2023 Alrodnia legislative election

2023 Alrodnia legislative election

31 October 2023 (2023-10-31)
All 5 seats of the DPNB 3 seats needed for a majority
Opinion polls
Turnout	100%
First party Second party   Leader Syarif I.M Ars R. Party Alrodnia Islamic Party Alrodnia People's Democratic Party Alliance Koalisi Islam Bersatu Alrodnia Koalisi Sosial-Demokrat Alrodnia Leader since 2022 2022 Leader's seat Omasia Pasefek Last election 55.55%, 3 seats 44.44%, 2 seats Seats won 3 2 Seat change Popular vote 4 5 Percentage 44.44% 55.55% Swing ▼ 11.1 pp ▲ 11.1 pp
Alrodnia Map After Election, Results of the election by state. Green indicates states won by Syarif I.M (KIBA), and Brown indicates states won by Ars R. (KSDA)
Prime Minister before election Syarif I.M Alrodnia Islamic Party Elected Prime Minister Syarif I.M Alrodnia Islamic Party

The 2023 Alrodnia legislative election was an election in the Republic of Alrodnia for the 5 seats of the Alrodnia Senate. The election took place on October 31, 2023.

This election was contested by 2 large coalitions in Alrodnia: the United Islamic Coalition (KIBA) and the Social-Democratic Coalition (KSDA). The two coalitions are fiercely competitive. Especially because of the political crisis, this election will determine Alrodnia's policies for at least the next year.

Electoral system

The election system in Alrodnia is First-past-the-post voting that if the party/coalition makes a majority of people vote in one state, Thus, they would get all the seats in that state, and in Alrodnia, each state would get one seat.

Elections in Alrodnia are regulated in the 2022 Alrodnia Constitution, specifically Article 8, Clause 1-5, which said;

(1) General Elections are held at least once a year

(2) The President is elected by the people
(3) The Prime Minister is elected by a senate elected by the people
(4) The President's term of office is 1 year (after which he can be re-elected)

(5) The prime minister's term of office is 1 year (after which he can be re-elected, but only once)

The constitution says that elections are held at least once a year, And the term of Prime Minister and President is one year too, in the condition that the Prime Minister can only run for re-election only once.

Nomination

Social Democrat

2023 Alrodnia Social-Democrat Coalition ticket
Ars R.
for Prime Minister
Prime Minister (2022–2023) President of KSDA (2022–present) Senator of Pasefek (2020–present)
Campaign

United Islamic

2023 Alrodnia United Islam Coalition ticket
Syarif I.M
for Prime Minister
Prime Minister (2023-2024) Chairman of KIBA (2022–present) Senator of Omasia (2019–present)
Campaign

Campaign

The campaign is filled with popular issues, both from KIBA and KSDA. Most campaigns also some attack other candidates with their issues. The campaign was considered quite effective in increasing electability, KSDA which carried out more campaigns than KIBA managed to get superior electability during July.

There are several suggestions to hold debates between candidates to show the vision and mission of the candidates, but they are still being researched. Because this is the new election that have a debate between the prime minister candidates.

Issues

New Reformation Program

The new Reformation program is a controversial program that has an obligation to be Religious. Moderate and liberal organizations are against this program. Because, they said, an obligation is the destruction of Reformation and Democracy, Social-Democrat coalition, Very against this program and criticizes this program, They said that the Syarif I.M government has done something useless. The people questioned the reasons why this program had to be implemented by the government.

Parliamentary-Government Crisis

Since 2022, The DPNB has been controlled by KIBA or United Islamic Coalition, and The government is controlled by the Social-Democrat coalition. They continued to dispute and create frictions in the Government and Parliament, which led to the Crisis that has occurred until now. This crisis must end, Because if the crisis continued, Then it will lead to a coup, or revolution, led by Parliament or the government, Social Democrat coalition said that Parliament and Government can Cooperate, But because KIBA makes frictions, This crisis happened.

Otherwise, KIBA said that the Social Democrat coalition makes frictions, which makes crises, Debates, and disputes continue on both sides, while Government and Parliament Relations worsened.

Russian-Ukraine war

Because of the Recognition withdrawal of the Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic in 2022, in Syarif I.M reign the debates happened in Alrodnia, Social-Democrat said that Alrodnia must be kind and neutral with every party in this Russia-Ukraine war, Including Russia, Ukraine and Donetsk People's Republic and Luhansk People's Republic, But KIBA said that Alrodnia must withdraw the recognition because Alrodnia must neutral, However, KIBA has been questioned for not appealing to Russia's and Ukraine's claims in the same way they did with Donetsk and Luhansk, they stated that Russia and Ukraine were members of the UN, and because Alrodnia recognized all members of the UN, they had to admit it, but Donetsk and Luhansk were not members of the UN and were not recognized by the majority of UN members.

Non-neutral media

In 2021, during the reign of Ars R, the media has a very big influence in conveying information. According to Ars R, the media should be the transmitter of the latest information that makes people aware of the condition of the country and its government. However, Syarif I.M. denied this. He considered that this was just an excuse to gain public support through the media. Syarif I.M himself claimed that Alrodnia's media were no longer neutral and partisan. According to him, this is what the public should be afraid of because it includes efforts to destroy democracy.

Media

Alrodnian News is hosting Election Night on October 31st on YouTube. They said that this could showcase Alrodnia's democracy to people at home and abroad.

Polling

2023 Legislative election polling

In the opinion polls, initially, Syarif I.M was quite ahead, but around March, the opinion polls of Syarif I.M dropped rapidly. There were several months when Syarif I.M. was able to restore his electability, but after the campaign, there were almost no months where Syarif I.M. was ahead in the polls.

Experts estimate that this happened because of Syarif I.M.'s New Reformation program. And Ars R.'s opposition to the program put Ars R. ahead in the survey.

Before the nominations

February

Date	Koalisi Islam Bersatu Alrodnia		Koalisi Sosial-Demokrat Alrodnia
6 February 2023	55.5%	5	44.4%	4
13 February 2023	44.4%	4	55.5%	5
20 February 2023	44.4%	4	55.5%	5
27 February 2023	33.3%	3	66.7%	6

March

Date	Koalisi Islam Bersatu Alrodnia		Koalisi Sosial-Demokrat Alrodnia
6 March 2023	44.4%	4	55.5%	5
13 March 2023	33.3%	3	66.7%	6
20 March 2023	55.5%	5	44.4%	4

May

Date	Koalisi Islam Bersatu Alrodnia		Koalisi Sosial-Demokrat Alrodnia
21 May 2023	33.3%	3	66.7%	6
28 May 2023	33.3%	3	66.7%	6

June

Date	Koalisi Islam Bersatu Alrodnia		Koalisi Sosial-Demokrat Alrodnia
5 June 2023	44.4%	4	55.5%	5
12 June 2023	55.5%	5	44.4%	4
19 June 2023	44.4%	4	55.5%	5
26 June 2023	55.5%	5	44.4%	4

July

Date	Koalisi Islam Bersatu Alrodnia		Koalisi Sosial-Demokrat Alrodnia
3 July 2023	44.4%	4	55.5%	5

After the nominations

July

Date	Koalisi Islam Bersatu Alrodnia		Koalisi Sosial-Demokrat Alrodnia
10 July 2023	33.3%	3	66.7%	6
17 July 2023	44.4%	4	55.5%	5
24 July 2023	44.4%	4	55.5%	5
31 July 2023	44.4%	4	55.5%	5

August

Date	Koalisi Islam Bersatu Alrodnia		Koalisi Sosial-Demokrat Alrodnia
7 August 2023	33.3%	3	66.7%	6
14 August 2023	33.3%	3	66.7%	6
21 August 2023	44.4%	4	55.5%	5
28 August 2023	44.4%	4	55.5%	5

September

Date	Koalisi Islam Bersatu Alrodnia		Koalisi Sosial-Demokrat Alrodnia
4 September 2023	44.4%	4	55.5%	5

October

Date	Koalisi Islam Bersatu Alrodnia		Koalisi Sosial-Demokrat Alrodnia
6 October 2023	55.5%	5	44.4%	4
13 October 2023	44.4%	4	55.5%	5
20 October 2023	44.4%	4	55.5%	5
27 October 2023	44.4%	4	55.5%	5

Results

From the Counting Votes

Coalition		%	Seats
	Koalisi Islam Bersatu Alrodnia	44.44%	3
	Koalisi Sosial-Demokrat Alrodnia	55.56%	2
Total		100.00	5

Senate

  Koalisi Islam Bersatu Alrodnia (60%)

  Koalisi Sosial-Demokrat Alrodnia (40%)

People vote

  Koalisi Islam Bersatu Alrodnia (44.44%)

  Koalisi Sosial-Demokrat Alrodnia (55.56%)

State	KIBA		KSDA		Total
	Votes	%	Votes	%
Apisia	1	100.00%	0	00.00%	1 (100.00%)
Omasia	1	100.00%	0	00.00%	1 (100.00%)
Pasefek	0	00.00%	3	100.00%	3 (100.00%)
Mamaksia	2	100.00%	0	00.00%	2 (100.00%)
Abisia	0	00.00%	2	100.00%	2 (100.00%)

Aftermath

Controversies

After the election, Ars R. and his party sued KIBA to Alrodnia Law Council because they had found evidence and allegations of fraud and irregularities in the election, namely that even though KSDA and Ars R. were elected by the majority of the people, they did not get a majority of seats. Because of this irregularity, Ars R. Party demanded to change the system from First-past-the-post voting to Party-list proportional representation. This system is considered more democratic because it only allocates people's votes to parliamentary seats. So, if one candidate wins the popular vote, then they will also win a seat in parliament, therefore this system is considered more efficient.

The next day, the Law Council decided to annul the 2023 election results. The Law Council also decided that the Senate was required to hold a vote for 3 consecutive days among senate members to determine whether to hold a repeat election and change the electoral system from First-past-the-post voting to Party-list proportional representation.

Voting on senate

First day

Change of the Voting system

		%	Seats
	Party-list proportional representation	60.00%	3
	Abstain	20.00%	1
	First past the vote	20.00%	1
Total		100.00	5

Repetition of the 2023 election

		%	Seats
	Agree	40.00%	2
	Abstain	20.00%	1
	Against	40.00%	2
Total		100.00	5

Second day

Repetition of the 2023 election

		%	Seats
	Agree	40.00%	2
	Abstain	20.00%	1
	Against	40.00%	2
Total		100.00	5

Third day

Repetition of the 2023 election

		%	Seats
	Agree	40.00%	2
	Abstain	0.00%	0
	Against	60.00%	3
Total		100.00	5

After the voting

After voting in the senate, the Law Council agreed to accept the voting results, and for the next election, the system that will be used is Party-list proportional representation and the election will not be repeated, and the election results are accepted. After the decision, there was some resistance, especially from KIBA which rejected changes to the system. KSDA seemed to accept the decision, but was somewhat disappointed because there was no repetition of the election. However, overall, KSDA accepted the Law Council's decision.