Chapter 111: Eight Special Zones

The President of the Federation, in accordance with the Federal Constitution, is not only the head of the Federal Government, but also the chairman of the Supreme Military Council of the Federation and the Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Army.

The screen shows a black presidential candidate giving a public speech to the public from a rally podium.

Jiang Ping listened carefully. These presidential candidates have made speeches that have been nothing more than promoting their platforms to the people of the Federation, making all sorts of verbal promises that they don't know if they can be kept, and at the same time belittling and ridiculing other opponents in order to elevate themselves.

Seeing Jiang Ping listening to the speech of this black presidential candidate, Amanda smiled and said: "Don't take these candidates' words seriously, haven't you heard a sentence, a politician is an actor or a liar." ”

After a pause, she glanced at the black presidential candidate on the screen, and said, "Besides, the federal presidential candidates put forward by the African Special Administrative Region have always been unpopular, and there is no precedent for successfully being elected as the federal president." ”

Jiang Ping also knows a little about some of the procedures for the federal presidential election.

At the time of the establishment of the Federation, although the state system was abolished, several special administrative regions were established on the original home planet, Earth.

These administrative zones are the China Special Administrative Region, the North American Special Administrative Region, the South American Special Administrative Region, the European Union Special Administrative Region, the Russian Special Administrative Region, the African Special Administrative Region, the Indian Special Administrative Region and the Arab Special Administrative Region.

In the five-year federal presidential election, each of the eight special districts can nominate a presidential candidate to run in the federal presidential election, which is enshrined in the federal constitution. Other than that, the presidential candidates put forward by any other group party are not recognized.

Of course, the Federal Constitution stipulates that every federal citizen over the age of 18 has the right to vote and to be elected, so federal citizens can also participate in the federal presidential election in their personal capacity.

In fact, every federal presidential election year, the Federal Election Commission receives a large number of applications from federal citizens to run for election, and there is no reason for the Election Commission to reject such applications. Such candidates are called free candidates.

But in fact, the participation of such free candidates in the general election can only be regarded as a farce for the vast majority. The federal presidential election needs a huge amount of financial support, and a huge amount of advertising bombardment propaganda in various media to let the people know and be familiar with you as a presidential candidate, so that they can vote for you. It takes various candidates to travel from place to place, give speeches, solicit votes, and sometimes in the morning the candidate is on this planet, and in the afternoon, he has already reached another planet many light years away.

And most of these campaign funds come from donations from the public and corporations. The first choice for donations from the public and consortia is the statutory presidential candidates put forward by the eight SARs, which have a greater chance of victory, rather than free candidates.

Liberal candidates do not raise enough campaign funds, do not have enough exposure and popularity among the media and the public, and the chances of winning the election are slim to none, and there is no possibility that any consortium will be willing to invest in them, unless these free candidates are super-rich themselves and spend their own money to play with them. However, in this way, in the face of those statutory presidential candidates who have huge resources and backgrounds, there is still a congenital weakness, and there is basically no possibility of winning the election.

In fact, since the establishment of the Federation, the President of the Federation has always been elected among the presidential candidates put forward by the eight special regions, and there is no precedent for a free candidate to be successfully elected.

Hearing Amanda say that the presidential candidate launched by this African SAR is unpopular, Jiang Ping didn't know much about this, so he asked the other party: "So which candidate does the instructor think is the favorite in this federal presidential election?" ”…,

Amanda analyzed slowly: "This time's popularity, not surprisingly, is the presidential candidate launched by the Huaxia Special Administrative Region, the European Special Administrative Region and the Russian Special Administrative Region, and the presidential candidate launched by the Indy Special Administrative Region this time is also relatively optimistic, and there is a possibility of becoming a dark horse in an upset." ”

Jiang Ping reminded her: "You seem to have forgotten the candidates of the North American Special Administrative Region, isn't this the usual favorite in the presidential election?" ”

Amanda shook her head and said: "Don't forget, the current president is the presidential candidate launched by the North American District of America, and he has been re-elected for one term and served as the federal president for ten years. According to the federal constitution, the North American District is automatically disqualified from putting forward presidential candidates this time. ”

Jiang Ping thought about it at this time, smiled hehe, and said, "Instructor, it seems that you know all about this." ”

Amanda shrugged her shoulders and said helplessly: "I am bombarded with these federal presidential election news every day, and I can't understand it." ”

After a pause, she suddenly sighed with emotion: "Young man, you haven't voted in the general election, have you?" Instructor Xiangben has been through it four times, and he is really old. ”

Jiang Ping glanced at the other party and said, "How can the instructor say that, I think the instructor is only in his early twenties." ”

Amanda listened very much in her heart, but she scolded with a smile: "You kid, your mouth is getting sweeter and sweeter, the instructors are already thirty-five years old, where do you still look like a big girl in her early twenties." ”

Jiang Ping said: "Don't you let people tell the truth?" The instructor just looks so young! ”

Amanda was proud when she heard this, but she glanced at the other party and said, "If you talk nonsense again, see if this instructor doesn't tear up your mouth!" ”

Speaking of this, she smiled and replied to her as an iceberg beauty, and then asked him seemingly casually: "Jiang Ping, have any clubs in the military academy approached you recently?" ”

Jiang Ping was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't know why the other party asked this, and said, "The club is looking for me?" No, I don't. ”

Amanda glanced at him and said meaningfully, "It's good if you don't have it." As a cadet, I still focus on the training course and less on messing with the messy political stuff. ”

Jiang Ping didn't understand a little, but just responded casually. I wanted to ask more, but Amanda obviously didn't want to talk about it anymore and diverted the topic.

After a short time, the two of them finished eating and went downstairs and left.

When leaving, Jiang Ping deliberately glanced at the place where Nakamura Hidewa was sitting just now, and found that he and the beautiful instructor were no longer there.

Not long after returning to his dormitory, he was about to rest for a while, when Jiang Ping heard a knock on the door, and when he said come in, he saw a person pushing the door and walking in, it was the handsome man Nakamura Hidekazu who he saw just now.

Seeing him come to find him, Jiang Ping was a little surprised in his heart, and secretly said Mo didn't he see himself in the restaurant just now? Isn't there any more gossip again?