1731 Sanaman general election
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The 1731 Sanaman general election took place on 12.X.1731, to elect two of three houses of the Lhusan Nasyonal. About a month before the election, the National Judex banned the Party of Democratic Humanism due to its involvement in the 1731 Cisamarrese insurrection. Its leader, Darius Hosseini, had already defected to the Benacian Union, and with several center-right and right wing parties having merged into the party after the 1727 election, the campaign was blindsided by the ruling. With the deadline for registering parties and candidates having already passed, all candidates for the Humanists were inelligible for election on the party ticket overnight. This left the Agrarian League, Citizens United and the Democratic Nazarene Union on the political right, with only the first party with any reasonable chance of winning seats. Both the government and the National Judex were heavily criticised by the right, calling the banning of the PDH a "political hitjob". Qukalsim Toti Lampa fired back saying that it should be self-evident that parties engaging in insurrection should not be allowed to participate in elections. The majoritarian electoral system prevented several minor parties from getting into the House of People's Delegates.
Aftermath
The controversies surrounding the election forced Qukalsim Lampa to address the shortcomings of the political system. With his massive supermajority, he pledged to reform Sanaman democracy by changing to proportional voting and reducing the Lhusan Nasyonal to a bicameral parliament by removing the House of Councillors and making the Council of People's Republics directly elected as well. A more controversial proposal was to create a supervisory council, to provide a more long-term vision and agenda for the governance of the country.
