Influence factions within your own government?

[Philo32b]

Is there a way to support or suppress one of the political factions that are in your empire? Or influence them in any way? The factions within your own government I am talking about, not foreign governments.

[HansLemurson]

I believe you do this through adjusting your ethical profile, hiring or firing cabinet members from certain factions, and accepting or refusing a Faction's requests.

However I don't think there's any way to make them really go away or prevent new recruits from joining the faction that matches their ideals most closely.

[Soar_Slitherine]

There's a strategem that allows you to spend money to support one of your factions, from the 1st tier Commerce regime feat if I remember correctly. You can also retire or assassinate their characters.

[Philo32b]

Thank you for your responses. I was able to get rid of the annoying internal faction whose ideals went against my government by firing the two members and then getting them to retire with stratagem cards. I had previously used the stratagem card that supports the factions that I wanted to promote, but each of those cards cost 1,000 and didn't seem to do very much in the elections. Just getting rid of members seems more effective and cheaper.