# MBC **URL:** \ **Category:** News Broadcasts\ **Created:** [November 24, 2017, 11:47am UTC](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/mbc/3117 "2017-11-24T11:47:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 176
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(Dated 11th July 2022) ![](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/uploads/default/original/1X/c63bb343a7c4075cae6bfa11d91b5b717530655b.png) News at Seven: DEMOCRATIC LANDSLIDE IN BY-ELECTION DAY The Democratic Party has scored a landslide victory in the 157 by-elections that took place across the morning and afternoon today, whilst the Conservative and Labour party are bashed by big losses. Despite their best efforts, leaders of both the Labour and Conservative parties, Franklin Barvata and Benjamin Wardola failed to mitigate losses their parties were expected to hit this Monday, following the Kalmington child sexual abuse scandals. Osbourne Saudaran, however, has been hailed as the “right man at the right time” by his Democratic peers, as Saudaran and other senior party members welcome their newest Kalmington colleagues, all 128 of them, which raises the Democratic standing in the chamber significantly, from 205 to 333. Meanwhile, Labour lost 73 seats to hold on to 789, whilst the Conservatives lost the most, with 77 seats falling to other parties. The Conservatives lost their entire 7 seat holding in Justelvard, replaced exclusively by the Democrats (and not the Justelvardic Unionist Party, the dominant Justelvard party). Their party now holds 525 seats. Other parties to gain seats in the chamber are the Liberal Party, largely unaffected by the scandal and gaining 7 seats; and the Greens, who won 12. The Farmers Union Party’s former leader and Deputy Prime Minister under the Johannes-von Hague coalition Johnny von Hague, was named in the Nicki Jenkins dossier, and paid his bail in full leading up to his first court hearing. There is now an apparent power different in the chamber, whereby Labour now cannot achieve its weak working majority on its own that it has held from the 2021 general election. Before, Labour held 10 seats over the working majority (the total seats in the chamber, minus the abstentionist Marislian Independence Party and the two speakers) and thus was able to pass legislation as a minority government when party rebellion was not prevalent. Under Karmer’s short administration, the ex-prime minister entered a coalition with the Democrats to bolster their standing in government, which saw government have 1,067 seats, far more than the 898 seats required to form an absolute majority. Barvata inherited this coalition when he returned to office. But now since his party has lost 73 seats and their coalition partners have gained 128, many expect Saudaran will pressure Barvata into relinquishing more cabinet and junior government positions to the Democratic Party, and possibly even rethink the coalition now that he holds more of the cards. Some are even suggesting that if Saudaran held the coalition hostage, he would force a general election, and given the current lack of popularity of the big two parties and the success of the Democratic Party today, might propell the Democrats into their first government in over thirty one years. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/mbc/3117)._