Chapter 163 Election Law, Political Parties Law
On April 3, 1903, a piece of news from the Australian government completely detonated the entire Australian political arena.
Since the founding of Australia, political parties have basically not been mentioned in Australia, and the legitimacy of political parties has never been determined.
This has led to most Australian elections being participated in as individuals, and the power of political parties has basically disappeared.
But after the Australian government announced an announcement on elections and political parties, the word political party has once again entered everyone's sight.
According to the new regulations of the Australian government, political parties will be officially included in the scope of legal elections in Australia from now on, that is, Australia officially recognizes the legitimacy of political parties.
But there is also one point, political parties must be approved by the Senate before they can be established, and they must be subject to the supervision of the Senate.
Once it is discovered that a political party has engaged in favoritism and fraud in the election or violated the law, the Senate has the right to punish the party, and even report to Arthur, directly declare the party illegal, and force a party to dissolve.
The reason for agreeing to the legality of political parties is that when European political parties are already very common and highly recognized, Australia, which has a large number of European immigrants, is naturally no exception, and political parties are also one of the needs of many Australians.
However, under the premise of giving citizens the right to legally participate in political parties and government affairs, Arthur also retained the last trump card, that is, political parties are supervised by the Senate and must be reviewed by the Senate before they can be formally established and become a legal political party in Australia.
The election of the Senate is basically in the hands of Arthur. Except for the current cabinet members, other members of the Senate are nominated and appointed by Arthur.
Moreover, the cabinet members must eventually be reviewed by Arthur and the Senate before they can be successfully appointed.
By controlling the Senate, Arthur actually controls the lifeblood of the political party and is not worried that the political party will have a subversive impact on the political situation in Australia.
The legality of the political party has greatly changed the current situation in Australian politics, and it has also made one party ecstatic, that is, the Australian Labor Party, which has been established for more than ten years.
The establishment of the Australian Labor Party can even be traced back to the colonial period of Australia. It is a party united by workers. The original purpose was to promote the unity of Australia. Now it has evolved into forming trade unions and protecting the interests of workers.
The Australian Labor Party is a political party that has been established since the colonial period, but because of the successful establishment of the Principality of Australia, the Australian Labor Party disappeared for a period of time and disappeared from the Australian political arena.
People did not even dare to claim that they were from the Australian Labor Party. Before Arthur declared the legality of political parties, any party would be hostile to Australians who were fanatical about Arthur.
Now because of the influx of a large number of immigrants into Australia, political parties have to be legalized and given the right to participate in elections.
This has led to the Australian Labor Party, which was established before, also seeing the hope of entering the Australian political arena. After all, in terms of elections, the advantages of political parties are far greater than those of individuals.
Arthur was not surprised by this and did not oppose Australians joining various political parties.
However, it is also very necessary to add restrictions to political parties. In addition to the fact that political parties must be reviewed and supervised by the Senate, any election is not allowed to have corruption, bribery, and favoritism and fraud such as political donations.
In order to prevent the collusion between political parties and capitalists that has been common in European countries, Australia has even introduced election laws and party laws for this purpose. No political party is allowed to accept political donations privately, otherwise it is equivalent to fraud in the election.
This law is actually protecting the interests of small political parties and the poor. In the election of a world policeman in the future, those who can hold large-scale canvassing speeches across the country are often politicians supported by many capitalists.
Politicians without the support of capitalists do not even have the funds to support a speech, and cannot use speeches to canvass for themselves. Who will know these ambitious poor politicians?
Such elections directly put the rich and the poor in two situations. The rich have innate advantages and can naturally talk about it.
The poor even need to spend a lot of money to hold a speech, and there are not many people who can really hold on to the end of the election.
In a so-called free and democratic country, most of those who can participate in the election are capitalists with a little surplus wealth, or puppets pushed by capitalists.
Whether it is the House of Commons or cabinet officials, Arthur will never allow capitalists to interfere at will.
The royal family can indeed give up some power to the people, but this people refers to all ordinary people in Australia, not capitalists.
There is only one way for Australian political parties to obtain funds for activities, that is, to call on their supporters to donate to the Electoral Union established and supervised by the House of Commons. The Electoral Union will distribute 70% of these funds according to the proportion of seats in the House of Commons occupied by the political parties.
The remaining 30% will be evenly distributed to all legal political parties registered in Australia, so that all large and small political parties can taste the sweetness and not be left without any development funds.
The amount of funds that political parties can get depends on the proportion of seats they occupy in the House of Commons, which depends on the real talents of party members to fight for and campaign.
Because the members of the Electoral Union are composed of the royal family, the cabinet government, the House of Lords and the House of Commons, and are ultimately responsible to the royal family and supervised by the House of Lords and the House of Commons, this is also the most reassuring way for people at present.
After all, it is jointly supervised by the three most powerful departments and institutions in Australia and the royal family, which has eliminated corruption and injustice to the greatest extent.
In order to show the royal family's support for political parties and fair elections, the royal family specifically stated that it would donate 10,000 pounds to the Electoral Union every year to support all political parties and people who participate in political parties.
This move also allowed the royal family to gain the fanatical support of the Australian Labor Party, the only political party in Australia at present, and also promoted the development of Australian political parties in disguise.
According to statistics from the Senate, since the announcement of the legality of political parties in April and the promulgation of the Election Law and the Political Party Law, in just over two months, the Senate has reviewed the applications for the establishment of nearly 20 political parties.
Although more than half of the party applications were not approved, the reason was that their programs and goals were not beneficial to the people's livelihood and development of Australia, or even just some whims at times, which made some people have the urge to establish political parties.
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