2030 Libirachi Presidential Election

The **2030 Libirachi Empire Presidential Election** was the fourth election for the office of President of the Libirachi Empire and was held on October 7, 2030 between President Damien Salamander of the Revolutionary party and Han Zheng of the Progressive party, who also ran in the 2025 Election against Salamander. With the Congress of the Libirachi National Congress voting on October 7, Empress Penny Fox re-appointed Damien Salamander as president for a third term, allowing him to form the Damien Salamander III Cabinet.

Following the 2025 presidential election, the Salamander administration began a series of constitutional reforms to continue moulding the Libirachi government to the principles of Empress Penny Fox's New-Think ideology. In August 2026, an attempted coup d'état by conservative members of government led to the passing of the Same-Sex Relations Act of 2026, whilst the 2027 Global Banking Crisis allowed the Salamander administration to launch the Sino-Scandinavian Development Fund to influence foreign governments with banking relief funds. In 2028, President Salamander also authorised the use of military force to topple the Russian and Ugandan governments and replace them with Libirachi puppet regimes, as part of a growing bid to control states in Eurasia and other important trading hubs. In early 2030, Salamander also launched an invasion of neighbouring Loxenia in order to topple Generalissimo Jax Esposita.

On October 1, 2030, a nationwide election was held to select members of the 29th National Congress, with the Revolutionary party remaining as the largest grouping in the legislative branch. Following the election of Li Zhanshu as the chairman of congress and the appointment of congressional whips on October 7th, the LNC began electoral proceedings with the formal nominations of incumbent president Damien Salamander and Progressive party leader Han Zheng for the election, before moving to a ballot of representatives. With the support of the Revolutionary, Socialist, Kuomintang, armed forces, and COMPNOR factions of congress, Salamander was elected to a full presidential term with 2849 out of 2980 votes. Whilst the election was theoretically free, the Libirachi Revolutionary Party held 2008 seats in the LNC, meaning that it would be able to appoint a president without the backing of other parties, which themselves were controlled by the Revolutionary party.

With his election as president on October 7, 2030, Damien Salamander presented a new reshuffled cabinet to the Libirachi National Congress, which voted to confirm all of his appointees. Having secured the backing of the LNC for his continued presidency and a new cabinet, Salamander travelled to the Forbidden City in Beijing to meet with Empress Penny Fox, who formally re-appointed him and granted assent for his new cabinet. At 8:10pm, President Salamander gave a televised address to the nation to set out his priorities for his third term; whilst most of his speech was largely uncontroversial, Salamander's pledge to create an executive presidency within a constitutional monarchical constitution sparked fury from loyalists and Empress Fox herself, who viewed the pledge as a direct threat to her authority.

President Salamander's third term in office was marked by a period of political crisis as both Salamander and the Empress Fox sought to gain control over the executive branch of government; the dismissal of Salamander would bring into question the constitutionally neutral position of the monarchy, whilst any proposal to change the constitution in favour of the presidency would be blocked by monarchists in the legislature. Consequently, the two factions engaged in an intense power struggle across all levels of government for three years, until the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order (COMPNOR) conducted a coup d'état against Damien Salamander in July 2033 and removed his government from power at the behest of Empress Penny Fox. Upon Salamander's forced resignation, the Libirachi National Congress elected COMPNOR leader Karyn Voor as president.