Sept. 2014 General Elections

[Tomb]

The North Pacific community was anticipating an election when September came.
The North Pacific holds General Elections in January, May, and September for Delegate, Vice Delegate, and Speaker of the Regional Assembly (RA.) As the time came, everyone expected the incumbents to run again, and so they did with exception of the Speaker of the RA, Zyvetskistaahn.

Anyways, as the candidacy declaration started, the incumbent Delegate r3naissanc3r and Vice Delegate Abacathea accepted their nominations.
However, something unexpected happened during the Vice Delegate candidacy declaration. Flemingovia, Romanoffia, Democratic Donkeys, and Falaptorius all declared or accepted their nominations for Vice Delegate. McMasterdonia, Minister of Foreign Affairs made a list of the strengths of each candidate and the potential they had in winning this election. The list can be viewed at: http://forum.thenorthpacific.org/single/?p=8161235&t=7235038.
Meanwhile, Mall declared his candidacy for Delegate, and Lord Nwahs, the Minister of Culture at the time, declared his candidacy for Speaker of the RA. Malvad who had also declared his candidacy eventually threw his support for Lord Nwahs also.

And so with in a few days, the race has started! It was obvious from the beginning that the Delegate and Speaker races were going to be a landslide victory for r3naissanc3r and Lord Nwahs, respectively. The Vice Delegate race saw more competition among the candidates and everyone knew that it was going to be a rough race. The results for Delegate and Speaker of the RA races came out as an overwhelming victory for r3n and Lord Nwahs. The Vice Delegacy race came out with none of the candidates reaching the 50% mark. So a Run-off election was called between Abacathea and Flemingovia, which Abacathea emerged as the victor of.

Later on, R3n made his cabinent announcement. In it, he appointed Gladio as Minister of Defense, McMasterdonia as Minister of Home Affairs, Malvad as Minister of Culture, Punk d as Minister of Communications, Abacathea as Minister of Regional Security, and The Democratic Republic of Tomb as Minister of Home Affairs.
The announcement can be viewed at:
http://forum.thenorthpacific.org/single/?p=8164988&t=7240778.

And so with that, Delegate R3n’s government got another term, and it will be exciting to see his government’s incoming accomplishments specially with new faces in the cabinet.

 

[Tomb]

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~ Tomb

 

[r3naissanc3r]

Edited version:

September was election month for The North Pacific. In the third scheduled election of the year, citizens were called to select who will serve as delegate, vice delegate, and speaker of the Regional Assembly for the following four months.

The delegate election saw incumbent r3naissanc3r winning easily against Mall. r3naissac3r ran on a campaign of continuing his policies for intensive recruitment and integration, an independent direction for the North Pacific Army, a strong emphasis on World Assembly affairs, and a diverse and busy cultural agenda. In the election for speaker, Zyvetskistaahn decided not to run for a third term. Lord Nwahs, who had served as Minister of Culture in the preceding term, won the election virtually uncontested, with the only other candidate, Malvad, withdrawing from the race and throwing his support behind Lord Nwahs.

Unlike these two offices, the vice delegate election saw a large number of strong contestants. Incumbent Abacathea, as well as Democratic Donkeys, falapatorius, flemingovia, and Romanoffia, all declared their candidacies. The election sparked long and lively debate between the candidates and the electorate. Eventually, Abacathea achieved a lead in the vote, though not strong enough to win the election in the first round. As delegate and vice delegate in TNP are elected by majority vote, a runoff round was required, where Abacathea defeated flemingovia and secured a second term. The election saw very high participation: 48 citizens voted, the second most in TNP's history.

Following the conclusion of the election, Delegate r3naissanc3r announced his Cabinet for the new term. Gladio, mcmasterdonia and The Democratic Republic of Tomb continued as Ministers of Defense, Foreign Affairs, and Home Affairs, respectively. Malvad was appointed as Minister of Culture and punk d as Minister of Communications, replacing newly-elected Speaker Lord Nwahs and Crushing Our Enemies. r3naissanc3r assumed himself the Ministry of World Assembly Affairs, while Abacathea was appointed Minister of Regional Security, a portfolio reflecting the vice delegate's role as chair of the Security Council.

In the weeks following the election, the delegate, vice delegate, and members of the Security Council have run extensive campaigns to maximize their in-game endorsement counts. Delegate r3naissanc3r issued a challenge to the region to surpass the previous record of 536 delegate endorsements. The challenge has not been beat yet, with the delegate standing at 530 endorsements at the time of writing, though another record has already been achieved: the delegate's endorsement rate for the first time in TNP's history exceeded 80%. Furthermore, in the latest World Census Report for most WA endorsements, the delegate, vice delegate, and seven members of the Security Council won nine out of the ten top spots in the world. The record endorsement counts and the large and active WA population of TNP are a testament to the efforts by successive TNP governments to engage and properly naturalize the thousands of nations in the region.