2020 Flarland presidential elections
The 2020 Flarland presidential elections is being held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. It will be the 59th quadrennial presidential election.. Two candidates from the previous election are recandidating, namely Republican president Parker Scott and Green Party representative Damien Smithers.
Central issues of the election include the controversy regarding the planned impeachment of Parker Scott, killings of native Ashtalaics, the Black Lives Matter movement gaining traction in Flarland, tax evasion scandals and the likely chance of the Flarlandian-Ashtalaian wall giving the go-ahead, as well as the central topic of the year, the Flarlandian mismanagement of the COVID-19 pandemic, known by state-run media (including Parker Scott) as the "Kaizhungese virus". Opposition leaders are also hoping that all of these events, coupled by the Democratic Party's winning of the 2018 legislative elections, will probably lead to an unprecedented opposition victory.
Candidates[edit | edit source]
Seven candidates have been registered:
- Parker Scott (FRP): Seeking re-election, he will promise an improvement of the Flarlandian economy by the end of the year.
- Winston Albert (FLP): promotes his anti-Republican agenda and dogma by defending the democratic world, including the cleanup of the political mess between 2016 and 2020 and the reopening of the bilateral ties with Ashtalaia, as suggested in the 2018 legislative elections won by his party.
- Wayne Witkins (CLB): Independent party registered in July 2020, seeking a majority. Due to the late registration, the government forbade the party from being included in certain regional ballots, thus attracting 60% of potential voters, but is eligible to take part in the 2022 legislative elections.
- Damien Smithers (Green)
- Jamie Wallace (WLP)
Parties not taking part in 2020[edit | edit source]
- KWP: Dissolved in the wake of the results of the previous election, coupled with Khyber leaving politics, even though it was a joke.
- FCP: The FCP stepped down in April 2020 after suspicions emerged from the leading parties that the Kaizhungese Communist regime was hiding information about the spread of the virus in its native Kaizhung.