The SRM Congress members are pointing fingers at National Unionists and Jim Rome’s Jungle Party for failing to deliver a right-wing coalition in the 52nd Congress election. “If the National Union and Jungle had doubled their seat count, to 40 and 20 seats respectively, along with most of the minor parties the Patria First movement could have held off the Social Democrats, Greens and Chakras… but no, they failed to deliver and Patria is stuck with four more years of so-called progress with a purpose, four more years of discredited leftist rabble”. Of course, the SRM could have done better itself, as its own pollsters projected at least 108 seats. They won 90 seats, but in Patria’s everyone-into-the-pool proliferation of parties, that translated into only about 27% of the popular vote.
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| All bark, no bite. NU won only one more seat than in 2018. |
Holding a mediocre 22 seats (about 6.6% of popular vote), the National Union won only a single seat more than in 2018, while the Jungle Party lost one seat, down to 10 members from 11 in the 51st Congress. The biggest winner in the 52nd Congress-elect is the Chakra Party. They won 76 seats – 43 more than in 2018 – and succeeded in scooping up a large number of Amrita Party supporters. Given Patria’s multi-party mish-mash, getting about 23% of popular vote is a big win for the Chakras.
The old 51st Congress (4·LI 2021-22)
reconvened for the traditional post-election Lame Duck Session
that will continue until a day or two before Inauguration Day and will include Smack-Off XXVIII on
June 24, in which the Jungle Party will select the ten members of its caucus
(broadcast live on PMBC-1152). The first item on the order paper is to certify
the returns of the recent election, as provided by the returning officers of
the 13 Precincts and the
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| SRM thought they won, until they didn't. |
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