48th Adorian Presidential Election

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==Electoral System==
The President of Adoria is directly elected using a two-round system for a four-week term, with a two term consecutivity limit.
Pursuant to the provisions of the Adorian Constitution, the president must be elected by an absolute majority of valid votes. If no candidate succeeds in passing this threshold in the first round, a second round of voting is held with the two candidates who received the largest shares of the vote. If the runoff ties than the President elected by the National Assembly.
In order to be registered to contest the election, a candidate must be an Adorian citizen for at least 3 weeks, and have collected at least 10 voters' signatures by themselves, formal consent from a running mate, and be between 30 to 70 years old. Additionally presidential candidates are privileged with legal immunity across the election period.
== Nominations ==
On October 7th 2023, SDP Deputy Lady Alice would announce she would be running for President this time with incumbent NA Speaker Tomi as her running mate. She would easily have the backing of her party.
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CSM Leader Carlos Montiel would decide to run for President and would reach out to the SDP with the hopes of forming a unity ticket. The SDP would make no resistance to Montiel choosing SDP leadership committee member Reeves to be his running mate however the gesture did not guarantee any support from the SDP.
CPA Co-Leader Lich would launch a presidential campaign with CPA whip Poly as his VP. Their goal however was not to win and was to instead serve as a psyop to distract the SDP in hopes to decrease SDP whipping so that Montiel could win in a single round. Lich would strongly encourage all of CPA to vote for Montiel and not himself.
CDA Deputy Curry would also run for president with Independent Auber as his running mate. Lemonn (not be confused with Fmr. President Lemon) would also run picking obscure Independent Sebster as his running running mate. Both Curry-Auber and Lemonn-Sebster would serve as minor campaign sideshows in addition to Lich-Poly.
At the time of election, Carlos Montiel had sent 908 messages in the last 30 days, while Alice had 210, Curry had 1,850, Lich had 2,103, and Lemonn had sent 764 messages.
== Results==
The 48th presidential election would begin on October 9th 2023, concurrent with the 107th general election. After voting concluded, it would take 65 hours for the results to the first round to be announced confirming what many had accepted that Montiel-Reeves and Alice-Tomi would be proceeding to a runoff. Usually runoff announcements, if any, come quickly but it was delayed this time due to voter verification. Typically the runoff starts soon after but it seemed the Election commission had gambled that Montiel had possibly won in just 1 round and so immediately began the verification process instead of immediately announcing there would be a runoff. While Montiel did receive 50.00% of the vote, this did not qualify legally as a majority and so a runoff was indeed required.
In the 1st round, Montiel had been the only candidate properly endorsed by a party, that being the CSM. But for the 2nd round, other parties would quickly get their heads in the game and the SDP and NAPP properly endorsed the Alice-Tomi ticket. Carlos would be bolstered by endorsements from the CDA and CPA in the 2nd round.
On October 15th 2023, the runoff officially began 4.5 hours late. After voting concluded the next day, it would take only a brief 24 hours for results to be released on October 17th 2023. This would make Montiel the 4th person to ever be elected to a 3rd term after KA, DANIEL!, and Von Oldrich. This would make Lady Alice an unprecedented and unrivaled loser for now becoming the runner-up for a 4th time in her career. She had previously been runner-up in PE33, PE38, and PE39. To this day this is a feat no other Adorian has managed to pull off. This election would also make Reeves the first transgender to be elected Vice President. Reeves had served as VP previously but solely pre-trans. Lady Alice has also served as VP but only through appointment. Montiel and Reeves would become the first pair to have served as Prez and VP to each other a vice versa; they ran a Reeves-Montiel ticket in PE32 and won.
Candidate	Candidate 	Party 	1st Round	1st Round	2nd Round	2nd Round	Running Mate	Running Mate
 	Carlos Montiel	Christian Solidarity Movement	50.00% 	56 	65.77% 	73 	 	Reeves
 	Lady Alice 	Social Democratic Party 	31.25% 	35 	34.23% 	38 	 	Tomi
 	Curry 	Confederate Demo. Alliance 	10.71% 	12 	 	 	 	Auber
 	Lich 	Conservative Party 	4.46% 	5 	 	 	 	Poly
 	Lemonn 	Independent 	3.57% 	4 	 	 	 	Sebster
Total 	Total 	Total 	16.84% 	112 	16.69% 	111 	 	
==See Also==
*Presidential Elections
*107th Adorian General Election
*47th Adorian Presidential Election
*49th Adorian Presidential Election