Take a look at this picture.
https://imgur.com/uR4vj0B

1st power: The president will investigate another player's alignment.
2nd power: The president will investigate another player's alignment.
3rd power: The president will choose the next presidential candidate.
4th power: The president will execute another player.
5th power: The president will execute another player. The ability to veto is now permanently available from here on out.

The votes are in! The results are as follows.

1. The Greek (greeklover) - YES
2. Boss Kusu (kusumahendra) - YES
3. Mr. Scene (supplementscene) - YES
4. Basil the Lifter (lifthrasil) - YES
5. Bishop Bling (ZFR) - YES
6. Captain Dedo (dedoporno) - YES
7. General Warehall (RWarehall) - YES
8. The Count of Monte Cristigale (cristigale) - YES
9. Big Brass (Brasas) - NO
10. Chief Blotunga (blotunga) - YES

The government is approved!

https://i.imgur.com/ID5vlr5.jpg

The president and chancellor (greeklover and supplementscene) are now bound to silence until a policy is passed.

The Puzzlemaster paces nervously around the room. Entirely uncertain of what to do. Where is the trunzel arm? Did history get altered ridiculously, or did this actually happen? Perhaps an alternate universe? Have bagels been invented yet? Do bagels exist in alternate universes?

Before he can answer any of these questions. The Greek and Mr. Scene stand up.
"Gentlemen," says The Greek, "through the powers invested in us by your vote, we have decided to make it such that the Boss' gang and all its related affiliates, such as the 4th Street Boys, the Wrecking Yard, and the Downtown Choppers, will lend a hand, to the best of their abilities, to ensure that there is adequate funding such that the alien artifact, and all related research, shall work towards the benefit of all."
Various members in the room begin to raise their hands to clap, but look towards the Puzzlemaster to initiate it. Rather than clapping, he stares blankly ahead, attempting in vain to process the words he just heard.
Bookwyrm breaks the awkward silence by clarifying.

"The government has passed a liberal policy."

"Excellent! Zis is, erhm, excellent news, Strudel! Jawohl!"
The table begins to applaud before the Puzzlemaster, realizing he commands the room and riding strong upon this power high, slams his fist heavily upon the table.
"THERE SHALL BE NONE OF ZE CLAPPING! WE MUST ADVANCE! WE HAVE NO TIME! QUICKLY! MAKE ZE NEXT PERSON IN ZE LINE TO BE DER PRESIDENT!"
"What? Why would we do that, we just had-"
"VE VILL ASK ZE QUESTIONS!"
"Who's 'we'?!"
"SILENCE, STRUDEL!"


A liberal policy has been passed.
The current president is kusumahendra, who must pick a chancellor. The chancellor cannot be anyone from the previous government (greeklover, supplementscene).

The journalists have provided some pictures of the current situation.
https://i.imgur.com/RfGPUxC.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Ewc3E4V.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/jDpELJx.jpg

Nice start:)

Nice. Did you give your Chancellor Mr. Scene a choice? Or did you give him two liberal policies?

Drew 2F 1L, discarded F. This was the perfect scenario for liberals. Now, from a neutral point of view, there's a chance me or Mr Scene are Fascists / Hitler, but for the moment I think it's safe to be in a government.

I suggest the following course of action for liberals. Say no to the following nomination, and after that Mr Scene is president and I expect him to nominate me for chancellor. If he doesn't, we assasinate him, right?

As far as I understood it, no member of the previous government can be nominated Chancellor, no matter how many failed government attempts are in between. Otherwise, especially in smaller player groups, this strategy would become game-breaking. So I guess we need one other government before being able to nominate either of you.

@Mods: is that so? Or will it be possible to nominate members of the previous government after a a failed nomination.

Yes, you are right, I was just reading the rules.

So we can be fairly certain that our ex-president and ex-chancellor were liberals. Otherwise a fascist president would've nominated a fascist buddy/Hitler as chancellor. 4 more policies to go. Seems like a great start.

Now is it better to say yes to the next government so that after it Mr Scene can nominate me for chancellor?

Btw if I had to nominate a chancellor now, I would nominate Big Brass because he voted no for the first government. My instinct says that was a liberal's move.

OK, that went fast.

Just out of curiosity, what is it? You play mafia a lot and always vote not?

I assume Mr. Scene will confirm this.

We can? Would a fascist/Hitler start off the game guns blazing for the sake of passing a single fascist policy? Especially if both of them are term-locked afterwards? They can both be fascist and passing a liberal policy to gain trust and while making us feel a bit safer knowing that 2 fascist policies have been blown when in reality the draw was 2 or 3 liberal ones. Or greeklover could be Hitler trying to see if supplementscene would pass the fascist policy. Of course, it may be exactly as they claim - my point is that "fairly certain" feels a bit too strong.

On a separate topic, Brasas was the only one to vote against what claims to be and on the surface looks like a liberal government.

It's a nice start, let's see where we go from here...

I never played this game before but if I were a fascist, I'd risk it. You can always claim that you had three fascist policy cards.

I like data, and the more votes the better. For each policy vote we get 3 attempts at forming a government which could be 3 votes.
I don't play Mafia like this, but Resistance yes; I almost always vote No until I have some reason to do otherwise.