February 2022 Minister of Engagement special election
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The February 2022 Minister of Engagement special election is an ongoing election held in the South Pacific from 23 February ‒ 4 March 2022 to elect a new Minister of Engagement after incumbent Purple Hyacinth had resigned. Currently, the sole candidate running is Jeeve.
Background
Cabinet positions usually are elected concurrently every four months. However, should an incumbent resign and more than half of the term remain, a special election for the post must be held.
Purple Hyacinth, the incumbent, was only shortly before elected in the February 2022 Cabinet election. Only five days after the certification of the election, she announced that she felt burnt out in the office and did not believe to be able to return to her duties faithfully within the term; and as such, she resigned the office on the 22nd of February, 2022.[1]
As the half-term line was still far away, a special election had to be called.
Electoral System
The office of the Minister of Engagement is a Cabinet office, all of which are to be elected using Instant-Runoff voting. A voter ranks as many of the standing candidates as they wish in descending order of preference; the worst-performing candidates are eliminated from the tally one after the other and the votes for them re-distributed according to the voters' preferences until a candidate has attained an absolute majority of votes.
Candidates
Only a single candidate accepted their nomination, namely Jeeve, while Altrurismo, Jebediah, and BlockBuster2K43 declined theirs; Pronoun, Amerion, USoVietnam, Doge Land, and Nicholas and Great Britain never responded to theirs.[2]
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Jeeve | Legislator of the South Pacific (since January 2022) |
Better Then Ron[3] | |
Campaigns
Citing their poor campaigning skills, Jeeve's campaign was relatively short, featuring only a few bullet points of their plans for each project within the Ministry. They planned to continue their predecessor's approach of delegating duties to and thus empowering individual project leaders and trying to recruit new staff members. The cards project would have concrete guides for card farming written, a formal system for requesting new graphics would be established, and the gameside introductory dispatches would be reworked to make them more concise in favor of moving in-depth information to the wiki. Jeeve came under intense questioning by their fellow legislators due to their ties to several raider(-leaning) regions, questioning their true allegiances and trustworthiness with Cabinet-level intelligence.[3]
Results
The results will likely be announced on the 4th of March, 2022.[2]
References
- ↑ Purple Hyacinth (22 Feb '22): Resignation from MoE and the CG. Retrieved 22 Feb '22.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 EC Kris Kringle (22 Feb '22): Declarations of Candidacy. Retrieved 1 Mar '22.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jeeve (27 Feb '22): Jeeve For Minister of Engagement | Better Then Ron. Retrieved 1 Mar '22.