Chapter 196 - 84. Post-event Handling
The sunlight outside was just right, not too hot—the rare good weather that Saint Nali had seen only a few times in recent days.
On ordinary days, this kind of weather is perfect for Nali families to compete for a chance to travel out. Even the poorer workers who don’t have the time to go out and have fun would cook extra food for dinner to celebrate, given that Saint Nali is all too fond of rain.
But today, members of the New Party were clearly not in such high spirits.
The current leader of the New Party was an elderly gentleman named Madillon. Before the early days of exploration, he owned several workshops in Nali and established the Nali Workshops Organization—an alliance of manual workshops that expanded to include other industries and eventually became the predecessor to the Nali Chamber of Commerce.
Following the parliamentary reform, with the funding of the Nali Exploration Company and the recommendation of the Chamber members, he founded a whole new political party—the Exploration Party.
But back then, in the face of the powerful Griffin Party, his Exploration Party was just like any other minor opposition party—without much status.
That was until legendary pioneer Captain Blake returned to the Nali people with a ship full of treasure. Seizing the Nali people’s desire for wealth and external exploration, they introduced a bunch of policies favorable to the citizens for commerce and trade, winning a high number of votes almost instantly.
With the Nali Exploration Company’s ever-growing size, both in terms of funds and public support, they would quickly outperform other small parties, eventually defeating the tradition-oriented Griffin Party in the election a few years ago, thus completely taking control of the Nali political arena.