Extreme Cold Era: Shelter Don't Keep Waste-Chapter 683 - 637 Manipulating the Political Arena

After Eldest Princess Annie returned and ran as a candidate for Prime Minister, various non-Northern Territory forces began to quickly unite.

They formed an alliance-like entity to express their political demands and interests by supporting Eldest Princess Annie's candidacy, and soon compromised on a political agenda that represents their interests.

The reason for saying this is because Perfikot saw Eldest Princess Annie's political agenda for the campaign, as well as the political propositions she put forward, which were filled with various products of interest compromises.

Perfikot did not dislike this outcome; at least in her view, it was a form of progress.

At the very least, it's progress for Eldest Princess Annie.

Although she did not clearly articulate her own political stance, at least as a Prime Minister candidate, she integrated opinions from quite a few different factions.

Despite the intention behind these opinions to unite against the Northern Territory forces, truly aligning so many factions with consistent external interests is not easy.

At least from a politician's perspective, being able to integrate so many different factions is not an easy achievement in itself.

This also means Eldest Princess Annie has finally begun to exert her political influence as a royal family member, no longer playing the role of a dispensable mascot.

Consequently, three interest groups have formed in the Northern Territory: the alliance of Northern Territory and dominions, the factions united against the Northern Territory, and the third-party forces formed by small factions huddled together.

In some sense, this can be seen as the embryonic form of three political parties.

In the Victor Empire, due to the restrictions and influences of the governmental system and past political institutions, political parties did not appear on the historical stage.

Currently, along with the implementation of the parliamentary system and the Prime Minister cabinet system, political parties have begun to gradually form and start to appear on the historical stage through this method.

Currently, in the Citizen Parliament, out of a hundred seats, the alliance of Northern Territory and dominions, as a faction wanting to push for reform, controls thirty-five seats since their interests are mostly aligned, allowing these thirty-five seats to vote consistently.

The factions united, leaning more toward conservatism, hold forty-two seats, but there can often be certain interest conflicts between factions. Consequently, it is rare for those forty-two seats to vote unanimously on a single viewpoint.

This usually leads to some dispersion, making their influence even slightly less than those thirty-five seats of the Northern Territory.

As for the remaining twenty-three seats, they belong to the third-party forces huddling together, although in most cases their interests do not align well, with voting even more dispersed, they become the target for both factions to win over.

Due to the restriction that a Parliament resolution must have fifty-one votes in favor, neither reformists nor conservatives can achieve enough support to pass a proposal solely on their own.

Both sides must win over the middle factions to gather enough votes to pass their proposals.

Compared to the previous Noble Council and elected parliament, this is certainly a significant progress; at the very least, if Perfikot warned the Parliament about a looming apocalyptic crisis as she did years ago, she wouldn't be mocked again.

All these developments undoubtedly make Perfikot feel very satisfied, rewarding her efforts in secretly pushing for the formation of all this.

The reason for saying this is that, besides the thirty-five seats controlled by the Northern Territory and dominions, Perfikot can influence at least ten more seats.

This part includes Empire native merchants and some middle-class nobles entangled with Perfikot's interests, having had ongoing exchanges with her even before migrating to the Northern Territory, consistently supporting her, albeit not shown publicly.

These people now join the Conservative Party, controlling six seats within it.

Among the third-party forces, Perfikot can influence four seats, coming from the military and the Assassin Brotherhood.

The relationship between Perfikot and the military needs no explanation, and the Assassin Brotherhood represents some emerging bourgeoisie's political demands. Through partnering with Perfikot, they gained foothold in the political arena.

Literally a foothold, controlling one parliamentary seat.

In other words, if Perfikot truly wanted to, she could have more than forty percent of the seats in Parliament vote according to her will.

To veto her will, the Conservative Party would need virtually all third-party seats to fully support them, while ensuring internal consensus.

If Perfikot wants to pass a resolution, she only needs to appropriately win some favor to easily push through her desired proposal.

This means Perfikot can now directly manipulate the Parliament to operate according to her will, indirectly controlling the country.

However, for Perfikot, this actually means very little.

This is why she could create an atmosphere of balance between the Conservative Party and Reform Party, avoiding political dominance.

She even has no intention to interfere with the Prime Minister election results, planning to let Wellington and Kallen compete with Eldest Princess Annie on their own merits, without intervening in vote results.

After all she's done, if she still can't be elected... then maybe it's better not to be elected.

Moreover, compared to the Prime Minister election, Perfikot is more concerned and interested in the upcoming cold season.

Although currently the Northern Territory relies on the Energy Tower, underground shelter, and heating field to manage life in the post-apocalyptic winter, even most people consider it just a mild winter.

But in reality, the temperature outside heating fields and building protection has already dropped below minus sixty degrees.

This is an extremely terrifying number; in such an environment, the water vapor in one's breath freezes instantly, and without sufficient warmth, one could freeze in a short time, even to death.

Many metals become brittle at this temperature, losing their original toughness, becoming dangerous.

If temperature continuously drops, even carbon dioxide in the air will solidify into dry ice, resulting in the spectacle of carbon dioxide snow falling from the sky.

As the cold season arrives, and the environmental temperature continues to drop, such a spectacle may indeed materialize.

Compared to the Prime Minister election, Perfikot is more focused on whether the Northern Territory's people can cope with such extreme cold.