2nd Chinese Presidential Election

## About

The Republic of China had its second presidential elections on the 3rd of April, 2023. Featuring four candidates from all three parties. The election process started officially on the 2nd of April with campaigning, and ended on the 6th of April with cukvaux' narrow victory.

## Candidates

### Kuomintang

The candidate of the KMT was the incumbent President Goosw. She was unopposed by her party's members. She later forfeited during first round for a new president to be elected.

### Niu-Yin Bund

The candidate of the Bund was the incumbent Premier JosephStalin, according to Bund politicans he declared his candidacy without asking but was generally approved by his party so at the end, he ended up being the candidate.

### Renmindang

The candidate of the RMD was the incumbent Minister of Infrastructure cukvaux, he ran while still being in an electoral alliance with the KMT.

### Independent Candidates

Governor Sett initially ran as an independent candidate but withdrew before the polls opened. Former Bund Chairwoman and a current Governor NotaFouton ran as an independent candidate despite being a member of the Bund, even she didn't vote for herself.

## Campaigning

### First Round (2nd of April)

During the first campaigning time, the only candidate to write down their promises was the People's Party's candidate cukvaux. His promises were generally on a left-wing populist platform. Other candidates used GIFs and short messages as a way of campaigning.

### Second Round (5th of April)

During the second round's campaigning time, the Bund's candidate JosephStalin was the first to list their promises, despite overall being well-received the clause about internal affairs drew suspicion as it was commonly seen as an acknowledgement of the existence of the CPC(M) by the party. The Bund refused any connections or mentions to the CPC(M) and argued that the communist group mentioned was independent from the CPC(M) and the Bund.

As a reply, the other candidate cukvaux included "War on Terror" in his campaign but later backed down after the incumbent President Goosw mediated between the two to avoid any polarizing issues such as a hypothetical civil war. cukvaux ran again on left-wing populism opposed to the semi-communist more far-left leaning promises of the Bund. He argued for parliamentary democracy, and development projects.

## Controversies

### "4 Communist Fighters" by JosephStalin

In his campaign promises, Stalin included a clause about a possible civil war plot conducted by four unidentified communists, the clause was heavily criticized by both RMD and KMT politicians. The critic soon turned into a full heated debate but then with the intervention of Goosw, both sides backed down. The clause was criticized for showing the alleged connections of the Bund with the CPC(M).

### "Independent Trials" by cukvaux

As a reply to the words of Stalin, cukvaux included a comprehensive war on terror program in his promises, again this was heavily criticized for being undemocratic, allegedly fascist and polarizing. He later said that the creation of a judiciary branch of the government came with independent trials directed towards government officials. He later said that he would first try to achieve peaceful dialogs. There was a heated debate on the matter of war on terror and the CPC(M) but with the intervention of Goosw, he backed down on the promises of war on terror and trials.

## Results

### First Round

During the first round of the elections, a question rose after both KMT and RMD shared the exact same percentage but it soon changed after KMT received one more vote. Normally, the KMT and the Bund should have advanced into the second round as the most voted two but the Incumbent President and the Candidate of the KMT, Goosw forfeited leaving RMD and the Bund for the second round.

**First Round Results by Candidate**
 JosephStalin
 cukvaux
 NotaFouton
 TOTAL

### Second Round

During the second round, turnout rose. The first results showed cukvaux with an overwelhming 77.7% of the popular vote after that the Bund's turnout started to rise, and ended with Bund receiving 46.2% and losing narrowly to the RMD's candidate cukvaux. cukvaux received 53.8% of the popular vote.

**Second Round Results by Candidate**
 JosephStalin
 T0TAL