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[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

If anyone should be excluded, it's the regional parties, which are basically just vanity projects and/or memes and always have been. (I say this as the proud founder and president of Fianna Frémont.)

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

If anyone should be excluded, it's the regional parties, which are basically just vanity projects and/or memes and always have been. (I say this as the proud founder and president of Fianna Frémont.)

I remember after the NPC elections started, a lot of people started to found regional parties and have their own NPC election thread before they realized that they could ally with their national parties.

You know you just made my point for me, right?

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

When was the last time before me that an independent was elected to Parliament?

Funnily I now feel a sort of obligation to let my more conservative side be prominent to give a greater veneer of credibility to this Parliament... but I don't think I will actually do that.

Independents have been a pretty regular presence in parliament since it's inception; as Tack notes, Siren has served as an independent MFP since winning her by-election; before her, ASV served as an independent for several terms. Before him, Devout Centrist was an the last independent MFP chosen in a general election. So far YE is the only first minister to be elected without a federal party affiliation.