How is Your Leader Chosen?

[Entreum]

Hereditary monarchy. When the old king retires or dies one of the sons (hypothetically daughter but it's never happened) who is most qualified takes up the mantle

[Capitalis Republic]

The CEO is appointed by the board stay on if They do well if not or terminated.

[Hamidiye]

The Sultan picks his successor from his male family.


Sultan Mustafa VI. (right) and crown prince Abdulhamid

[Ermarian]

The Empress (or Emperor) generally designates their own successor. In the past this was frequently a close relative (and in the more distant past, it was always the eldest child if one existed); this has fallen out of fashion, but is still permitted.

The successor is subject to approval by the Assembly (the legislative body). If the Assembly rejects the successor, the monarch may either designate another, or call on the Interregnal Council to act as a tiebreaker, which can overrule the Assembly but only unanimously. (The Interregnal Council is nominally a part of the judiciary, but this is the only thing they decide.)

All of this happens while the monarch is still reigning, and may be decades before they abdicate or die.

If a monarch abdicates or dies without a successor having been designated, the Interregnal Council must name one. This hasn't happened in the history of the Council; the last time it happened was nearly eighteen hundred years ago sparking the Pralgadian War of Succession.

[Erystan]

The President is elected directly by Instant Run-Off Voting.

Elections happen every three years, and there is a term limit of two terms. In order to be a candidate, you need to receive support from at least 50,000 citizens through a popular initiative.

[An Islamic World]

The President is appointed by the High Council upon the death or resignation of the current President.

[South Batoko]

We have an election every 2 years, which has 4 staying parties, and 6 parties, namely the biggest non-staying parties from MaVo + CoVo.

Staying parties:

• SunlightSoLi
• Conservi
• FasistGO!
• Trad-Enter

Current non-staying parties:

• PAR
• CDF
• SBOC
• spes
• Autre
• DeSol

[Wochaystein]

Agnatic Primogeniture

[Mivakia]

Formerly a national election, but President Antonin Železný dissolved that institution.

[Rojava Free State]

Our prime minister is the elected leader of his or her political party, and becomes prime minister when that political party wins a majority of parliamentary seats. Party members are voted on democratically by the citizens of each district of Rojava.

[Deltanium]

The King/Queen is chosen after the death of the previous monarch and the PM is chosen by national elections.

[Planet Jini]

We have a huge raffle and put everyone's name from each city in a bin, then the winner in each city has their name raffled again, and whoever wins that is king for a year. Then we pick a new ruler the same way. Each year's raffle week is on the 3rd day of month 4. the runner ups get a year's supply of cigars as a reward. If you don't smoke then you can take a trip to the screw you museum

[Marcianus]

Popular vote.

[Hamstan]

Whoever is the current head of the Majority Party in the Senate is Prime Minister until the current government falls or the Majority Party votes him/her out of the position of Party Head.

[Haremm]

The next monarch would be based on hereditary when s/he is in the rightful age of 20, if not then the country would be ruled by a regency council of the Duchies until the next monarch in line for the throne reaches the rightful age.

[Nou Pais Valencia]

My current leader was picked as candidate by his predecessor, as the old President decided to do not run for reelection for a third and last mandate. He accepted and took part and won primary elections by his party members.
Then He won in the Parliamentary elections. As, his party had not had enough seats and vote percent to avoid a second round. He competed and won in a second election among the most voted candidates.
While his party to have a Parlamentarian qualified majority it pacted a new Government coalition.

[Teodorias]

Appointed

[Zitravgrad]

If you are asking about the current Chairman: Appointed by the Workers' Party which was the dominant faction after the Revolution, mainly for his popularity with the common mass and his connection with Armed Forces personnel and the intellectual elites. He managed to capture the attention of most (but not all) interest group in the nation and eliminated his competition in the form of other ideological leaders either with compromise or brute force.

If you are asking about the future Chairperson(s): Election. Less bloodshed now, I guess.

[Solroche]

Crown Princess Véronique Dupont inherited the throne when her parents committed a double-suicide.

At least that's the official version of events.

[Diarcesia]

The leaders after the Monarch are three Triarchs. The Monarch chooses one of the Triarchs as a successor, who gets revealed upon death or retirement.

[Kombinita Socialisma Demokratio]

All who vote and are permitted to do so are the leaders, as we are a direct democracy.

[Blackledge]

Election by citizens.

[Rijekia]

The President of Rijekia is directly elected by the people every five years (assuming he does not call an early election, die, etc).

[Chkalovsk II]

Chkalovskian leaders are elected.

[Auzkhia]

Head of State: Per law and custom of the realm, one becomes Emperor after the previous emperor dies or abdicates, the one is usually the crown prince and the oldest male heir of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, the parliament confirms the crown prince, and in 2012, Archduke Ferdinand became the official heir apparent to the throne.

Head of government: the Imperial Chancellor is usually the head of the governing party in the imperial diet and to be elected as chancellor requires a motion of confidence, this follows the largest party, since if your coalition wins the most seats in the House of Deputies, you command a motion of confidence and then the Emperor officially appoints you as Imperial Chancellor, and the Vice Chancellor is the head of a junior party in the coalition. Coalition governments are the norm since no one party usually wins an absolute majority but a plurality, due to our proportional representation.