Chapter 406: Preparing for the General Election

Letting the Zheng family recover Dayuan Island, so as to successfully avoid a direct conflict between Australia and the Netherlands, is an excellent plan, once proposed, it has been agreed by many people, after all, the Dutch are currently responsible for half of the market for Australia's maritime transportation.

Without the Dutch ship transportation, the impact on the domestic economy can be imagined, the production of products will be overstocked in the warehouse and cannot be sold, to the factory virtually bring costs up, and more importantly, the Australian economy is mainly dependent on exports.

If the export industry is hit hard, the entire Australian economy will at least fall into a state of paralysis, relying on domestic consumption that the market simply cannot support the current number of products produced by the entire Australian Nissan.

So the best way to do it with the Dutch is to be friendly for the next five years, and Australia can keep England and Spain at bay, but never clash with them again.

Both radicals and conservatives were very supportive of the proposal submitted by centrists, and in 1643, the next general election was still a year away.

Zhou Aiguo has made it clear that he will not be re-elected after this term, from the original chairman of the executive committee to the current president, Zhou Aiguo has been the supreme leader of this group of people for more than three years, although the general election is held every four years, from the founding of the People's Republic of China to next year has not yet been four years, but because of the special environment at the time of the first general election, so next year is the time for another general election in Australia.

For Zhou Aiguo not to hold the presidency, the conservatives are still retained, although many times they cannot agree with the ideas put forward by Zhou Aiguo, but after all, they are people in a faction, as long as he is on it, he can bring a lot of benefits to the faction.

In order to retain Zhou Aiguo's re-election, it is rare to be united within the conservatives, but Zhou Aiguo seems to have lost confidence in his faction, and he is determined to unload the burden.

In fact, Zhou Aiguo's resignation was not completely because he was disheartened. But in order for Australia to have a better path to development in the future, he must step back.

Australia has always pursued a conservative policy, and it has been in a passive zone in terms of external expansion, and it has always been promoted by other forces to expand.

According to Zhou Aiguo's discussions with several confidants, the conclusion is that the continuation of Australia's current conservative policy will not bring too many practical benefits, and they must change in the face of increasingly chaotic changes in the current situation.

Zhou Aiguo will not be able to change anything in this position, but will be hampered by conservative policies from internal factions and will not be able to implement some policies.

Take the aid plan for Daming as an example. Originally, there was no controversy about this, but now it is different, Australia continues to grow and develop, and conservatives have doubts about helping the former mother country, and believe that it should follow the development of history.

As soon as this argument was put forward, it was immediately opposed by the radicals, and the Ming Dynasty is Australia's main market in the future, once a unified and closed continent appears, what it means for Australia, anyone can think.

Don't say anything, you can open its country with a ship cannon. Didn't the British do that back then, so have you ever thought about what kind of impression you would leave in the eyes of those people?

What is the difference between this and the aggressor, the radicals objected on the spot to the words of the conservative parliamentarian.

Currently in Australia, since Zhou Aiguo proposed not to hold the presidency. Radicals and conservatives have been making their own arrangements for the position.

The president is nominally the supreme leader of a country, and he not only has direct participation in any decision-making in the country, but also has the right to veto bills in Congress.

In the face of such a position, it is absolutely impossible for the two factions not to fight for it. And most everyone knows the benefits it will bring to themselves.

At present, there is some embarrassment within the conservatives that they do not have a successor who can compare his qualifications and age with Zhou Aiguo, so they very much hope that Zhou Aiguo will continue to serve a second term, at least four years later. There will be no such embarrassing situation in terms of age.

Compared with their embarrassment, there are many more people to choose from within the radicals, and Huang Qishui, who is currently the director of the National Department of Science and Technology, is the most popular candidate.

Sometimes that old saying is still very true, if there is an old man in the family, there is a treasure. Huang Qishui's qualifications and age are very suitable, and the most important thing is that he has a deep affection for that homeland.

So the radicals have already had a detailed discussion with him, and Huang Lao also agreed, and the past few years of hardship have also made him very different from before, at least he began to pay attention to the future of this country.

Huang Lao has a good chance of success in being selected as his successor, he is one of the most popular people outside of Zhou Aiguo, in addition to being close to the common people, he can call each of them by name, perhaps this has something to do with the reason why he served as a teacher in his early years.

Good popularity means that he has a better chance of becoming president, which is one of the reasons why Huang Fu recommended him, not because his age and qualifications are just right.

With such a premise, it is a very rare opportunity for the radicals to compete in next year's general election, as long as Huang Lao is successfully elected, and with the seats he says he occupies in the National Assembly, it will not be a problem for the radicals to pass a series of bills.

While supporting Huang Lao internally, Huang Fu also made efforts externally, saying that the conservatives support Huang Lao and promised not to touch the existing interests of the conservatives in the next four years, while also promising to make concessions in some important positions.

In fact, there is no opinion within the centrist about Huang Lao taking over the highest position, after all, he wants to fight for that position, and none of the centrists are of the right age, not to mention that they have always not competed for power, but only operate in their own one-third of an acre.

However, this does not represent the future, and when Zhao Shijie, Liu Yun and others are older, they will not fight for that position, after all, everyone has a presidential dream in their hearts.

Especially Xiao Baitu, otherwise he would not have joined the centrist faction to return to China, and finally went to serve as mayor, just to accumulate qualifications and prepare for the future.

Although the centrists should support the radicals in the position of president, the premise is that the important department of the Ministry of Foreign Trade must be in their hands, especially the position of vice minister that is currently vacant, and in order to show their sincerity in cooperation, the radicals first agreed to support Zhang Tianwen for the post of vice minister in this matter. (To be continued......)