Chapter 245 Cabinet Election (Happy New Year!)

After the second five-year plan report meeting, the relevant information mentioned by various government departments immediately became the most hotly discussed news in Spain.

Most Spaniards are proud of it, they are quite excited about the progress the country has made over the past five years and are more confident about its future.

As the king who proposed to make Spain great again at that time, Carlo was also popular with the public for this reason.

If there were many Spaniards before that they did not believe that Carlo could lead Spain to greatness, then most Spaniards at this time believed that making Spain great again was not a simple slogan, but a reality that would soon be realized .

The people have confidence in the future development of the country, and naturally they are more willing to make their own efforts for the future of the country.

After the meeting, the streets and alleys of Spanish cities were filled with titles such as "Make Spain great again!" and other related content. Some smart factory owners also set up such titles and banners in the factory to encourage workers to do so. The country's future makes its own efforts.

The Spanish government generally takes a turn for those not-so-outrageous factory owners. After all, Spain's population is limited, which also means that the number of workers in Spain is limited.

If you want to effectively increase Spain's industrial output, you still have to suffer the Spanish workers for the time being.

Of course, Carlo is also responsible. As early as early last year, at Carlo's warning, the Spanish Workers' Party was quickly established and attracted many workers to join in a short period of time.

The main purpose of the Workers' Party is to protect the interests of Spanish workers and fight instead of the working class and capitalists.

Such a party that can leverage the political power of the working class was naturally established by Carlo to guide the working class.

The Spanish Workers' Party on the surface has no connection with the royal family and Carlo, but the leader of the Workers' Party and some of its main members were sent by Carlo.

The main task of these people is to make rational use of the political power of workers and at the same time deepen the conflict between capitalists and workers.

Of course, the capitalists here refer to private capitalists, not state-owned capital.

The income and welfare benefits of employees of Spanish state-owned enterprises and royal enterprises are relatively good, which also ensures that workers will not point their finger at the enterprises established by the state and royal family, but will only hate those private enterprises that exploit workers' interests, that is, capitalists established. the enterprise.

That is, the reason why the House elections in major regions have already ended, otherwise the Workers' Party of Spain would also be able to obtain some seats and thus qualify for entering the parliament.

Even if there is only one parliamentary seat, the political power of the parties is far greater than that of those parties without parliamentary seats. After all, only by entering the Spanish Parliament can one be nominated as a cabinet member. If even the parliament cannot enter, this party will have no sense of existence in Spain.

Judging from the proportion of seats in the House of Commons, most members of the next cabinet government will still be selected among the three major Spanish parties.

But unlike the last cabinet election, the Conservative Party has become Spain's largest party, and the living space of the Progressive Party and the Liberal Party has been squeezed out.

If Carlo hadn't intended to protect the Progressive Party and the Liberal Party, the Liberal Party might have withdrawn from the stage of history soon. Advocating freedom and civil rights in a monarchy is simply an opposition to the Spanish government.

If the radical republican democrats had not been purged, Carlo would never have allowed the Liberal Party to continue to exist in Spain.

After the Workers' Party receives a seat in parliament, Carlo will stop protecting the Liberal Party.

At that time, the Liberal Party will have only two choices, either be jointly excluded from parliament by other parties, or completely abandon the idea of ​​liberal democracy and change it to a moderate reformist who is more conservative than the Progressive Party.

The Spanish government in 1879 was definitely quite busy. Less than a month after the second five-year development plan summary report meeting ended, a new round of elections from the Spanish Cabinet Government was ushered in.

The good news is that all departments in Spain performed quite well in the second five-year development plan, and ministers from all departments also showed off their presence in the parliament.

Of course, these cabinet ministers also know what the key to their re-election is. The current Conservative Party has become Spain's largest party. As the leader of the Conservative Party, Deputy Prime Minister Canovas is also very likely to become the Prime Minister of Spain's next cabinet government.

This also means that the key to whether most cabinet members can be re-elected depends on Canovas' attitude. As long as Canovas becomes the prime minister, whether everyone can be re-elected is only a matter of Canovas's words.

As early as last year, cabinet ministers had strengthened their ties with Deputy Prime Minister Canovas. They are not stupid either, so they naturally know why Kanovas was appointed deputy prime minister.

With Grand Duke Serrano already in old age, the probability of Kanovas taking over the position of prime minister is not 100%, but at least 90%.

The cabinet ministers also do not have enough qualifications to compete with Canovas for the position of prime minister. If they want to continue to stay in the Spanish cabinet, they can only continue to stay in their positions by gaining Canovas' trust.

Of course, Carlo's attitude is also unignorable. Even Kanovas was supported by Carlo, so the cabinet ministers naturally attached great importance to Carlo's attitude as the king.

In order to be re-election, many cabinet ministers expressed their absolute loyalty to Carlo, which also increased Carlo's power invisibly.

Unlike Carlo's lack of management over the government during Prime Minister Primo's reign, Carlo has great power in the current Spanish government, which also makes Carlo's actions much easier.

With the power in hand, Carlo has issued many policies, which have also greatly changed some aspects of Spain.

One of these is about the Spanish public health policy.

Although Europe in this era was the most developed region in the world, the sanitary conditions inherited from the medieval times made European cities not so civilized.

Urination and littering can be seen everywhere in European cities. The smell of fragrant car and fine wine in London is not only the smog in London, but also the poor sanitation conditions in London and the stench of feces and garbage everywhere.

This is not actually an exaggeration. Even in later generations, some European cities still had urination and defecation everywhere.

If you are not lucky, you may not step on dog shit when you go out, but there is a higher probability that you will step on human shit.

Carlo lives in Madrid, although he doesn't want Madrid to become a city full of feces and garbage. As early as when Carlo first came to Spain, he suggested that Prime Minister Primo strengthen health control over Madrid.

During the decade when Carlo became the king of Spain, Spain has built many public toilets in important cities such as Madrid, effectively reducing the behavior of urinating and defecating in public places.

In order to strengthen supervision of uncivilized behavior, the Madrid Municipal Government has formulated relevant punishment policies. Those who urinate and defecate in the streets and alleys of Madrid will face fines of varying limits at the least, and the highest will face months or even years in prison.

Since such a policy was promulgated, the streets of Madrid have indeed become much cleaner. Carlo also plans to implement such sanitation management policies to other cities in Spain, striving to make all cities in Spain a sanitary city without feces and garbage.

After the sanitary environment became an important part of the mayor's assessment, the mayor of Madrid attached great importance to the sanitary environment in the streets and alleys of Madrid.

Carlo believes that as long as the performance assessment of mayors in each city is also included in the relevant sanitation environment assessment, these mayors will definitely try their best to reduce the situation of urination and defecation everywhere.

Of course, urination and defecation cannot be prohibited everywhere. It is necessary to provide a place for those who need to go to the toilet, that is, public toilets.

If you only know how to prohibit and not build more public toilets, it will only arouse the anger of the people.

Carlo does not want the governments of these cities to implement a one-size-fits-all policy, just to make their own political achievements ignoring the will of the people.

A month later, the giant conference room of the Spanish Parliament reopened. Members of the House of Commons will elect Spain's new prime minister during the meeting, and members of the House of Commons will also elect Spain's new Minister of Justice and Minister of Colonial Affairs.

Of course, the Military Commission will also elect a new Minister of Defense, and Carlo will also consider the candidates for the Spanish royal affairs and deputy prime minister.

Only after all these candidates are determined will the new Spanish cabinet government be considered to be established.

Five years have passed since the last cabinet government election, and the Spanish House of Commons has also experienced two elections in these five years.

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The Conservative Party has successfully become Spain's largest party, with a total of 146 seats, accounting for 49% of the seats of the House of Commons, and has crushed the Progressive Party and the Liberal Party on its own.

The Progressive Party retreated to the second largest party, with only 87 seats left in the House of Commons, accounting for 29.1% of the total seats.

The Liberal Party still retains the title of Spain's third largest party, but the Liberal Party's seats are constantly declining. Currently, the Liberal Party has only retained 27 seats in the House of Commons, accounting for only 9% of the total seats in the House of Commons.

In addition to the three major parties, several small parties also have cabinet seats, but the number is none more than double digits. The combined number of cabinet seats of these parties is similar to that of the Liberal Party, with a total proportion of only 8.4%, which is 25 seats.

In addition to these parties, there are 13 seats in the House of Commons that belong to non-partisans. The decline of nonpartisans is predictable, after all, the parties have a greater advantage in elections.

Parties can obtain political donations donated by the people, but individuals cannot obtain political cash. Parties can gather the joint efforts of many people, while individuals can only rely on their own efforts.

In the political arena of any country, the political power of the party is far greater than that of the individual. Many non-partisans before either joined one of the three major parties or formed their own parties, and few people continued to maintain their non-partisan status.

It can also be seen from the proportion of seats in the House of Commons that the Conservative Party has a great advantage.

The Conservative Party itself has nearly half of the proportion, and only needs to obtain about 30 more seats to get the position of Prime Minister of the Spanish cabinet.

No other party can compete with the Conservative Party. After all, if you want to get the position of Prime Minister of the Spanish cabinet, you must obtain more than 60% of the votes.

The Conservatives will not vote for their political enemies, which also means that these parties have no way to join the Spanish cabinet except to choose to cooperate with the Conservatives.

Cabinet elections are a relatively important political activity in Spain, and as the king, Carlo, of course, also participated in it.

The good news is that both the House of Lords and the House of Commons are held in the parliamentary building, which also allows Carlo to participate in both the House of Lords and the House of Commons.

The House of Commons is electing Spain's Prime Minister, while the House of Lords is electing Spain's Minister of Colonial Affairs and Minister of Justice.

Although not as good as the Prime Minister, the positions of these two cabinet ministers are still relatively important. The Minister of Colonial Affairs assisted Carlo in managing the affairs of the colonies, and his status was higher than that of the Governors of each colony.

The Minister of Justice is the supreme leader of Spanish justice. Like the Minister of Royal Affairs, he does not have to be controlled by the Spanish Cabinet government.

The Justice Minister only needs to be held accountable to the House of Lords and the King, and the purpose is to ensure the loyalty and reliability of the Justice Minister.

Compared with the elections in the House of Commons, the elections in the House of Lords are also quite lively. Both Houses have hundreds of members, and the scene of each election is quite lively.

However, compared to the House of Commons, the House of Lords is an institution that Carlo has completely controlled, and Carlo can even control the election results of the two cabinet ministers.

The parliamentary election lasted for a whole day, and finally successfully elected the Prime Minister of Spain and several important ministers.

As expected, former Deputy Prime Minister Canovas successfully won the position of prime minister and gained the power to form a separate cabinet because of the number of votes exceeding 60%.

This also means that the candidates for ministers from nine departments of the Spanish cabinet government will be between the thoughts of Prime Minister Canovas. As long as he wants, any member of the House of Commons has the hope of becoming a cabinet minister with a high status.

The elections in the House of Lords ended earlier than the elections in the House of Commons, and the Minister of Colonial Affairs and the Minister of Justice also had candidates early.

The former governor of Cuba was William, who was familiar with several Spanish colonies and was also a member of the Spanish nobles, and his loyalty was relatively reliable.

Manuel Dias Santos served as the Minister of Justice. Carlo is also familiar with this name, and as expected, he is also a member of the nobles.

However, Manuel is not an old-fashioned aristocrat, but a member of the new-fashioned aristocrat. Manuel is quite familiar with legal work. He was a lawyer before entering politics.

The aristocratic status and the reason why he was once a lawyer made Manuel successfully become the Spanish Minister of Justice. Carlo does not attach too much importance to the ability of the judicial minister. After all, the Spanish judiciary does not rely solely on the judicial minister, but also on the efforts of a series of institutions and personnel.

The position of Justice Secretary attaches more importance to loyalty. After all, this is completely independent of the cabinet government. It can regulate Spanish officials and parliamentarians, and it can also regulate the people.