Chapter 225 The General Election Is Coming

After dealing with this crisis, the attention of the Australian political arena returned to the cabinet election two months later.

This cabinet election is very attractive to major political parties and individuals.

According to the system inherited from Australia by Australia, after the prime minister is successfully re-elected for two terms, if there is no special permission from Arthur, Prime Minister Evan will temporarily bid farewell to the position of prime minister of the government, or condescend to become a minister of a department, or can only wait for the next election.

But Prime Minister Evan, who has experienced the power and status of the prime minister, will really put down his face and become a minister of a department?

The most anticipated for this cabinet election is actually the several powerful ministers of the cabinet government.

If Prime Minister Evan cannot be re-elected, they will be the most likely candidates to become the new prime minister.

Even if the power of the prime minister in Australia has been greatly restricted, it is still a position that is second to none in politics, and these cabinet ministers cannot help but be tempted.

In fact, after entering 1907, the atmosphere of the Australian cabinet election has gradually become strong.

At the end of April, the atmosphere of the general election became even more heated. The major political parties that had been patiently preparing for four years began to gear up and prepare to launch an attack on the highest political arena in Australasia.

The election of Minister Willie in the previous government was unexpected by the political parties, but this time they were ready.

In particular, the United Party (the merger of the Independence Party and the Endeavour Party), which currently occupies more seats in the House of Representatives, is also one of the parties most likely to obtain a ministerial position.

The elections in Australasia are different from those in other countries. In the political arena of Australasia, the power of the prime minister is fully restricted by the cabinet ministers and only has administrative power.

The huge power of the prime minister, like in other countries, is actually divided among the entire cabinet members.

If Australasia were a democratic country, such a system would have many shortcomings.

The first is the problem of inconsistent orders. Cabinet ministers can completely unite to resist the rule of the prime minister, and fundamentally, cabinet ministers and the prime minister are not the same kind of people.

Because all cabinet positions are independently elected, this means that cabinet members may be enemies or friends, or even strangers who have never met each other.

This also reflects the importance of Arthur. The cabinet is responsible to Arthur and the Royal Parliament, and Arthur completely controls the Royal Parliament.

This means that Arthur completely controls the cabinet, and Arthur is the highest point of national administration.

The current cabinet government can be divided into three factions. The first faction is the prime ministers of the previous colonial period. Relying on their previous reputation in the colonial period, they occupied several important departments in Australasia and were one of the most powerful factions in the cabinet government.

The second faction is the cabinet members elected by the civilian class. Including Minister of Agriculture Henry, Minister of Transport Conlet, and Minister of Health Willie.

Most of these people have a higher degree of loyalty to Arthur, and are real pragmatists who really want to make some political achievements.

The third faction is the cabinet ministers appointed by Arthur and completely loyal to Arthur.

In fact, there are not many people in this faction, and they only control the two departments of defense and finance.

But these two departments are precisely the most important in the Australian cabinet government, one represents military power, and the other represents financial power.

Although Kent, the Minister of Defense, and Roger, the Minister of Finance, are not keen on fighting for power, no one can deny their status in the cabinet government.

Even Prime Minister Evan is unwilling to conflict with Minister Kent and Minister Roger, after all, these two also represent Arthur in the cabinet government.

Compared with other countries, the rights of political parties in Australia are much smaller.

First of all, all legal political parties in Australia are subject to supervision by the Royal House.

This supervision is not just a name. The Royal House has the power to supervise, punish, declare legal and establish, declare illegal and forcibly dissolve political parties.

This also means that the Royal House has the power of life and death over all political parties, and political parties in Australia can't make much splash at all.

Secondly, disguised bribery such as political donations is not allowed.

Australia has an election union that supervises all elections, which is established and supervised by the Royal House and the House of Representatives.

The members of the Electoral Union are composed of the royal family, the cabinet government, the Royal House, and the House of Representatives. They are directly responsible to the royal family and are supervised by the Royal House and the House of Representatives.

The only way for political parties to obtain legal development funds is to call on voters to donate to the Electoral Union.

Of all the funds received by the Electoral Union, 70% will be distributed according to the proportion of seats in the House of Representatives occupied by political parties, and the remaining 30% will be evenly distributed to all legal political parties.

You must know that because the power of political parties is not great, even the United Party, which currently occupies the most seats in the House of Representatives, only occupies 24%.

This means that bribery by capitalists is basically impossible.

Although political parties may receive the bulk of the donated funds, it will never exceed 25%.

This also makes political donations, which are common in other countries, become common development in Australasia. While developing themselves, they are also supporting the enemy.

This regulation makes all major political parties very uncomfortable, but because they are supervised by the Royal Parliament and the elections are also interfered with by the Electoral Union, they can only accept it with gritted teeth.

As for private bribery, the political parties do not have the courage to do it.

Don't underestimate the supervision of the Royal Parliament and the Electoral Union. In addition, the promulgation of the Election Law and the Political Party Law has put an end to this behavior with strict laws.

Arthur's punishment for election bribery is quite severe. Once discovered, not only will all illegal gains be confiscated, but the political party involved will be directly declared illegal and forced to disband, and its main members will not be allowed to participate in any election in Australasia, and will bid farewell to their political careers.

This is only a political punishment. For a person, he must also be tried according to the amount of foreign exchange received, with a light sentence of imprisonment, a heavy sentence of life imprisonment or even death penalty.

In addition, Australasia's capital is still very weak. Except for the royal consortium, there is no capital to challenge the government, and there is not even the courage.

Under various restrictions, the election funds of the major political parties in Australasia are not much, and most of them come from spontaneous political donations from Australasia.

But although such donations are frequent, the amount is not really large. The accumulated donations each year are only less than 500,000 Australian dollars. Even the most popular United Party can only get a budget of no more than 100,000 Australian dollars each year.

Although it seems a lot, 100,000 Australian dollars of this comes from Arthur's support.

Without Arthur's 100,000 Australian dollars, the financial situation faced by major political parties would be even worse.

Of course, the current booming development prospects of Australasia are also one of the reasons why the size of political parties is limited.

The speed of development in Australasia makes Australasians very satisfied. The civilian class is satisfied with their own lives, so naturally they have no idea to participate in politics.

The lack of more support from the grassroots civilians is also the main reason why the major political parties are not large in scale and their support is not high.

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