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The Voting period, all members cast their ballot for leader. Write-in candidates are only allowed in the first two rounds of voting. A candidate wins the leadership by gaining 60% of all votes casted. If no candidate reaches this mark in the first round, all candidates with 40% or more move onto second round of voting. If a candidate doesn't win after a second round, a candidate wins by winning 55% instead of 60%, and all members can only choose one candidate. A ballot is spoiled if they vote for more than one, don't vote at all, or write-in a candidate.
== Candidates ==
This is the full list of candidate who were nominated during the convention:
-[[Roland Jerome]], nominated and accepted
-Enzo Giraud, nominated and accepted
-Adam Chausson, nominated and accepted, dropped out before voting and supported Roland Jerome
== Voting and End Results ==
== Controversy ==
The NAP Leadership Convention was marred with numerous controversies, including but not limited to the events of the Convention itself. The first major controversy was the pre-mature establishment of a Deputy Leader position. Enzo Giraud declared that he was the interim Head of Party while the Convention convened, even though no such position was established before hand. Those opposed to Giraud saw this as a power grab and a way to undermine the Convention. Giraud denies these claims and says that he was always "the Deputy Head while Barbet led the Party."
Roland Jerome, after announcing his intent to run for Head of Party, was stripped of all his ranking positions within the Party, and even removed as head of the Liberal-Democrat Caucus. The Council declared that "it was a conflict of interest to allow him to keep his rankings during his intent to be Head of Party." Enzo Giraud, on the other hand, never lost his ranking positions, and was temporarily placed as head of the Liberal-Democrat caucus until the Liberal-Democrat Committee overturned the decision and reinstated Jerome syaing "The Party does not have the authority under the Bylaws to strip someone of their chair position for a caucus without approval from the Caucus Committee." The Liberal-Democrat campaigned for Roland JErome following this incident, and declared any member who didn't vote for Jerome would be suspended from the caucus.
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