(02-07-2017, 03:35 PM)Belschaft Wrote: And if there had been a full election campaign, with debates and discussions, with candidates putting forward their ideas and explaining their credentials, and at the end of that process APC had sat down and agreed that they liked the TIL candidate best and TIL had sat down and agreed they liked the APC candidate best... yeah, that would be fine. That would be how the system is meant to work.

But that didn't happen. The APC and TIL leaders met in secret at the start of elections, and agreed that TIL could pick who was MoFA and APC could pick who was MoMA. That's electioneering, plain and simple.

I have to agree with Bel's point here. It's quite simple to me.
If the agreement happened AFTER campaigns were posted and reviewed, it would have made sense. But it didn't.
It happened before campaigns could be posted, questions could be asked, and discussions had.

I don't have any issues with parties in TSP, at least not until this happened. But even still, we can prevent the slippery slope effect here and have an honest and polite discussion about how we want these types of situations to be handled in the future, to avoid this being the straw that broke the camel's back so early on in the Political Party Era.