Hardship Ready Giving No Approval 4 years ago
When playing Horatio, I switched from Dictatorship to Federation. Ecologists got re-elected as leading party. "Hardship Ready" got reinstated. But now there is no +15 approval bonus anymore. Not in the law's description and no effect on the systems.
Quitting and reloading did not help, reloading from a previous save neither. After the election, the bonus is gone.
EDIT: Changing government back to Dictatorship gives the bonus again. It seems, Dictatorship gives the law extra power - something that is documented only for Republic. There is no in-game hint about it. And the Fandom Wiki says about the "laws provide better effects" aspect of the Republic: "No other government type has something like this, and sometimes it unlocks entirely "new" effects on a law which simply aren't present on the non-republic version of the law."