38th Adorian Presidential Election

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This would be the only presidential election held under the Adorian Socialist Republic and would herald Adoria's First Female President

## 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 Socialist 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

While technically able to run for a 3rd term as term limits did not exist, President Wilson would choose not to and to instead foresee his ultimate retirement once his 2nd term was completed. At this point in time the Vice Presidency had been reestablished reintroducing running mates for the first time in 4 months. The coming race for President would prove to be one of the most competitive in a long time.

Lady Alice had previously ran in the 33rd presidential election as the SDP's choice but would ultimately fail and loose against King Adoria. Since that time she had defected to the CSM where she managed to become a 2-term Chancellor and even Party leader of the CSM. On October 3rd 2022, she would defect back over to the SDP citing contrasting views on gender and republicanism. Having now been a solid member of the SDP for 3 weeks she would consult KAB Leader KA on the prospect of being her VP. He would decline as he did not want to be VP again and the KAB had always been anti-SDP since their inception. In the spirit of compromise he would offer the choice of a Lemon/Alice ticket in which after 69 hours Lemon would resign making her President. Alice would **decline** this offer opting to instead run with the incumbent Chancellor Flame9067.

The fear of a double-SDP ticket would only motivate King Adoria more to stop such a reality from ever happening. His original plan would be a Lemon/Nepo ticket but Nepo would not want to run against Alice due to the strain it could have on their friendship. KA would ask Yannick if he would like to be VP, and after 69 hours Lemon would be assassinated in a potential CT event which would result in Yannick becoming President just like how US President Theodore Roosevelt did. Yannick would **decline** this offer as it did not have the support of the Moderates who were instead planning on running their own candidate.

The Moderates under their leader Attica Barres would run himself as his own party's candidate. He would receive an offer from the KAB that they would endorse him to serve as a United Right ticket under the condition he ran with either Yannick or Lemon as his VP. Attica would **decline** this offer opting to run with Gyldenløve, first of his name, the original you might say. His reasoning was that Gylden was newly fresh on the scene and would serve as a fresh choice.

Unable to achieve a United Right ticket or find a suitable VP for Lemon, King Adoria would take his ''nuclear option'' and run as Lemon's VP himself. He had a feeling this ticket could be one of KAB's strongest yet and wanted to make sure the Lemon campaign could be seen as acceptably serious if it had a VP such as himself.

## Round One

Both Attica and Alice would lead highly serious and professional campaigns, Lemon however would opt to run a satirical campaign promising to kill all the birds so that they can't shit on your car anymore if she won, along with promising to legalize assassinations and full rubber tires.

Gyldenløve had previously left Adoria on September 27th 2022, and returned on October 25th 2022. This return would bring no rejuvenation and after 17 messages he slumped into inactivity. He would send just 1 message on Oct26th, and 0 messages on Oct27th, 28th, 29th, 30th, 31st and Nov1st. It is historically speculated that this qualifies him as the most inactive VP candidate in Adorian history.

Every candidate would be endorsed by their maiden party while Lemon was also endorsed by the CSM. While it was obvious elections always lean towards the SDP, this election would hold an energy that the SDP was standing so alone that they might be able to loose. This mere thought of actual competition was greeted by everyone with open arms.

On October 28th 2022, the 38th presidential election would officially begin coinciding with the 87th general election. In the last 30 days, Lemon had sent **3,462** messages in the server making her the most active person in Adoria. Alice however was 5th with only **2,079**. Abra was not even in the top 10 holding only **996** messages in the last 30 days.

## Round Two

from Mediterraneo18 October 2022 – 1 November 2022
President of Adoria30 May 2022 – 2 August 2022

On October 29th 2022, Round 1 would conclude and after around 105 minutes of waiting it was announced Lemon and Alice would be progressing to the runoff. A day would be given for runoff campaigning and for parties to adjust endorsements. The results of Round 1 were kept secret to be released alongside Round 2's results.

Attica would upset to loose and would allude to a potential campaign in the 39th'. Lady Alice would discreetly imply she would run for re-election if she won. Lemon would be too busy with her single-digit addition homework to do any more campaigning for the election.

In the 1st round the AFP had recommended their members to vote for either Lemon or Attica. But now they were ready to formally endorse Lemon for the runoff. While it was expected the M would endorse Lemon due to their party sympathizing with the KAB, they would decide to remain neutral for the runoff. As an eliminated candidate, Attica would not endorse either choice but would welcome the prospect of either a competent or comedian President with open arms.

On October 30th 2022, Round 2 would begin and end the next day. After a 5-hour wait the results to Round 1, Round 2, and the 87th general election would be released all together on November 1st 2022.

## Results

In a surprise to many Lemon would prevail and win. This momentous occasion would make her the first female President Adoria ever had, along with the first Meme candidate to win, and the first President to have no interest in politics or history, and the first President to never have been Minister, Governor, or any major federal position. This lowly political outsider had prevailed against the SDP status quo and the System and was now ready to head up to Ador City to ''shake things up'' and ''drain the swamp''.

This would also mark the 3rd time a transgender had been runner-up. This would be the first time a double-barrel party ticket would be elected as both Lemon and KA were KAB members. Even more unusual all 3 tickets were double-barrel. On November 1st 2022, Lemon would be inaugurated as the 36th President of Adoria. KA would become the 2nd VP-elect in history to repudiate his inauguration, the first had been David Cameron in the 19th presidential election.

## See Also

* Presidential Elections
* 87th Adorian General Election
* 37th Adorian Presidential Election
* 39th Adorian Presidential Election