#Exarchates

[elimgarakdemocrat]

2376 Bajoran Election | Elect.Wiki.Org/Fed

The first Bajoran General election under the Third Republic took place on February 2, 2376. The 676 seats in the Bajoran Parliament were selected based on proportional representation, with voters for parties below the 5 seat threshold having their votes redistributed to other parties of their choice. Shown are all the parties that gained seats, with their adjusted vote totals.

The Progress Faction was able to gain a plurality but not a majority of seats, and had to form a coalition to rule. The Peace Faction refused to provide the necessary seats, and as such the Progress Faction was forced to form an alliance with the Pagh Vedeka faction.

Progress Faction [40.9% of the vote, 277 seats]

Platform: To promote the material conditions of the people of Bajor, via economic development and intersystemic cooperation.

Scientific Universalist Party [15.5% of the vote, 106 seats]

Platform: To promote the ideals of scientific rationality and its application to the wellbeing of the Bajoran People.

Voter base: educated elites, many of whom are Alienists (people who believe the Prophets to be time-controlling aliens rather than Gods)

Prophetic Democracy Party [13.2% of the vote, 89 seats]

Platform: To strengthen the Pagh of the Bajoran people.

Voter base: rural professional middle class. Almost entirely Prophetists (people who believe the Prophets to be Gods)

Social Democratic Party [5.8% of the vote, 39 seats]

Platform: To promote the general welfare.

Voter base: urban professional middle class and some of the working class. Mix of Prophetists and Alienists.

Communist Party (Marxist) [3.3% of the vote, 22 seats]

Platform: Workers of the World unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains! [In Federation Standard]

Voter base: mostly urban former hardline revolutionaries, largely ones who disagreed with the dehumanization policies the Communist Party tried to engage in following the Federation withdrawal from DS9.

Democratic Socialist Party [2.2% of the vote, 15 seats]

Platform: To promote the welfare of the working people of Bajor.

Voter base: urban educated elite and some of the urban working class.

Pluralist Party [0.9% of the vote, 6 seats]

Platform: to promote the rights and values of minority species on Bajor.

Voter base: almost entirely humans settled on Bajor, and some non-humans who live in human districts.

Peace Faction [28.2% of the vote, 190 seats]

Platform: To promote a free and truly independent Republic of Bajor.

Independence Party [17.2% of the vote, 116 seats]

Platform: To free Bajor by resisting the intrigues of intergalactic empires.

Voter base: rural liberals of many stripes. The Independence Party was the political wing of the Bajoran resistance and ruling party during the provisional government, but lost much of its base due to attrition in that time period.

Prophetic Liberation Party [5.3% of the vote, 36 seats]

Platform: To liberate the Bajoran working class via the will of the Prophets.

Voter base: left-wing Prophetists.

People's Party [2.5% of the vote, 17 seats]

Platform: To oppose the machinations of politicians and produce a government that truly works for the people.

Voter base: low social trust voters.

Communist Party [1.7% of the vote, 11 seats]

Platform: Workers of the World unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains! [in Bajoran Standard]

Voter base: former hardline revolutionaries. The Communist Party was the political wing of the hardline Bajoran resistance fighters and the opposition during the provisional government. Lost power in several schisms over the species character of Communism.

Communist Party (Nalist) [1.5% of the vote, 10 seats]

Platform: D'jarra ga, Tessipa ga, Pagh'ten ga Pagh. [Traditional Nalist slogan, roughly translates to No Caste, No Lords, No Prophets But The Soul]

Voter base: former hardline revolutionaries who split from the Communist Party when it refused to fully carry through on dehumanization policies following the Abandonment of DS9.

Pagh Vedeka Faction [24.5% of the vote, 166 seats]

Platform: To restore the dignity of Bajor through strength; for only in strength is there dignity.

Prophetist Party [11.2% of the vote, 76 seats]

Platform: To glorify the prophets and create a new Bajor in the image of their plan.

Voter base: hardline Prophetist conservatives, many members of higher D’jarras. Most older Bajorans who remembered the pre-occupation status quo.

Bajoranist Party [5.2% of the vote, 35 seats]

Platform: To promote the unique interests of Bajoran people against alien interests.

Voter base: rural conservatives who are less focused on religious issues. Mostly still Prophetists.

Reparationist Party [3.6% of the vote, 24 seats]

Platform: To extract reparations from the Former Cardassian Oppressors, and bring justice to the victims of the Cardassian Occupation.

Voter base: hardliner anti-Cardassians, often in areas more heavily affected by the Cardassian Occupation.

Revanchist Party [2.6% of the vote, 18 seats]

Platform: To restore Classical Bajor to its True and Original Borders.

Voter base: hardliner anti-Cardassians, generally from urban provinces.

Bajoran Independence Party [1.2% of the vote, 8 seats]

Platform: To free Bajor by resisting the intrigues of intergalactic empires, by force if necessary.

Voter base: former Independence Party members who disagreed with the isolationist and pacifist stances of the party.

Communist Party (Surakist-Cesarist-Khanist) [0.7% of the vote, 5 seats]

Platform: To liberate the proletarian mass of Bajor against the bourgeois decadence of the ruling class.

Voter base: former members of the Communist Party who followed the teachings of Vedek Li, who sought inspiration from major “communist” figures throughout history.

Unaffiliated [6.4% of the vote, 43 seats]

Jeraddoist Party [4.2% of the vote, 28 seats]

Platform: To preserve the natural beauty of Bajor against industrial exploitation.

Voter base: educated elites disgusted with the energy plant on the moon Jeraddo and other similar development projects

Libertarian Party [1.3% of the vote, 9 seats]

Platform: To challenge the cult of the omnipotent state and defend the rights of the individual.

Voter base: educated elites who dislike the main political parties

Communist Party (Maoist) [0.9% of the vote, 8 seats]

Platform: To serve the people, never benefiting oneself, always benefit others.

Voter base: former Communist Party (Marxist) voters who agreed with the fundamental interspecies nature of Communism in the speciescharacterism schism, but disagreed with the Marxists for participating in bourgeois coalitional thinking.

This is part of a series I'm calling Exarchates, about the politics of Bajor and Cardassia post DS9.

[nights-at-crystarium]

[absolem0]

gave that characters quote generator a few tries

[twinkle-art]

ephemeral is the flesh

[destiny-islanders]

transparency

[mightier]

apples & oranges They're both the kind of caretakers that would peel oranges/cut apples and spontaneously present each other a bowl of fruit.

[yhane]

G’raha Tia

[berrybooze]

The bookworms and their young charges

[suwisuwii]

If I were to tell you that this isn't the end — that we will meet again — would you believe me?

[shimoina17]

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[samijen]

silly lil kitties

[elimgarakdemocrat]

"""

My fellow free peoples,

There is an ancient Terran story, about a city called Rome. It reigned over it's subjects with an iron fist. When it was defied, it turned it's enemies lands into a desert, and called it peace. It's watchword, "woe to the conquered."

But every sun must set, and one day a tribal army sacked Rome. The citizens negotiated a peace tribute, to be paid in 5 kilos of gold, and the tribe agreed. But the tribal leader weighed the scales, so the Romans cried out that this was unfair.

And to that, the leader threw his sword upon the scales, and declared "woe to the conquered."

Was he wrong?

[Crowd: NO!]

How dare they demand fairness!

How dare they demand grace!

How dare they demand nuance!

[Crowd chants: How Dare They! How Dare They!]

Cardassia now demands fairness, demands grace, demands nuance. And our friends across the aisle, latinum tower Liberals sitting on Terra

[Crowd boos]

on Vulcan,

[Louder boos]

on Risa

[Deafening boos]

are too caught up in performing their misplaced sympathy to see this for the act it is.

There's an ancient parable about a scorpion and a frog

[Crowd groans, chuckles]

Oh [smirks], you've heard this one before, have you?

[Crowd laughs]

[Face darkens] Well it's time to crush that scorpion under our feet.

[Crowd cheers]

Full Coachella: woe to the conquered!

[Deafening cheers]

Thank you, and may you walk as free peoples today and tomorrow!

[Loud cheers]

"""

- Ralph Emerson (FP-Cuellar), leader of the maquish Free Peoples Party, at the January 15 2379 emergency meeting of the party to discuss the invocation of the Treaty of Coachella by the Bajoran foreign ministry.

This is part of a series I'm calling Exarchates, about the politics of Bajor and Cardassia post DS9.

[nights-at-crystarium]

"you would see the person beneath the hood?"

[athena-ishnuala]

Recap this series~ Heavensward/Shadowbringers/Endwalker grooms

[underarchon]

"What thinkest thou, of mine appearance?"

[silketara]

Lakeland Picnic :3