Prime Minister of Terra Mariana
Template:InfoboxThe Prime Minister is an elective position of the government of Terra Mariana and its holder currently being emmattaaron. The term of a Prime Minister lasts 504 hours (3 weeks) and the candidates can be re-elected for a maximum of 2 consecutive terms. The current end of a Prime Minister's term is set at 17:00 UTC of the day of the end of the term. As stated in the Terra Mariana Constitution, the Prime Minister has half the power of the King and able to manage the ministries, the bureaus and the departments of the government. His main duty though is to assign or reassign the ministries of the Ministers - more well-known as the Royal Councillors.
Electoral Process
The process starts 168 hours before the end of the current Prime Minister's term.
Candidature
The Royal Councillors that want to candidate to the election have 24 hours to let the King know. In order for a candidate to take part to the election, he has to be accepted by the King.
Campaigning
The campaigning process lasts 96 hours and starst right after the candidature phase. The candidates get a personal space where to post ideas and projects they intend to follow during their term. This process is normally fulfilled by using electoral posters. Every citizen can ask questions to the candidates on the discussion channel.
Voting
The voting process lasts 24 hours, matching the last 24 hours of the current Prime Minister's term. All citizens of Terra Mariana, as well as the Mayors and Royal Councillors, need to vote for the contestor they think suits the job the best. This is the last phase and whithin an hour after the end of the voting the new Prime Minister is announced.
History
The Prime Minister position has been introduced to the Terra Mariana Constitution on the 25th March 2020 amendment, during the reign of King Egga_. Here's the full history of all Terra Mariana Prime Ministers:
| N. | Picture | Name | Term | Won against |
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| 1 | nicosecci |
(Anticipated end for becoming king) |
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| 2 | emmettaaron |
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| 3 | ondrag1 |
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(No other candidates) | |
| 4 | eke223 |
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| 5 | eke223 | 26th June 2020
17th July 2020 |
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| 6 | jezyk_gogovp | 17th July 2020
7th August 2020 |
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| 7 | eke223 | 7th August 2020
28th August 2020 |
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| 8 | eke223 | 28th August 2020
18th September 2020 |
(No other candidates) | |
| 9 | Alan_Lime | 18th September 2020
9th October 2020 |
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| 10 | eke223 | 9th October 2020
at least 28th October 2020 |
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| 11 | emmettaaron | after 28th October 2020
Present |
7th Prime Minister election
Candidates
In this election started eke223 for fifth time and second for emmettaaron.
He posted nothing
He posted two posters. On the bottom of screen on blue background text and in right bottom corner his skin with "Emmet7thPM" on up side of poster he posted image and text about it.
Discussion
No serious discussion was taken.
Election
Election started on 6th August at 17:00 UTC. eke223 started with lead. Outcome during all election was small but finally eke223 won.
6th Prime Minister election
Candidates
In this election started jezyk_gogovp and Galaxy7980 the youngiest RC in Terra Mariana. It was third jezyk's election and first Galaxy7980 election.
His posters were copied from 4th Election.
He only wrote text: "Vote for me or for jezyk_gogovp, I don't care."
Discussion
There were no big discussions in the channel, only some questions.
Election
Election started on 16th July 2020 at 17:00 UTC. From first moments jezyk_gogovp started with lead and won.
5th Prime Minister election
Candidates
In this election started eke223, jezyk_gogovp and Alan_Lime. It was second election of jezyk_gogovp, fourth eke223 election and second Alan_Lime election. Alan resigned few days before election.
His posters contained screenshot with eke223 skin and text: "Vote for eke223" in right bottom corner, item in left up corner and text in rigth up corner.
His poster contained screenshot with white text, and in left bottom corner text "#MakeTerraMarianaGreatAgain" and jezyk's head.
Alan made two posters and wrote three messenges with his program. He proposed better, bigger and stronger TM
Discussion
Discussion was about eke223 term and programs.
Election
Election started on 25th June 2020 on 5PM UTC. jezyk_gogovp started with lead but after few hours eke223 passed and won election.
4th Prime Minister election
Candidates
In the latest election - as of writing this - eke223's competed against jezyk_gogovp, the 2nd newest Royal Councillor. Only eke223 campaigned in a previous election, 3 out of 4 in fact.
eke223
His posters were taken from the previous elections. No new ideas have been added to his list.
jezyk_gogovp
He created 8 posters. His ideas were: distribution of food, a place where everyone can create mapart, distribution of livestock, reforms to the army, distribution of materials for the better of CTM, the creation of a marketplace, a donation to preserve historic landmarks, and his will to make TM a better place. His posters were also following a simple pattern - a screenshot taken with shaders with a white text written on top of it. In the lower left hand corner, there is a text saying "Vote for #jezyk2020" with his head right next to it.
Discussion
There were no big discussions in the channel, only some questions.
Election
The election started on the 4th of June at 17:00 UTC.
jezyk_gogovp had a huge lead in the first few hours, leading 4-5 votes ahead. But soon enough, eke223 catched up with many votes for jezyk to catch up. As the night passed, eke223 won the election.
3rd Prime Minister election
Candidates
In this election ondrag1 was the only candidate. No electoral posters have been made, but only some representatives expressions and sentences. No discussion took place in the official election channel.
Discussion
In the discussion channel, the public only asked some general questions. Not in the discussion channel, but in the general nation text channel, people were only slightly talking about ondrag1's programme. They were also joking about the election as the election isn't fun and exciting. Additionally, they were thinking about if they rigged the election by either not voting or turning in invalid votes, so ondrag1 wouldn't get any votes.
Election
The election took place because the constitution requires at least 10% of citizens to vote for a candidate in order for him to win. The percentage was reached less than 12 hours after the start of the election. Some voters decided to cast invalid votes as a joke and as a form of protest. At 17:15 UTC the official result of the election was announced with the final results being:
2nd Prime Minister election
This has been the first Prime Minister election with live updated number of votes during the voting session.
Candidates
In this election, the contestors were: Alan_Lime, eke223, emmettaaron and ondrag1. All of those candidates did not participate in the last election except for eke223. None of those candidates were former Prime Ministers. All of the candidates were in the Royal Council. The jobs can be seen in Terra Mariana under "Government".
Alan_Lime
Alan_Lime made a total of 6 campaigning posters, with all of them, except one, containing some kind of propaganda. All of his posters were made as a joke, except one, which is serious, but has many grammatical errors in it. His programmes were: Better internal management, unification of the Baltics, material distribution, financial support and town funding.
eke223
eke223 made a total of 6 campaigning posters, with all of them having the same scheme; the same blue/redish backround and his skin in the lower left hand corner with a text in front of it saying: Vote for eke223. He had some kind of block or item in the middle of the poster to make it more appealing. His programmes were: Army reforms, more jobs, population rise, public farms, shopping district in Hiiumaa and a public villager trading hall for the entire Terra Mariana population.
emmettaaron
emmettaaron made a total 6 campaigning posters, with all of them having the same scheme: the same different-coloured triangle in the upper right hand corner with some kind of text announcing the programme of the poster and at the bottom a text saying: Vote for emmettaaron! In every poster, there is some kind of symbol or block in the middle with text. His programmes were: town funding, material distribution, declaring and protecting national landmarks, more appealing CTM tunnels, funding for better structures and bringing back the Flora and Fauna in Terra Mariana.
ondrag1
ondrag1 made a total of 6 campaigning poster, with all of them having a hypothetical quote of someone complaining and a text below of it saying a solution for this problem. All of them have a low-resolution backround and different coloured text, with most of them not fitting in with the backrounds. The texts have many grammatical errors. His programmes were: ideas, decision making, more power, food distribution, refunding of armour in battles and one poster saying that he would try his best to make the things happen even if he isn't becoming the Prime Minister. He also said that peace is the key.
Discussion
There were multiple discussions about the Prime Minister election, like eleborating on someone's posters and some memes too. There were heavy discussions between eke223 and emmettaaron. Mostly about their posters and how they want to implement their ideas in the nation. According to some the 'most thrilling election ever'.
Election
The election started at 17:00 UTC on the 23rd of April 2020.
Headstart
eke223 had a huge lead because he had been inviting many citizens to his town, Reval, to vote for him in the election. emmettaaron thought this was pretty unfair since he only uses his citizens for the votes and for nothing else. He could have done the same thing, but he didn't. He had a huge lead of 6 votes.
Next day
As the next day arrived, eke223 had somewhere around 10 votes. Whereas Alan_Lime had 2, emmettaaron 4 and ondrag1 1 vote. After some convincing and propaganda spreading, emmettaaron gained around 6 more votes, eke223 2 more, Alan_Lime 1 more and ondrag1 2 more votes. After many hours of back and forth, the counter stopped at:
eke223 would have won if the law 1.2b of the Terra Mariana Constitution didn't forbid this. Since there was only a 5% difference between eke223's and emmettaaron's votes, the Supreme Court decided who to vote as the Prime Minister within an hour. The Royal Councillors Alan_Lime, Pickled_Cheetos and TommyJ2 decided emmettaaron should be the 2nd Prime Minister. At 18:00 UTC on the 24th of April emmettaaron gained the role of Prime Minister in the government.
1st Prime Minister election
Candidates
This was the first Terra Mariana Prime Minister election. The only candidates were the two Royal Councillors -nicosecci and eke223.
eke223
His campaign was made up of 3 posters. The ideas brought up by the candidate were changing the flag of Hiiumaa, speeding up the CTM lines by 60% and the creation of a national shopping district. The design followed a simple pattern - A simplistic backround with warm and cold colours shaped in triangles. A text is added onto it describing his standpoint, as well as a headline. In the lower right hand corner, there is a text saying "Vote for eke223" on every poster.
nicosecci
His campaign was made up of 3 posters. The ideas brought up by the candidate were the creation of a free Cepelin distribution for the citizens, the cure of historical buildings and artifacts and the creation of a fund for the creation of buildings in the nation. The posters followed a more complex pattern than eke's - a blurred screenshot as the backround with a dotted line surrounding it. In the lower left hand corner, a text saying "Vote for Nicosecci" can be spotted. Most importantly, a small text concerning his ideas can be seen with a larger quote by him regarding it. In the lower right hand corner, a logo with some text can be viewed.
Discussion
The main discussion that took place was about the change of Hiiumaa's flag, which was strongly criticized. nicosecci was strongly opposing that decision as well. There were rather long discussions about nicosecci's
and eke223's ideas.
Election
The election started on the 3rd April 2020 at 12:00 UTC and lasted 24 hours. The results were announced 4 minutes after the end of the polls, resulting in 8 votes for eke223 and 11 votes for nicosecci with a voting turnout of 37%.