has remained silent, with not a single peep about the election.
Other liberal parties, including PS allies the Mushiki Justice Party, an indigenous led pacifist party, and the Gungi Collective, a coalition of indigenous workers, also saw gains. Winning a combined 51 seats.
The People’s Liberation Party remains at historic lows, only being competitive in the few neighborhoods where the party was founded and maintains a strong base.
Conservative parties didn’t fair as well as they expected to, with CP analysts having expected a coalition government led by the Conservative Party. The CP actually lost seats, mainly to liberal parties. The Doatian Nationalists siphoned a few CP seats off, the newly formed ultra-Christian Righteous Coalition barely emerged as an additional party.
The electorate also voted for 45 Independents, including 14 incumbents who retained their seats. With 8 Independents remaining neutral, 13 will join the liberal side of the chamber, and 24 on the conservative side.
Whichever side of the Chamber parties choose to sit indicates which parties they’re more aligned with and more likely to work with. Centrist and Moderate parties at or near center, Liberal and Progressive parties left, Conservative parties right.
Rebecca Loaz, former Chancellor and Chair of the CP said: “We are thrilled that the Doatian voters finally rejected the disastrous and communist PLP and EJP, who each wreaked havoc on our nation. They’re finally where they should be; obsolete. It’s also good that we actually have levelheaded partners in the Progressive Socials. While their liberal agenda spends too much, increases too many taxes, hinders development and growth, and is too friendly on immigration; there is more than enough room for unity and solidarity in their general economic policies, specifically regarding privatization. While I’m certain their proposal won’t go far enough, any transition from the curse placed on us by the EJP-PLP Coalition is a step in the right direction. Something that could, however, obstruct any cooperation between the CP and PS is their proposal to defund the military. Doatia needs a strong force to help us become a greater authority in the world and secure our nation. The CP will work to disrupt their entire agenda if the PS choose to pursue this reckless idea.”
The Chamber is set to go into their first session with the new members around midnight.
Doatian Correspondent for Politics and Government Makenzie Laverne
