35th Adorian Presidential Election

←34th - 28th July 2022 - 36th→

This would be the only presidential election held under the Sixth Federal Republic. Candidates would now be required to collect their own signatures.

## 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 Sixth Federal Republic 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

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As the Vice Presidency had been abolished by the new constitution, this would be the first presidential without running mates since the 13th Presidential election circa August 2020.

A rare United Right Primary would be held between the ANP, AFP, CSM, KAB, and LUA this would be the first one since the 22nd Presidential election in July 2021. The candidates would be ANP's Earthly, AFP's Shennogo, CSM's Meow Zedong, KAB's Shuzi, and LUA's KaizerBill. Shennogo, KaizerBill, and Meow would advance to Round 2. in a third round held between KaizerBill and Meow, Meow would emerge triumphant with **51.2%**. A very narrow victory of 22 votes compared to KaizerBill's 21.

On the Left, SDP Leader and incumbent Chancellor Valeryon would run. It would be unorthodox that both Meow and Val were married and that the 2 candidates were so similar in politics even if Meow was in the CSM, both had held a history with leftist socialism. There would be no debate organized by any news station but nevertheless they would engage in heated argument throughout campaigning. The rivalry would be unexpectedly broken by surprise campaigns launched by the KAB's Mikikim and Arjona. Their inclusion would be considered vastly humourous as they only served to split the vote between the 2 polarizing choices.

Following the United Right Primary, the CSM, ANP would stay true and endorse Meow. The KAB would stay somewhat true to the primary and would not run Shuzi who dropped out in response to loosing the primary. Arjona and Mikikim would however run ignoring the primary. KAB would not endorse any candidate due to not wanting to be biased towards any KAB candidate or directly defying the primary.

AFP Leader Javybean from the very beginning would be opposed to CSM's inclusion due to perceiving it as a leftist party. In response they would take the shocking move to do a 180 and endorse Valeryon, preferring secular socialism over theocratic socialism. The move would be met with much ridicule and many would leave the AFP in reaction. LUA Leader LC would be out of commission due to sickness, LUA Deputy KaizerBill would take the decision to follow AFP and also endorse Valeryon. LD would also endorse Val.

Otto Von Oldrich had planned on running for President with the UWF's backing but as he ultimately decided to not run the UWF would choose to endorse Meow Zedong.

## Results

On July 28th 2022, the presidential election would go live concurrent with the 81st general election. The only candidate to be endorsed would be Meow by the CSM, ANP, UWF as all of Val's endorsements (SDP, AFP, LUA, LD) had failed to properly endorse him under the proper procedure.

After concluding on 29th, it would be announced on July 30th 2022, after a 24 hour wait that Zedong and Valeryon would proceed to a runoff, 2 more hours later the full results would be released on the 31st. Later that day the runoff would start. In the adjusted endorsements, the KAB would join Meow's endorsements. The SDP, LUA, AFP would all properly endorse Valeryon this time around but the LD would again fail to endorse him on time and would be left out.

After 10 hours results to the runoff would be announced on August 2nd 2022: Zedong would emerge victorious with **63** votes compared to Valeryon's 61 in one of Adoria's closest presidential elections yet. Turnout for the rounds would be **18.79%** and **19.20%** respectively. Zedong would be inaugurated as the 34th President of Adoria later that day. Many would remind Val that this was his 4th failed presidential campaign (having previously ran in the 26th, 27th, 28th PEs). In response he would cause himself to get muted for the next 7 days.

## See Also

* Presidential Elections
* 81st Adorian General Election
* 34th Adorian Presidential Election
* 36th Adorian Presidential Election