Jimmy likely to face an easy run to Consul

Thoughts are starting to turn to this year's Consul elections to replace MBH at the end of the year. It is likely that the Liberal Party candidate (which is almost certainly to be Jimmy) will have a free ride to electoral success. Veritas = Truth has now been abandoned by MBH and Imperial Order are not standing this year in return for the Liberal's abstention last year.

There are dozens of smaller parties but these will struggle to gain more than a handful of votes. Parties on the fringe tend to be either ultra-nationalist or fascist parties like the "Death To All Aliens Party" or obscure one-issue parties like the Yavilanda Better Garbage Collection Party.

None of these parties are likely to get the threshold to face Jimmy in the run-off even if they do get second place. That threshold is 5% and no party other than the big 3 has so far managed to get even a tenth of that. Imperial Order and the Liberals will finally face each other next year.

One question is where the large block vote from the SS will go now that Veritas = Truth is no more. A party celebrating brutal homo-erotic fascism has been mooted by some SS officers though is unlikely to have mass appeal.