Voskian parliamentary election, 2013

On Sunday 22 December 2013, regular elections for the Voskian parliament (Bōvēa / Kuvendi / La Dieta) were held. It was the 19th election sinds the Voskian independency of 1946. Polling stations were open from 7.30 AM until 4.30 PM.

Voskian parliamentary election, 2013
22 December 2013
all 229 seats of the Voskian parliament
	1st party	2nd party	3rd party
Leader	Luçia Apavia	Başkim Arhali	Ģianniē Jakc
Party	V-ĢP	PD	MS
Before election	37	42	32
After election	63	35	26
Change	+26	-7	-6
	4th party	5th party	6th party
Leader	Lukas Kvāzd	Liōz Bazaģiuvs	Pāvus Luva
Party	MV	K-ĢP	IP'02
Before election	33	44	22
After election	24	23	21
Change	-9	-21	-1

Background

Main Article: Voskian politics

After the last elections, then incumbent prime minister Başkim Arhali managed to form a new coalition of PD (republicans), V-ĢP (liberals), MV (centre-liberals) and PA (agrarian party), despite the fact that the PD was no longer the largest party in the parliament. In early 2013, shortly after an internal government shake-up, the V-ĢP decided to leave the coalition. Although most people expected early elections, V-ĢP leader Luçia Apavia managed to form a new coalition of her party, the MV, the monarchist MS and the irtiazist IP'02, with a mandate to rule until the next regular elections.

Parties and results

Electoral system and agenda

The elections were called on 16 September 2013. The deadline for parties or individuals to register to participate in these elections, is 1 November 2013. It is possible to register as a party, without the possibility to elect individual candidates within that party, or as individual without party affiliation. The disadvantage of the latter would be, that an individual can only take one seat, so excess votes, if any, will be divided among other parties or individuals. In the political history of modern Voskia, individuals managed to gain seats like this only two times before.

There is an election threshold of 3%. It is however allowed to form electoral alliances.

Leaders and prime minister candidates

In principle, party leaders will be the candidates for the office of prime minister, if their parties manage to become the largest coalition party. Pāvus Luva (IP'02) has however announced his candidacy for the presidential elections, so his party will likely put forward another candidate prime minister. The same may apply for other party leaders.

Participating parties

The following parties have confirmed that they will register to participate in the election.

Name in Voskian	Name in English	Ideology	Leader	Seats before	Seats after	Change
Vēdzē-Ģiēnikē Pàrtiā	Liberal-Democratic Party	liberal-democratic	Luçia Apavia (f)	37	63	+26
Protàşvētij Dēmukracieş	Champions of the Republic	republican	Başkim Arhali	42	35	-7
Mōnarģisc Spundie	Monarchist Union	monarchist	Ģianniē Jakc (f)	32	26	-6
Meso Vēdzō	Centre-Liberals	centre-liberal	Lukas Kvāzd	33	24	-9
Kōdōdģē-Ģiēnikē Pàrtiā	Social-Democratic Party	socialist, socialdemocratic	Liōz Bazaģiuvs	44	23	-21
Irtiaziakē Pàrtiā ’02	Irtiazist Party '02	irtiazist (conservative)	Pāvus Luva	22	21	-1
Kōdikē Pàrtiā	Communist Party	communist	Āfrec Anģeli	9	15	+6
Pàrtiā Rupiē Ìntegracii	Party for a European Integration	Pro-European, green, left-liberal	Ģiōģia Caldaris-Tanēvs (f)		4	+4
Pàrtiā Agurkoded	Agrarian Party	moderate, agrarian, protectionist	Mazēs Pāvuşiūz	7	4	-3
Neē Kōdōdģē-Ģiēnikē Pàrtiā	New Social Democratic Party	social-democratic	Eduard Jaşari		4	+4
Spundie Socialisc Agurkoded	Union of Socialist Agrarians	socialist, agrarian, protectionist	Pjetra Tare-Rugova (f)	3	3	=
Àvrā Gīdģeş	Forum for Women	equal rights, increased democracy	Sonia Urvius (f)		3	+3
Katūvikē Enōnēa	Catholic Union	Christian moderates	Suzana Sulka (f)		3	+3
Katedrā	'Union of the Lectern'	Christian conservative	Gjergj Ndoçi		1	+1
Entikē Legā Voşkoded kē Karzgoded	National League of Vosks and Gurds	unitarian, libertarian	Kirkē Tavģuvs-Pàgēdz (f)
Ģurstiad Ģiēnişĕ ’97	Christian-Democrats '97	Christian-democrat	Ģiannis Bugus
Karzgē Pūvitikēa	Gurdian Politics	libertarian	Enkelyd Hoşi
Vēnikē-Ortudoksē Paģştōnēa	Greek-Orthodox Representation	Christian conservative	Oduakers Braçēvs
Piratiĕ	The Pirates	pirate politics	Lukas Dòdziĕvs

Electoral Alliances

Parties may join in electoral alliances in order to get in to parliament despite the 3% threshold. During the last elections, KE and Katedrā formed an alliance, but together got only 0.9% of the popular vote. The Communist Party (KP) and the Union of Socialist Agrarians (SAA) did manage to get in parliament, as did the Centre-Liberals (MV) and the Agrarian Party (PA). A few months ago it was however announced that the MV won't form a new alliance with the PA for the next elections.