The process to becoming the President of Central Kafrica begins far before the polls are on the immediate horizon. Political parties, the juggernauts of the political world, from the minor, single issue parties, to the giants of the Constitutional Alliance Party and the Strelkan Kroman National Workers Party. Each has their eyes on the presidency in an ideal world, the requirements set out in the constitution are simple; be at least 26 of age, have some experience in any form of lower government, be it current or prior, or be above the age of 35. According to convention, the campaign begins in the latter stages of the year prior to the nation going to the polls, for a term of 5 years, amended to follow a more uniform process during the 2nd Reguwu Presidency.
With President Drimp being the incumbent to the leadership bid of the Strelkan Kroman National Workers Party, he sailed to a primary victory in the beginning of this year, despite the looming threat of losing both houses of Congress he remains steadfast and optimistic that he can win the memorial house in Rinn in this election. As part of Project 2205, the SKNWP is working on getting members elected not just in Kafrica but the wider continent as a whole. To support this, President Drimp in recent months has begun the redistricting of the nation, in a clear attempt to subvert the course of our democratic processes. He argues “The Constitutional Alliance Party is a threat to the Kafrican order, they are INVITING the Zokesians back in to our Nation! They are sticking our head into the mouth of the Tiger!”
Between the Constitutional Alliance Party, the main candidates, the ever increasing in popularity Lilly Barrett and the last candidate to stand for the party, Jeb Growler. For the voting membership of the party, the choice was between one Drimp had already defeated, and someone who had defeated Drimp’s party. Rallying in Bal, a city on the edges of the Kafrican Nation, home to the Dalry Airbase and the Bal Baracks, holding troops that defend us from the Stahl Seig’s long grasp. “You, as a community, know just as well as anyone else, that this entire anti-zokesian rhetoric is a facade! President Drimp himself is a Zokesian! He is a liar! Zokesians, who walk among you, are your friends, your families, your partners. So why must we hate them? We mustn't!”
Meanwhile in the Svarskian dominated towns of Southern Grestin, President Drimp’s campaign gathered steam, with multiple rallies near the border regions, begging his Svarskian friends to stay and vote in the Kafrican elections, a move that has brought criticism from the opposition relating to Faucks voting legislation allowing for Svarskians to vote in Kafrican elections, despite being nominally part of the Imperial Union, still hold the right to vote in the Central Kafrican electorate. As the first televised and livestreamed debates loomed, Lilly Barrett and President Blimp Drimp prepared their notes, unseen to the audience, President Drimp had a cue card system emplaced for his already failing memory. The agenda for Debate 1 was Kafrican security, with the failures of the Drimp Administration to secure any such Kafrican wide deals outside of in-principle good faith diplomacy. The incumbency, blaming the Stahl Sieg’s influence operations in the IU for this failure, saying that their operatives have attempted and succeeded in influencing their allies to a more antagonistic stance, wanting the Kafrican alliance to be a projection of Kafrican power, rather than a safeguard of Kafrican people.
Lilly Barrett hit back to the sitting President, a sharp tone reflecting upon Drimp’s calm, old handed voice; “Perhaps if this administration was willing to appease the powers at be for a more favourable deal, or perhaps if this administration stopped seeing any Kafrican affair as its own, it would be more palatable to the international system!” She cried out to Drimp, almost as if she was pleading with him not to do something stupid in his final days in office. Yet President Drimp, taking a moment to rebuke; “Without the Strelkan Kroman National Worker’s party, Central Kafrica would not exist as a respected regional power.” Despite this, it was well known to both of them that outside of the region, Central Kafrica was overshadowed by its neghbors, its power limited to their whims. Agreeing, Ms Barrett responded in a stern, yet still pressing tone; “Yes Mr President that is true, however there is much more that we can do, the administration sees enemies at its borders, you have said that Zokesia is the enemy, yet I have it on good authority that t he SS aren’t run by the Zokesian government, and that Chikushinal is Strelkan, your party is called the Strelkan Kroman National Worker’s party. Why is it such that Kafrica is antagonist towards other Kafrican nations? Isn’t that an afoot to our common sense?” The crowd was stunned as Lilly began to dismantle the worldview of the President who had commanded such power in the last two decades over his businesses. Despite this, DrimpTV had already proclaimed the crooked sore loser, traitor, Ms Lilly Barrett as the evil character of Satan himself.
With Debate 1 fading, in early September Debate 2 began to fire, this time on domestic issues, with particular focus held to the plight of PLAD 7, a deal that was meant to be signed last year, yet, with no green light in sight it remains in limbo.
“Mr President, I’m sure you’re aware of the scandalous nature of your dealings with PLAD, opening going against your own legislation for one, and for two, what happened to the deal?” The President gawked at the moderator, almost offended by his tone as Lilly Barrett rose to answer the occasion, allowing it, she spoke to the audience around the country: “It is a foreign influence operation, we have no idea who however we do not wish to speculate who, yet I believe that the aggressive actions at home and abroad of this Administration has caused this influence payoff of PLAD to deny Kafrican industry.” The President, again on the defensive snapped back “I have provided jobs, security and peace to the people in Southern Grestin, and it has been your party, the Constitutional Alliance Party that has ruined my southern Grestinian utopia”
It was this, the midterms in 2202, where CAP had defeated Drimp’s appointed senators and governors in Faucks with almost no vocal opposition to their leadership. With Grestinians believing that President Drimp would eventually sell the state to Svarskia for a profit, much like he tried to do with North Grestin when he saved them from a Stahl Seig government by paying the Stahl Seig to move out. The President responded, “I put my governors and my capable friends in charge to oversee the end of the chaos brought by Strelkan rule, I restored democracy. I could’ve very easily prevented the elections in Faucks 2 years ago. I made you Lilly, I let you win the elections, your party didn’t even say thank you Mr President you’re so kind.” Lilly Barrett was stunned by this, the President, openly mocking his debate opponent, her face scrunching up in anguish as she controlled her emotions: “And Mr President, do you believe that you can cancel the upcoming elections?” The President responded; “If there is fraud yes, i can and i will cancel fraudulent elections”
In other candidate related news, the candidate running his operation from Bown, Lulmir Sopa, who is better known under the name of Kerman Supreme has said that if elected all Kafricans are required to shoot another Kafrican in the face, and that he will ensure that President Drimp “gets the treatment he deserves in his Sopost villa” In reference to the Sexstien case which had gripped the nation over the last year and a half, multiple government promises broken. With no more debates before the people went to the polls in early November, the nation held its breath for an electorate spectacle.
In the final few days before the November polls, President Drimp announced that the voting booths will be manned by his troops, his private security, striking fear into anyone who intended to vote against him in the forthcoming elections. Multiple states threatened, their governors threatened, to call in their own security forces. As polling stations were setup by the national guard, President Drimp, on Dritter, wished his opponents “good luck against the tide of my patriots!”
Responding in kind on Dritter, Lilly Barret also wished her opponent, her major opponent for the election good luck and may he bask in the concession of victory at month's end.
November 6th, 2204, Kafrica went to the polls. Following all the fears and concern that Drimp’s security forces would overrun the election’s results, falsifying ballots in the states where he held the victories anyway to give him full control of their electors’ votes. None of that happened, because of the presence of the state militias. On the week ending November 6th, with a commanding lead in the electoral college, it was announced that President Drimp had lost the election, Lilly Barret, senator-govenor of Faucks was now President Elect of Central Kafrica. Yet President Drimp will not succeed victory to her, he announced that “I will not conceded memorial house, I won the election, it was defrauded away from me and the true Kafrican patriots who follow me” In the wake of this, President Drimp moved many forces, almost the entire Kafrican army and airforce, to the borders of Svarskia and Chikushinal, striking fear into the nation that in order to keep his position in memorial house, he will invade his neighbours and his allies.
God Bless the United States of Central Kafrica.
