Presidential Elections

Presidential elections in New France are held every five year during a three months period where all legal citizens have to vote between three main candidates, as well as five other candidates, although the main candidates are the most likely to win, it has happened for a secondary candidate to be elected two times in the country's history in the case of Pierre-Louis Allaire and Claude Coquelin. During the three month voting period voting offices, with people of most political parties in the nation, are opened to the public in every village, town or city, and allow citizens with ages ranging from nineteen years-old to eighty-years-old, however, only people who have confirmed citizenship can vote, and not tourists. After the three month period from September to November is over the offices are closed and the votes are counted under heavy camera surveillance to avoid any voting fraud, and by the end of December votes are sent to the Federal Government in Lamilleaux where they are once again verified by government workers with no party-affiliation, then, on the 1st of January of the next year the result of the election is announced at the Halphen Center in downtown Lamilleaux, and on the following day, on the 2nd of January the previous president hands over the keys of the presidential palace, the Palais Rochetin at the Halphen Center, before leaving the place to the new president, who has the legal obligation to make a speech before officially taking office. Then the new president is escorted to the Palais Rochetin, and is introduced to every government branch by the Presidential Chief of Security.