12MaxWild

12MaxWild is an Australian politician, currently serving as Member of Parliament for Brisbane and Leader of the Commonwealth Party of Australia as well as Deputy Prime Minister.

Joining Australian politics in August of 2020, he remained a member of the Liberals until he lost a disputed leadership election in December 2020 and joined Griffo's National Party. Under the leadership of Griffonomics, 12MaxWild contested the July 2020 October 2020, January 2021 and April 2021 elections unsuccessfully before being elected as MP for Brisbane in the July 2021 election. Since before the July election, 12MaxWild served as the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party after the National party merged with the old Liberal Party, with Russian Hacker (/u/buttsforpm) served as Leader and Leader of the Opposition. After the 29th of August by-election in Sydney, where /u/MLastCelebration narrowly lost to /u/Haroldinite, Russian Hacker resigned as party leader, although he had been rumoured to be planning leaving the role for weeks before. He privately endorsed 12MaxWild to succeed him, but /u/Riley8583 stepped up to contest the leadership position. Max ran on a centrist, pro-infrastructure platform while Riley ran on a traditional right wing to far-right platform with anti-vaccination as his primary policy.

After a tight leadership battle, 12MaxWild won the leadership contest with 7 votes to 6, succeeding Russian Hacker on the 2nd of September 2021.

12MaxWild didn't experience smooth sailing as Liberal Leader and while on holiday was couped by Riley8583, leading Max to create the Commonwealth Party in September 2021. Max unfortunately was unable to contest the December 2021 election as he was banned for a short time and Russian Hacker took the party to win 3 seats. With Max returning one month later he and Russian Hacker took the CPA to become the largest party on 6 seats. However, a dispute over party leadership led to 2 members splitting off and reforming the Australian Democrats, causing Russian Hacker to resign as leader. The CPA formed government with the Socialists and Greens soon after with Max being Deputy Prime Minister. Halfway into the term the Green Party and the Australian Democrats shockingly merged with the CLP. This led to the Socialists and Commonwealth governing alone together.

Tensions began brewing as policy differences between the parties became clearer and the CPA became annoyed at the inactivity of the SPA. This became more and more tense leading to public hostility. This culminated with the infamous CANZIRES negotiations in which the SPA negotiated an alternative to CANZUK which Max had been planning for months to go through which indeed did pass parliament. A rogue aide of his sent a threatening tsxg to Jacinda Ardern which was seized on by Socialist PM to boot Max out of the DPMship. The CPA proceeded to then move a Vote of No Confidence in the government which passed, decimating the SPA'S poll numbers and boosting the revived LNP.

Currently, the CPA seems set to finally form government with 12MaxWild as their leader, potentially the first majority since the Youmaton administration.