It's a combination of both, really. IP lost a lot of members recently, and the stream is starting to turn into MSMG and lose its roleplay politics aspect. The Totalitarian Alliance won the election by promising better management of the stream than the RUP, but they haven't done too great, which is why Envoy, OP, and SuGas aren't even going to try to seek reelection (probably for the best). Randomness (who appears to be the frontrunner for the LA presidential nomination) seems a little more promising than Envoy, but that's not really saying much since Envoy was very uninspiring. Plus, the last thing the stream needs is to the reelect a party that put us in this situation after making campaign promises they couldn't keep, and is essentially a mismatched coalition built on nothing but an obsessive hatred for one user who isn't even in government anymore (me).