December 2019 General Election

December 2019 General Election

← April 2019 General Election	15 Nov 2019 - 1 Dec 2019
All 200 seats in the Cosa 101 seats needed for a majority
Eligible voters		162
Turnout		TBD
Leader	Miestrâ Schivâ	Ian Plätschisch	Eiric Börnatfiglheu
Party	FreeDem	AMP	NPW
Leader since	29 Jan 2019	22 Feb 2019	15 Sep 2019
Leader's seat	MC (FreeDem)	Senator (MM)	no seat
Last election	89	40	new party
Leader	Ieremiac'h Ventrutx	Eovart Grischun	Mximo Carbonel
Party	ZPT	PNP	MTGA
Leader's seat	Senator (FL)	no seat	no seat
Last election	new party	new party	new party
Outgoing Cosa
Outgoing Seneschal
Miestrâ Schivâ FreeDems

The upcoming General Election will be held from November 15th to December 1st 2019/XL. All of the Cosa will be up for reelection, plus regularly scheduled Senate elections in Florencia, Maricopa and Fiova, and a special election in Cézembre.

The lone amendment that is expected to be voted on is the Still Into This Amendment, which implements the so-called 2017 Organic Law proposal.

Registered parties

Six national political parties - the most since the elections to the 49th Cosa, and one short of the modern record - have registered for the election:

Party		Leader/Candidate	Beliefs
	Awakening and Magnifying Passion (AMP)	Ian Plätschisch	Pragmatism, moderate monarchism, reformism
	Free Democrats of Talossa (FreeDem)	Miestrâ Schivâ	Progressivism, liberalism, republicanism
	Make Talossa Great Again (MTGA)	Mximo Carbonel	Republicanism, reformism
	New Peculiar Way (NPW)	Eiric Börnatfiglheu	Peculiarism, republicanism
	Peculiar Nationalist Party (PNP)	Eovart Grischun	Peculiarism, civic nationalism, moderate monarchism
	Zefençadéirs del Päts Talossan (ZPT)	Ieremiac'h Ventrutx	Monarchism, conservativism, traditionalism

Three parties are slated to return after a hiatus: the ZPT, a party that was most known in its 1998-2005 iteration, but will be revived for a second time by Ieremiac'h Ventrutx; MTGA, whose only member Mximo Carbonel had sat out the 53rd Cosa; and the New Peculiar Way, which held seats in 2013 but has largely been dormant since, only sporadically holding seats in Benito. One completely new party is expected to take part in the elections: the PNP, led by Eðo Grischun. Grischun served as the leader of the RUMP, most recently on an interim basis, but resigned from the party in the summer.

The RUMP did not register for the election for the first time since 2005. The party had contested 19 elections in a row, existing for virtually the entire post-Ben era. The party had been in decline for some time, and in the waning days of the 53rd Cosa it only had two MCs and a Senator, with two leaders (Grischun and Alexandreu Davinescu) leaving politics in the span of a month during the summer. Moderate Radicals Arise will also not run again; therefore, the two longest tenured MCs (Eovart Xhorxh and Erschéveþ da Schir) will both leave the Cosa.

The Free Democrats need a swing of 12 seats to win a majority; no party has managed to win one since 2013. AMP needs to gain 61 seats; no such swing has ever been achieved under EM200, the biggest positive swing being the RUMP's +43 in the 36th Cosa.

Timeline

• 15 April: before the previous election is even certified, Ieremiac'h Ventrutx announces the return of the ZPT by paying the registation fee for this election
• 21 October: voting ends on the last Clark of the 53rd Cosa
• 22 October: AMP presented its Manifesto
• 22 October: Prime Minister Miestrâ Schivâ published a farewell message touting her government's accomplishments and launching the Free Democrats's campaign
• 24 October: AMP announced Breneir Itravilatx will run for Florencia's Senate seat
• 24 October: the Chancery published the proposed election rules and announced the composition of the Electoral Commission
• 25 October: King John dissolved the Cosa and isssued the Writs for the election
• 25 October: Senator Lüc da Schir adjourned the Senate to December 15th
• 29 October: Senator Gödafrïeu Válcadác'h announced he would seek reelection to a third term as Senator for Fiovâ
• 30 October: MTGA announced it was "back on track" and would contest the election
• 1 November: the Chancery announced the Electoral Commission has certified the rules that will be used during the election
• 3 November: NPW presented its Manifesto
• 4 November: it is announced that the Free Democrats have paid the registration fee
• 4 November: the Free Democrats published their Manifesto in La S'chinteia
• 5 November: the Free Democrats presented their Cosa and Senate candidates on their own blog
• 8 November: it is announced that the new Peculiar National Party has paid the registration fee. Party leader Eðo Grischun also announced a preview of their platform
• 9 November: the Peculiar Nationalist Party presented their Manifesto
• 11 November: AMP officially registers for the election
• 11 November: AMP's Breneir Itravilatx confirmed he would run for Florencia's Senate seat
• 12 November: the RUMP's Beneditsch Ardpresteir announces difficulties in registering the party, and that he would bid for Maricopa's Senate seat
• 12 November: MTGA and PNP officially register for the election, bringing the number of parties on the ballot to 5
• 12 November: the RUMP's former leader Alexandreu Davinescu remarks in Wittenberg's shoutbox that he didn't know which party he would vote for, all but confirming that the RUMP would not take part in the election
• 13 November: the ZPT officially registers for the election, and it is announced by the Chancery that its leader Ieremiac'h Ventrutx has registered to run for reelection as Senator of Florencia
• 13 November: MTGA's Mximo Carbonel announced his party's platform on Wittenberg
• 13 November (end of day): the political party registration deadline expires, with six parties qualifying for ballot access
• 14 November (end of day): the senatorial candidate registration deadline expires, with 8 registered candidates over 4 races, but only two contested seats
• 15 November: voting begins, and voting advice website Talomat is opened to the public by Lüc da Schir
• 1 December (7:30 PM TST): voting deadline

Senatorial races

Half of the Senate will be up for reelection: three regularly scheduled races for full terms in Florencia, Fiovă and Maricopa, and a special election in Cézembre, where freshman Senator Thor Deyaert lost his seat by failing to vote.

Had the merger between Fiovâ and Florencia been successful, Iarneria (the name of the merged province) would have been expected to elect its first Senator, while the election for the seat of Maritiimi-Maxhestic would have also been up for election, to respect the Organic provision that three seats should be up for a full term at each General Election.

Cézembre (special)

Cézembre will elect a senator for the sixth time in the last seven general elections. Of the five Senators that held the seat since mid-2015, only Ian Anglatzara served more than six Clarks, and none actually served for a whole term:

• Txosuè Rôibeardescù, elected in 2015 upon Glüc da Dhi's retirement, lost his seat in the coattails of a corruption scandal;
• Anglatzara only served the two-Cosa remainder of his term;
• the following two-Cosa term was split between a returned da Dhi, who resigned his seat to accept an appointment as Secretary of State, and Alexandreu Soleiglhfred, who declined to seek reelection in the wake of the collapse of the MRPT;
• and Thor Deyaert lost his seat by failing to vote.

The last senator to complete a term was Glüc da Dhi, who served two whole terms and one extra Cosa between 2011 and 2015.

The seat is one of two expected to be competitive, should multiple candidates from different parties be on the ballot. The only candidate so far is Interior Minister Alexandreu Regeu of the Free Democrats, who would however be ineligible to vote before March 29th 2020 due to being a citizen for less than a year.

Cézembre Senate Special Election
	Alexandreu Regeu	-
Open seat

Florencia

Ieremiac'h Ventrutx, the incumbent, was elected in a special election to complete the remainder of Ma la Mha's term. He will run for reelection; in his special election campaign, he was elected as a write-in candidate (no other name actually appeared on the ballot, in a first for Talossa since Reunision). Ventrutx is also running with his own party, the ZPT, which he brought back after a hiatus of ten years.

AMP has announced that Breneir Itravilatx, a former Foreign Minister and Senator for Maritiimi-Maxhestic between 2010 and 2011, would contest the seat. The Free Democrats will instead support Spencer Kerfoot for the seat, while also endorsing Itravilatx as a second IRV preference. Kerfoot notably led the Free Democrats's efforts in the Nimlet concerning the Fiova-Florencia merger in the summer of 2019.

MTGA leader Mximo Carbonel will also contest the seat. He had previously ran in two elections and received write-in votes in two others. Carbonel had expressed his desire to move to his geographically correct province (Atatürk) during the previous term; changing provinces would cast his eligibility to hold the seat into doubt, although the Organic Law only forbids people to be elected or appointed to the seat of a different province.

Should the seat be won by either Carbonel or Ventrutx, both leaders of a one-man party, they would have to forfeit their party's seats in the Cosa, as they are the only candidate on the party list. In the case of Ventrutx, who is both the favourite to retain the Senate seat and likely to win a substantial number of Cosa seats due to the RUMP deregistering, this would potentially have the effect of lowering the threshold for an outright majority in the Cosa, should the ZPT leave their seats vacant.

Florencia Senate Election
	Mximo Carbonel	-
	Breneir Itravilatx	-
	Spencer Kerfoot	-
	Ieremiac'h Ventrutx	-
Incumbent: I. Ventrutx (running)

Fiova

The incumbent is Gödafrïeu Válcadác'h, currently the third longest tenured Senator, who had served as Lord President (Mençei) of the Senate in 2018 and is well known as the long-time Royal Archivist of Talossa. He has announced his intention to run for reelection.

No challenger has declared their intention to run. The last contested election in Fiovă was in December 2013, when the NPW's Dieter Vercáriâ took on the ZRT's Miestrâ Schivâ.

Fiovă Senate Election
	Gödafrïeu Válcadác'h	-
Incumbent: G. Válcadác'h (running)

Maricopa

The incumbent is Sir Cresti Siervicül, the lone senator to be affiliated with the RUMP. Siervicül has completed his first term in the Senate, which he joined in late 2017, initially as an appointee and then winning a special election to complete the rest of the term.

The seat is one of two expected to be competitive, should multiple candidates from different parties be on the ballot. Maricopa was the first province where IRV was applied to a Senate race.

The Free Democrats have announced that Foreign Minister Txoteu Davinescu, formerly of AMP, will contest the seat for a second time; he was the MRPT's candidate in 2017, where he received the second-most first votes (29%), but lost out in the final IRV round to Beneditsch Ardpresteir. Ardpresteir himself later announced he would run for the seat, setting up a rematch with Davinescu.

Maricopa Senate Election
	Txoteu Davinescu	-
	Beneditsch Ardpresteir	-
Incumbent: C. Siervicül (undeclared)