2035 Libirachi Presidential Election

The **2035 Libirachi Empire Presidential Election**, was the sixth election for the office of President of the Libirachi Empire and was held on October 7, 2035, with incumbent President Karyn Voor and Progressive party candidate Ellen Nadeer contesting the election. Ultimately President Karyn Voor won election to her first full term in office with 2848 votes, having served out the last 2 years of her predecessor's term following the 2033 Libirachi Coup d'état and the 2033 Presidential Conformation Vote in July 2033.

Between 2030 and 2033, the then-president Damien Salamander and Empress Penny Fox became engaged in a power struggle for control over the executive branch of the Libirachi government, with the Salamander administration seeking to redefine the powers of the Libirachi presidency to its pre-2019 fully executive position. Amid the bitter power struggle, the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order overthrew President Salamander in July 2033 with the backing of the monarchy, instead appointing Karyn Voor as president. Within months of Voor's inauguration, the Bovido Imperium launched an invasion of the Libirachi-backed Islamic Emirate of Egypt in September 2033; in response, Voor declared war on the Bovido regime and assembled a coalition of allied states from the Eurasian Union of States and anti-Bovido regimes in Africa in order to fight on the Fox Dynasty's behalf until the full mobilisation of Libirachi forces. As the Libirachi government struggled to coordinate the mobilisation of the Libirachi Imperial Army, President Voor passed the Military Oversight Act of 2034 to establish the Central Military Commission of the Libirachi National Congress as a means to directly bring the armed forces under government control; following the CMC's establishment in May 2034, the Voor administration began a purge of senior military figures deemed to be hindering the war effort. Over the winter of 2034-35, President Voor oversaw the creation of the Shanghai Pact to encompass all Libirachi allied forces under a single collective security treaty, and launched a direct invasion of Bovido-controlled Jerusalem in May 2035.

On October 1, 2035, a nationwide election was held to select members of the 30th National Congress, with the Revolutionary party remaining as the largest grouping in the legislative branch. Following the election of Eleija Longwood, 7th Duchess Longwood as the new chairman of congress and the appointment of congressional whips on October 7th, the LNC began electoral proceedings with the formal nominations of incumbent president Karyn Voor and Progressive party nominee Ellen Nadeer for the election, before moving to a ballot of representatives. Despite having first been elected as a representative of the Libirachi Revolutionary Party, Voor instead opted to stand for re-election as a member of the COMPNOR Political Bureau. With the support of the Revolutionary, Socialist, Kuomintang, armed forces, and COMPNOR factions of congress, Voor was elected to a full presidential term with 2848 out of 2980 votes. The ongoing war against the Bovido Imperium meant that few within congress were willing to directly oppose the government during a time of war, whilst the nomination of Nadeer as the main opposition candidate despite her not being the leader of a major party was viewed as a signal that the vote was merely a formality to extend Voor's premiership.

Following her re-election as president of the Fox Dynasty by the Libirachi National Congress, Karyn Voor assembled a new cabinet comprised mostly of members of the COMPNOR Political Bureau; whilst Voor had come to office with the backing of several liberal members of the Revolutionary party, senior party figures such as Xiao Chen, Lauren Salamander, and Carlo Boreal were removed from their cabinet positions and replaced by politicians with noticeable links to the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order. Upon the formation of her cabinet, Voor travelled to the Forbidden City in Beijing to meet with Keely Morse, 1st Duchess of Shanghai, who used her position as head of the Imperial Privy Council to appoint Voor as president on behalf of Empress Penny Fox, who was on a state visit to Avalonia. President Voor's second term in office was largely dominated by war with the Bovido Imperium, and the subsequent peace process of the Treaty of Shanghai and the Jerusalem Peace Conference. In 2038, Voor re-established the formerly dormant position of vice president and appointed her deputy Angelica Rivera to the office, before endorsing Rivera for her 2040 presidential campaign, and instead standing down to become the Chairwoman of the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order on October 7, 2040.