44th 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 and be between 30 to 70 years old.

## Nominations

Chancellor of Adoria21 January 2023 – 3 February 2023
Vice President12 January 2023 – 2 February 2023

Immediately following the release of the 43rd presidential election results on April 7th 2023, Earthly would announce his intentions to run in the subsequent presidential election in his concession speech to President Von Oldrich. Across these 4 weeks he would be able to maintain a strong position as the only right-winger wanting to run for President. He would be able to secure KAB support to be his running mate. When offered between the choices of King Adoria or Nepo, Earthly would choose KA. The Earthly-KA ticket would be endorsed by the APM, KAB, CSM, PRP.

    On the left many candidates would explore the possibility of running for President so a primary would be held hosted between the SDP, ACI, and ALRP. A ticket of Meow Zedong and Aurelius Barres (SDP-ACI) would be able to win **51.5%** over Carlos Montiel and Yannick Roosevelt's 48.5% (SDP-ALRP). Following this the Zedong-Barres ticket would be endorsed by the SDP and ACI. Montiel and Yannick would refuse to concede and run anyways claiming there had been non-legitimate and an ottocrat could not be allowed to win at all costs; they would be endorsed by ALRP.

Zedong was perceived as an ottocrat hardliner even publicly remarking, *''otto will seem like ghandi'',* Montiel on the other hand was viewed as an SDP moderate who opposed Von Oldrich's excessive usage of the veto power and presidentialism. Despite this, VP Montiel would be endorsed by President Von Oldrich ahead of the primary. Montiel's chances would be considered strengthened following Von Oldrich's assassination on May 3rd 2023, gaining him the incumbency advantage.

Less than an hour before the 44th presidential election began, President Montiel would pardon Earthly and Mastersauce of any possible offense committed in *Legal Organization for Accountability v. Earthly* which had resulted in Earthly being found guilty of aiding and abetting murder by encouraging NA Speaker StarsBees to assassinate President Von Oldrich. The LOA is a special interest group ran by Meow Zedong. Following President Montiel's pardons, the Supreme Court would issue another verdict declaring that a pardon only forgives someone from legal punishment while an expungement was a separate concept. Meaning that Earthly still had a felony on his criminal record even if he did not have to serve his 10-year sentence. Under the constitution, felons were forbidden to run for President at this time meaning Earthly's candidacy was invalid. 1 minute before the 44th presidential election began, Server owner Matthew V would issue a staff announcement declaring that presidential and vice presidential candidates would now hold immunity from prosecution during election periods. The ploy to invalidate Earthly's campaign had failed and Zedong's actions would be considered unpopular and politically conniving.

This would be the first time a presidential debate was held since the 40th presidential election. At the time of election Earthly had sent **1,816** messages (#1) in the last 30 days while Carlos had sent **1,111** (#6) messages and Meow Zedong had sent **1,087** (#7).

## Results

The 44th presidential election would begin on May 4th 2023, concurrent with the 99th general election. The next day results to round 1 would be released 33 minutes **before** round 1 ended. This would be by error and the final percentages would slightly differ but nonetheless Earthly-KA and Zedong-Barres would both advance to a runoff.

Ahead of the runoff Montiel would not publicly endorse any candidate and wished good luck to both. The ALRP would endorse Earthly-KA would switch their endorsement to Zedong-Barres after ALRP leader Yannick received threats. The runoff would go live on May 6th 2023 and concluded the next day, with final results to both rounds being released after a 4-hour wait on May 8th 2023. Earthly would be inaugurated later that day as the 41st President of Adoria. This would be the first time in over 1 year that the President was non-SDP non-CSM non-KAB. This would be the 6th time King Adoria was elected Vice President. in compliance with the neutrality clause, Earthly would leave the APM shortly before inauguration just as Carlos Montiel had left the SDP. Zedong would be overcome with severe dissociative identity disorder and defected from the SDP to the PRP before joining the APM. Earthly is the first Synarossian President in 8 months.

## See Also

* Presidential Elections
* 99th Adorian General Election
* 43rd Adorian Presidential Election
* 45th Adorian Presidential Election