Politics in Muluwheyo (Muluwheyo, The African dream that could have been....)

This is going to be a short 3 page article. The POD is that colonial rule worked in part of Africa. What would have a nation been like if the British Empire (and maybe the French Empire as well) had succeeded in their cultural gaols and also held out much longer, like say until 1972...

Political parties
Liberal Democratic and Federal Liberal are mostly devided over the FL's suppoert for preoptional representation and legalising Canabis. the Socialist party is opposed to the New Socialist Party's 'Blairite' policies.

The national parliament
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The country got self-rule in 1966 and independence in 1972.

Voting system
It uses the first past the post system to elect a 44 strong parliament, 10 strong county councils and a preseident for 4 years. Polling is noted for being exceptionally free and fair. Election related violence is rare apart from during the brief military Junta of the 1990s. It uses the first past the post system and is open to all citizens over the age of 18.

Foreign relations
Political and ecanomic relations with the UK have always been close, especialy under James Calaghan and John Major, the latter visiting the enclave for a week in 1993. Muluwheyo is a member of the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa (OHADA).


 * Top allies- UK, Namibia, Botswans, S. Africa, Libya's new NTC regime, Greece and Barbados.
 * Top enemies- Germany, Somali pirates, Cololnel Gadaffie's old Libyan regime and Zimbabwe.