46th 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, formal consent from a running mate, and be between 30 to 70 years old. Additionally presidential candidates are privileged with legal immunity across the election period.

## Nominations

Since the previous presidential election, Mr. Nugget had been galvanized to run for President by the Montiel/Lemonn ticket which ran simply in the name of a meme grassroots ''Nuggetite Presidential Movement''. Mr. Nugget would go on to serve as Chancellor throughout the Bossman Presidency increasing his relevancy and standing. A Nugget/Reeves ticket would be planned holding the support of the APM and PP but after Reeves defected over to the SDP over the 102nd government's policies, the ticket would be amended to a Nugget/Arjona ticket in hopes of gaining the support of KAB as it was known Jimmy Mahfety was planning to run for President.

Vice Chancellor24 May 2023 – 23 July 2023
Speaker30 May 2023 – 13 July 2023

APM would ask KAB to endorse Nugget/Arjona who would decline as they aimed to have Jimmy and possibly other meme tickets run in the first round and then endorse Nugget in a possible runoff. After frequent petition the KAB would passively agree to endorse Nugget/Arjona while they secretly sorted their own plans in peace.

Unlike many KAB candidates, Vice Chancellor Jimmy Mahfety would decide to run by his own choice coincidentally playing into KA's plans of having him run due to him being the KAB's first presidential candidate and KA wished him to also be the last; at the time it was publicly a secret that KAB, APM, PP would be merging after the 46th presidential election. KA originally envisioned having 4 kabbers run as meme tickets mirroring the 32nd presidential election but after Jimmy informed KA that a KAB-SDP ticket was possible, KA knew it would be a once in a year opportunity to have a presidential election without an SDP presidential candidate and another KAB president.

Aurelius Barres would plan to run for president again having previously ran and lost in PE38 and PE42. This time however would mark 23 presidential elections since PE23 when Aurelius was first and solely elected. This time Aurelius would run with a ''in it to win it'' attitude he however would fail to be endorsed by any political party.

A Jimmy/StarsBees ticket would be agreed upon by the KAB and SDP but had taken much longer than expected by now it was widely expected SDP had forfeited any serious SDP ticket and that KAB would be endorsing Nugget/Arjona. At this point with less than 48 hours before voting, the KAB and SDP would decide to keep their endorsements a secret until the last minute to play it to their advantage.

Lux Jefferson would enter as a late entry running on a campaign discouraging people to vote for him and to instead vote for Mahfety/StarsBees. CSM was planned to endorse Nugget/Arjona in exchange for a pardon of Ethan but in the end failed to deliver such an endorsement due to a lack of enthusiasm by CSM leadership at the time. ALRP was planned to also endorse Nugget but would in the end decide not to due to APM offers being neutralized by SDP in the event that either candidate won such as amending weapon procurement rules. Nugget/Arjona would be endorsed by APM and PP. The SDP would endorse Mahfety/StarsBees with only 61 minutes remaining until election time.

5 minutes before election time, the KAB would also endorse Mahfety/StarsBees in a moment that would be remembered by some as *the KAB in the back* due to how shockingly betraying it was. Unbeknownst to all the election would be a full 60 minutes late and premiered on 10:00 PM EST. Just 3 minutes into the election Chancellor Nugget would rage quit and leave. This would be an unprecedented moment in Adorian political history as the only time a presidential candidate left in the middle of an election and the 2nd Chancellor to ever leave the server mid-chancellorship (1st was RookWilt in November 2021). Never before had the course of the wind in an election changed so swiftly and suddenly.

At the time of voting, Mr. Nugget had sent **2,549** messages in the last 30 days. Jimmy however had only **1,018,** Abra at **765** messages, and Lux with **470** in the last 30 days. A presidential debate would be held making it the first since the 44th presidential election. Aurelius would be represented by Tomi due to availability issues. This election would see a surprising amount of campaigning with lots of posters present.

## Results

The 46th presidential election would begin on July 22nd 2023, concurrent with the 103rd general election. This election would be unprecedented for having the leading rightwing candidate not in the server. Despite this APM would ping their party to vote for Nugget/Arjona but made no serious whipping effort. ALRP would also encourage their members to vote for Nugget but after a few hours realized he wasn't in the server and would then stop because of this. CSM would not vouch for any candidate during voting. KAB and SDP would whip for Mahfety/StarsBees while PP still whipped for Nugget/Arjona after a deal was reached that Arjona would make TPP Leader Lich his VP if he won, despite this Arjona publicly endorsed Jimmy and expressed he would be voting for him. This is the only known time a candidate's VP betrayed their own running mate. Mr. Nugget would return the next day but had been absent from the server for 90.90% of voting time.

After concluding the next day, the results would be released on July 27th 2023 following a 76-hour wait. Jimmy's victory would be unsurprising to many. This election would mark over a year since a Day 1er was elected President, the last had been Reeves in the 32nd presidential election, which was also the last time Jimmy ran for President. This election would also mark 13 months since the last time a presidential election had no SDP presidential candidate.

## See Also

* Presidential Elections
* 103rd Adorian General Election
* 45th Adorian Presidential Election
* 47th Adorian Presidential Election