Chapter 164 The Current Situation of the Labor Party
Fortunately, the House of Lords is still very strict in reviewing applications for the establishment of political parties, and these parties, which are mostly playful in nature, basically fail.
As of the Australian cabinet government election, a total of seven legal political parties have been established in Australia, including the Australian Labor Party, the oldest political party in Australia.
Yes, even the Australian Labor Party, which has already been established, must be reviewed by the House of Lords and confirmed to be legal before it can recruit members openly.
Although this kind of review system has promoted the flourishing of Australian political parties, it has actually greatly restricted the real rights of political parties, allowing the Australian government, especially Arthur, to effectively take political parties into its own hands.
The current political parties in Australia include the Australian Labor Party, the National Party, the Democratic Party, the Liberal Party, the Independent Party, the Endeavor Party and the Country Party.
There are four parties that have members of the House of Commons, including the Australian Labor Party, which has a total of 13 members of the House of Commons, accounting for less than 7% of the total seats in the House of Commons.
The Australian National Party is slightly ahead of Labor, with a total of 14 members joining the House of Commons, accounting for 7% of the total seats in the House of Commons.
The Independent Party has seventeen members joining the House of Commons, accounting for less than nine per cent of the total seats in the House of Commons.
The country party that occupies the most seats in the House of Commons is the country party with an unremarkable name. This is a party whose platform and goals are to take into account the rural environment and relieve the rural population.
Because the Country Party mainly represents low-income groups represented by the rural population, this is why the Country Party is popular in Australia.
There are still many low-income people in Australia, which is what Arthur and the Australian government are striving for.
The Country Party has a total of 23 members of the House of Commons, accounting for 12% of the members of the House of Commons.
Judging from the current situation, one-third of the members of the House of Commons have joined the party, and this proportion is still increasing.
This is also to be expected. After all, a party is a coalition of politicians, which in many aspects has many advantages over fighting alone.
As parties have legal status in Australia, it is foreseeable that most of the members of the House of Commons will join various parties in the future, creating partisanship among Australian political circles.
The formation of parties is inevitable, not to mention that major European countries already have a variety of parties, and these parties have even achieved considerable political advantages.
Needless to say, for a republic like France, the power of parties and capitalists is unimaginable, and they can even control and promote a country.
Even in a monarchy like the British Empire, the power of parties is very huge. A political party with an advantage in elections can form a government. However, in the UK, a constitutional monarchy, the power of the government is limited to the fact that the monarch does not have full prestige. greater than the rights of the monarch.
Now Europe is the brightest pearl in the world, and various European institutions and systems will be brought to the world by Europeans.
For Europeans, who are swept by the trend of liberalism and democracy, they are more acceptable to a more democratic system than a monarchy.
If Australia does not recognize the legality of political parties and does not grant certain political rights to political parties, it will inevitably make Europeans think that Australia has a certain color of authoritarianism.
In order to strengthen Australia's immigration attractiveness, the legitimacy of political parties is also inevitable.
However, Australia is different from European countries in that the core of Australia's autocratic monarchy has been completely established, and relying on military power and Arthur's prestige among the people is getting stronger and stronger.
At least during Arthur's reign, no domestic force could overthrow Arthur's rule in Australia. This is the power of a monarch who controls military power and the hearts of the people.
Australian political parties may gain a majority of seats in the House of Commons, and may even use the majority of seats in the House of Commons to give some members the possibility of moving to the cabinet. What is unique about the Australian system is that every position in cabinet government, including the Prime Minister, is subject to election rather than being appointed by the person who holds the Prime Minister's office.
Although doing so will reduce the tacit understanding and unity of the cabinet government, it is completely unnecessary in an authoritarian country.
This also determines that it is very difficult for a political party to completely control or even control most of the cabinet seats. Unless it has very suitable and capable candidates for each position, like political parties in other countries, it will completely control the basics of cabinet government. impossible.
This also means that Australian political parties will not gain great power, and there will be competitors even in cabinet governments.
This was also Arthur's means of checking and balancing, transforming the original possible contradiction between the government and the royal power into a contradiction between political parties.
If political parties want to gain greater advantages in government and elections, they must rely on the stable royal power in Australia.
Arthur, who represents the royal power, can hide behind the scenes and remove himself from the power struggle, but he can also firmly control the political parties in the power whirlpool.
For more than two months, news about the establishment of various political parties and news about members of the House of Commons joining a certain political party have been continuously published in Australia's two most important newspapers, the Australian Daily and the Victoria Newspaper. This can also reflect the current stage. There is a sudden and rapid trend of political parties in Australia.
As the oldest party in Australia, the Australian Labor Party does not have a big advantage in the two-month battle for members. It is even the smallest among the four parties that currently have members of the House of Commons.
In fact, this is no wonder the Australian Labor Party. The original goal of the Labor Party was to promote the union between Australia's six colonies and at least establish a unified federal government to strengthen exchanges between the colonies. It also safeguarded the interests of the trade unions.
But with the establishment of the united Principality of Australia, this goal of the Australian Labor Party was automatically fulfilled.
In addition, the Principality of Australia does not recognize the legitimacy of political parties, and the Duke of Australia, Arthur, and the Australian government are highly recognized by Australians, which also makes Australians less enthusiastic about joining political parties.
During this time, the Australian Labor Party changed its platform to safeguard the interests of Australian workers and unite trade unions and workers.
But unexpectedly, the new Principality of Australia and its government also attached great importance to the interests of workers. On the premise of developing industry, the interests of workers were also well protected. This made the Australian Labor Party so redundant.
If this was a chaotic country where the interests of large numbers of workers were not protected, perhaps the Australian Labor Party would be popular.
However, the new Principality of Australia has a very stable order. It has invested a lot of money to build major development projects such as industry, education, medical care, people's livelihood, economy, science and technology, and has fully protected the interests of Australians participating in these projects.
The interests of Australian workers have been very well protected, and the ten-hour work system has been resolutely implemented. For workers, this is already a paradise in their imagination.
In addition to the fact that current wages are not too high, Australian workers are currently better off than European workers.
Under such a premise, Australian workers will naturally not be too enthusiastic about political parties. They are currently more interested in working hard and earning more wages to support their families.
With both platforms and goals being realized by the Australian government, the Australian Labor Party lost its goal for a while.
This was originally Australia's largest political party in history, but now it is at a loss.
If some members of the House of Commons with higher political dreams were not optimistic about the name of the Labor Party, Australia's earliest political party, I am afraid that the Labor Party's popularity in Australia would be even lower.
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