From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Runoff voting can refer to: Two-round system, a voting system used to elect a single winner, whereby only two candidates from the first round continue to the second round, where one candidate will win.

The two-round system (also known as the second ballot, runoff voting or ballotage) is a voting method used to elect a single candidate, where voters cast a single vote for their preferred candidate. Any remaining candidate is free to withdraw from the second round.

France is a representative democracy. Public officials in the legislative and executive branches are either elected by the citizens (directly or indirectly) or appointed by elected officials.

Uniquely, Georgia requires a run-off election for state and congressional offices if no candidate wins a majority of the vote in a general election; only Louisiana has a similar requirement, but it operates under a different election system.

France adopted PR at the end of World War II, but discarded it in 1958; it was used for parliament elections in 1986. Switzerland has the most widespread use of proportional representation, which is the system used to elect not only national legislatures and local councils, but also all local executives.

The Prime Minister is appointed by the President, and is responsible to Parliament. The constitutionality of the statutes is checked by the Constitutional Council, members of which are appointed by the President of the Republic, the President of the National Assembly, and the President of the Senate.

Currently, the President of the French Republic is elected to a five-year term in a two-round election under Article 7 of the Constitution: if no candidate secures an absolute majority (including blank and void ballots) of votes in the first round, a second round is held two weeks later between the two candidates who …

President of France

A candidate for an election must be a French citizen, have attained the age of 18 years, be qualified to vote, not be ineligible by reason of criminal conviction or judicial decision, and have a bank account.

The president of France can be impeached by the French Parliament for willfully violating the Constitution or the national laws. The process of impeachment is written in the 68th article of the French Constitution. A group of senators or a group of members of the National Assembly can begin the process.

The first woman elected president of a country was Vigdís Finnbogadóttir of Iceland, who won the 1980 presidential election as well as three others to also become the longest-serving non-hereditary female head of state in history (16 years and 0 days in office).

Despite her lengthy tenure as president, she is not the longest serving President of Iceland. That record is held by her successor, Olafur Ragnar Grímsson, who was president from 1996 to 2016. To date, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is the only woman to ever hold the post of President in Iceland.

Fernández de la Vega was the first woman to take on the functions of the prime minister in the history of Spanish democracy, when, on 24 April 2004, during the first official visit abroad of Spain’s Prime Minister, Zapatero, she presided over the Council of Ministers.

Prime Minister of Spain

Pedro Sánchez

Prime Minister of Spain

Since the mid-1980s two parties dominate the national political landscape in Spain: the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (Spanish: Partido Socialista Obrero Español) and the People’s Party (Spanish: Partido Popular). The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) is a social democratic centre-left political party.

Spain is a democratic monarchy organized under three branches of government: executive, legislative and judicial.

It is incumbent upon the King: To sanction and promulgate the laws. To summon and dissolve the Cortes Generales and to call for elections under the terms provided for in the Constitution. To call for a referendum in the cases provided for in the Constitution.