2010 ED] CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF SEYCHELLES [CAP 167
4. An election to the office of President shall be held so as
to begin —
(a) where the President is in office after the
beginning of the period of four months ending
on the date when the President's term of office
expires by the effluxion of time, during the first
three months of that period; and
(b) in any other case, during the period of three
months beginning with the date when the office
became vacant or a Proclamation under article
52A was made.
5. Subject to paragraphs 6 and 7, a person shall not be
elected to the office of President unless he has received more
than fifty percent of the votes in the election and the necessary
number of ballots may, subject to the election being discontinued
and recommenced in accordance with an Act, be held in
accordance with the direction of the Electoral Commission to
achieve that result.
6. Where immediately prior to the day appointed for
holding an election to the office of President, there is only one
candidate for election and that candidate has, since the day
immediately following the day of the closing of nominations,
been the sole candidate, no ballot shall be held and that candidate
shall be declared by the Electoral Commission to be elected to
the office of President.
7.(1) Where on the day immediately following the day of
closing of nominations for the election of President more than
one candidate stand nominated for election and on the day of
election only one candidate stands nominated by reason of the
withdrawal of nominations of other candidates, or no candidate
stands nominated by reason of the withdrawal of nomination of
all the candidates, the election shall be postponed and a further
period of not less than seven days shall be allowed for
nomination
of
other
candidates.
(2) Where on the day immediately following the day of
closing of nominations for the election of President one or more
candidates stand nominated for election and one or more of them
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death of
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