I'm assuming with whomever is voted in next. If enough people have reservations about ZFR and it's voted down, presumably the next presidential candidates will see the same bit of obvious. Seemingly that might also be me.

Maybe I'm seeing the game in a different way from some. To me, I'm not looking at it from the viewpoint of testing anyone or gaining more information. We'll do that of course, but to me that happens throughout the game no matter what the choices. The way to win is enhancing the chances to "harvest" the liberal cards if they are drawn (i.e. not have them be dumped by the fascists) since there are fewer of them. You do that by passing the governments that seem to have more inclination to pass a liberal agenda assuming they get one. Or, in other words, make every elected government be composed of the those who seem among the more credible players in the game as opposed to the truly unknowns or distrusted if possible.

I tend to trust ZFR, some others seemingly don't. Another downside is that if the plan is to cycle back to Greek in the fewest possible governments, the next government has to be Cristi and some may not trust her as much as Brasas or Blotunga. I can see those as fair assessments. Personally, I wouldn't have a problem with an extra government before Greek's if that meant both ZFR and mine pass. I don't think the extra step would really hurt us, but skipping one of us doesn't really hurt either. I think however we play it, given our lead, we will probably win as long as we stick with the general philosophy of passing credible governments where possible and don't draw the crappiest cards possible every time..