Don’t raise unruly people in extreme cold weather

Chapter 637: Manipulating the Political Arena
After Princess Anne returned and ran as a candidate for Prime Minister, the major non-Northern forces began to quickly unite.

They formed a similar alliance, expressing their own political demands and interests by supporting Princess Anne's candidacy, and soon compromised with each other to come up with a policy program that represented their own interests.

The reason for saying this is that Perfectoct saw that the policy platform that Princess Anne used for her election campaign and the political propositions she put forward were full of products of various interest compromises.

Perfect didn't hate the result; at least in her opinion, it was progress.

At least it's an improvement for Princess Anne.

Although she did not clearly put forward her political views, at least as a candidate for prime minister, she integrated the opinions of many different factions.

Although this idea itself implies uniting to fight against the northern forces, it is not easy to truly align the interests of so many factions to face the outside world.

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

This also means that Princess Anne has finally begun to truly play her political role as a member of the royal family, rather than playing the role of an insignificant mascot.

As a result, three interest groups have now formed in the North, namely the alliance between the North and the Dominion, the coalition of factions opposed to the North, and a third-party force where other small factions huddle together for warmth.

In a sense, this can be regarded as the prototype of the three political parties.

In the Victorian Empire, due to the limitations and influence of the political system and past political institutions, political parties did not appear on the historical stage.

Now, with the implementation of the National Assembly system and the Prime Minister's Cabinet system, political parties have gradually begun to take shape in this way and have begun to enter the historical stage.

Currently in the National Assembly, out of the 100 seats, the alliance of the North and the Dominions, as the party that wants to promote reform, holds 35 seats. Because the interests of both sides are basically the same, the votes of these 35 seats can basically be unanimous.

The factions with relatively conservative political tendencies jointly hold 42 seats, but there are often certain differences in interests between the factions. Therefore, it is rare for the 42 seats to unanimously vote on a certain point of view.

There is usually some dispersion, resulting in the final influence being even slightly less than that of the thirty-five seats in the North.

As for the remaining 23 seats, they are held by third parties that are banding together for warmth. Although in most cases their interests are not consistent and the votes are more dispersed, this also makes them the target of competition between the two factions.

Restricted by the requirement that 51 seats must be in favor of a resolution in Parliament, neither the Reform Party nor the Conservative Party can gain enough support in Parliament to pass a bill on their own.

Both of them must win over the centrist faction in order to get enough votes to pass the bills they advocate.

This is certainly a great improvement compared to the previous aristocratic parliament and elected parliament. At least if Perfectoct still warns the parliament of the impending doomsday crisis as he did a few years ago, he will not be laughed at anymore.

All this undoubtedly made Perfecto very satisfied, and it was worth it for her to secretly push for all this to take shape.

The reason for this is that in addition to the thirty-five seats held by the North and the Dominions, Perfect can influence at least ten seats.

Some of them are local merchants and middle-class nobles who have interests in Perfect, and have always had interests in Perfect before moving to the North. They have always been Perfect's supporters, but they have not shown it on the surface. These people have now joined the Conservative Party and control the six seats held by the Conservative Party.

Among the third parties, Perfect can also influence four seats, which come from the military and the Assassin Brotherhood.

There is no need to explain much about the relationship between Perfectok and the military, and the Assassin Brotherhood itself represents the political demands of a part of the emerging bourgeoisie. After cooperating with Perfectok, they also have a place in the political arena.

Literally a seat at the table, they control a seat in parliament.

In other words, if Perfecto really wanted to, she could at least make more than 40% of the seats in parliament vote according to her will.

If the Conservatives want to veto her will, they must get the full support of almost all third-party seats, and they must also be unanimous among themselves.

If Perfect wants to pass a resolution, he can directly pass the resolution he wants as long as he makes some appropriate attempts to win over others.

In other words, Perfect can now directly manipulate the parliament to operate according to her will and indirectly control the country.

But for Perfect, this doesn't really mean much.

That is why she was able to create an atmosphere and situation in which the Conservative Party and the Reform Party were evenly matched, thus avoiding political dominance by one party.

She even had no intention of interfering with the outcome of the prime minister election. Instead, she planned to let Wellington and Karen compete with Princess Anne based on their own abilities and had no intention of interfering with the voting results.

After all, she has done so much, if she is not elected... it is better not to be elected.

On the other hand, Perfect is more concerned about the upcoming cold season than the prime ministerial election.

Although the North is currently relying on energy towers, underground shelters and heating plants, overall life is still manageable in the cold winter of the end of the world, and most people even think that this can only be considered a warm winter.

But in fact, in the real outdoors, away from the heating field and building protection, the ambient temperature has dropped below minus sixty degrees Celsius.

This is a very scary number. In such an environment, the water vapor in the gas exhaled by people will freeze instantly. If there are not enough warming measures, people will get frostbite or even freeze to death in a very short time.

Many metals will also become brittle at this temperature, lose their original toughness and become dangerous.

If the temperature continues to drop, even the carbon dioxide in the air will solidify into dry ice, and then the strange sight of carbon dioxide snow falling from the sky will appear.

And now, with the arrival of the original winter and now the cold season, the continued drop in ambient temperature will cause such a scene to really come true.

Compared with the prime minister election, Perfect was more concerned about whether the people in the north could cope with such extreme cold.

(End of this chapter)