42nd 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 no term limits.

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

The rule on term limits had since been gone for 8 months when the Adorian Federation was brought to an end. While no Adorian President in history had ever served a third consecutive term, President Von Oldrich would have every intention to especially as he was unable to govern with a SDP majority in any of his 2 terms as he wished to. He would easily be endorsed by the SDP as he was still their leader. Earthly would be the most vocal opponent to this regarding it as yet another example of growing presidential authoritarianism. For his VP, Von Oldrich would want to run with Arjona again but the KAB would not be interested in passively allowing another informal SDP/KAB ticket. In his place Von Oldrich would run with Carlos Montiel instead who at the time held no party leadership or government position.

President of Adoria2 January 2023 – *incumbent*
Vice President7 April 2022 – 30 May 2022

KAB's plan for the election would be to run KAB deputy Arjona for President and their first choice for VP would be CSM Leader Lady Alice who would decline due to being unable to commit to the term. Their next approach would be ALRP Leader Yannick who had also been approached by Aurelius Barres and Lady Alice who were also interested in having him as their VP. In the end Yannick would choose to run with Arjona as part of a KAB-ALRP deal which involved KAB voting against any SDP bills that would create a presidential republic during the 95th Assembly and also advocate for a non-KAB chancellor in the future 95th government negotiations. Arjona would be endorsed by KAB while a ALRP endorsement failed to happen on time.

While Aurelius would fail to secure his ideal running mate he would nonetheless run anyways with Jakok von Kettler a wildly popular farmer serving as an Independent MNA who was born on November 1st 2022 making him the 2nd youngest active Adorian at the time, 2nd only to Satoru Gojo who was born on December 26th 2022. Aurelius would be endorsed by ACI.

At the time of election Arjona had sent **116** messages (#29) in the last 30 days while Von Oldrich had sent **196** (#17) and Aurelius was at **436** (#10).

## Results

The 42nd presidential election would begin on March 2nd 2023, concurrent with the 95th general election. This would be the first presidential election to include profile pictures for both the Presidential and Vice Presidential candidate. After concluding the next day it would take a surprisingly quick 24 hours for results to be released on March 4th 2023. This would make President Von Oldrich the third person to win a 3rd term after King Adoria and Daniel Wilson and the first person to win 3 terms consecutively. This is the 2nd time in Adorian history that a party won 3 presidential elections in a row, after the LDP. This is the first time the VP-elect and VP runner up are of the same party. This is the 2nd time ever that someone has been elected Vice President more than once, the first had been King Adoria. This would also mark the first time in Adorian history that the numerations for the President and Vice President matched; both were now on their respective 39ths. Turnout would be **9.60%**.

## See Also

* Presidential Elections
* 95th Adorian General Election
* 41st Adorian Presidential Election
* 43rd Adorian Presidential Election