Candidacy

## OVERVIEW

Once an Explorer has chosen to become a Citizen of a planet by acquiring some of its governance token, they can then choose to become a Custodial Candidate and campaign to compete for citizens’ votes. A Citizen must have 5000 Planetary Tokens in order to Register their Candidacy. Once registered, those 5000 Tokens are “Staked” and cannot be used until the Candidate removes their Candidacy. (A Candidacy removal takes 48 hours to process).

Once this amount has been reached, a “Become Candidate” button will appear in both the Planet Details Module and the Governance Menu. This will provide access to a registration form requesting specific information.

### Candidate Registration

**1) Candidate Name**

* Any name the Candidate wishes to use which does not violate the Member Terms. (Up to 50 characters in length).

**2) Profile URL**

* An External URL to an image that will be pulled into their Profile. This will now overwrite the default avatar that is used for a Citizen.

**3) Candidate Message**

* The Candidate can leave a message publicly viewable in the “Candidate Profile View”. The first paragraph will automatically be larger than the rest of the message and as such can be used by Candidates to, for example, create an attention-grabbing headline for their campaign.

*NOTE 1: The content of the message must not violate the Member Terms.*

*NOTE 2: Candidates should avoid including personal information in their message.*

**4) Become a Candidate**

* Clicking this button begins the Candidacy formalisation process, including triggering an overlay where the Explorer can stake the 5000 Planetary Tokens required for Candidacy.

## CANDIDACY MANAGEMENT

Once a Citizen has registered their Candidacy, they can then actively manage various facets of it via a specific page.

**1) Manage Candidacy**

* Clicking the Manage Candidacy button in the Governance navigation menu on the right will bring up the management page.

**2) Update Profile**

* Candidates have the option to update their profile details including name, any relevant url, and their public message.

**3) Activate Candidacy**

* Citizens can activate their Candidacy for a particular Election period. If they are already an active Candidate, this part of the page will look slightly different, with the green button showing “Active Candidacy” and an additional red button appearing beneath it providing the “Withdraw Candidacy” option.

* Clicking the "Withdraw Candidacy" option activates an overlay prompting the Candidate if they're sure they wish to remove their Candidacy, with the option to cancel if this button was clicked in error, or they change their decision before formalising it.

**4) Unstake Tokens**

A Citizen who is not a Custodian, and whose Candidacy is not currently set as active, has the option to unstake the Planetary Tokens used to initially become a Candidate (NOTE: unstaking Candidacy Tokens takes 48 hrs).

### **Special Profile Border**

As a Candidate, the Citizens’s badge also updates to reflect their standing among the planet’s list of Candidates, with the border changing based on their current rank (currently based on most vote power accrued). These borders are as follows:

* 1st place

* 2nd-4th place

* 5th-10th place

* 11th place onwards

### View Voters

Candidates also have the ability to view who has voted for them.

This list is sortable by the following columns: WAM account, date voted & voting power.