2019 Soltenish Presidential Election

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2019 Soltenish Presidential Election
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456 votes up for election
229 votes needed to win
Registered115,901,538
(Increase1.3 pp)
Turnout92,702,152 (80.0%)
(Steady)
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Nominee Aurelio D'Libero Mateo Benzi
Party Confederal Union Social Democratic
Alliance United Left
Delegate count 299 157
Popular vote 50,088,295 41,303,386
Percentage 54.0% 44.6%
Home republic Colpi Almarence
Republics carried 14 3

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     Republics won by Aurelio D'Libero      Republics won by Mateo Benzi

President before election

Mateo Benzi
Social Democratic

Elected President

Aurelio D'Libero
Confederal Union

The 2019 Soltenish presidential election was the 8th sexennial presidential election, held on Wednesday, July 10, 2019. Confederal Unionist candidate Aurelio D'Libero soundly defeated incumbent Social Democratic president Mateo Benzi by 9.4 points, the largest margin since Raimondo Erixani's landslide victory in 1989.

Benzi's unpopularity and poor relations with Social Democratic leaders encouraged an unsuccessful intra-party challenge by Viernese senator Giacomo Piumapetra. Meanwhile, the Confederal Union nominated the incumbent president of Colpi, Audrelio D'Libero, who faced challenges from former Sinoran senator Giorgio Cespuglio and former foreign minister, Alberto Razelli. D'Libero was nominated with the support of 59.8% of the party's membership at the party's convention in Carez. In a gesture of unity, D'Libero promised Cespuglio and Razelli considerable roles in his administration.

D'Libero campaigned for increased defense spending, economic reforms aimed at reducing inequality, crime reduction, and a reduction of inflation. His campaign was aided by public dissatisfaction with Benzi, the January bombings in Carez, and a worsening economy marked by high inflation. Benzi attacked D'Libero as a dangerous right-wing extremist, and warned that D'Libero would cut public healthcare and pension programs in order to pay for his higher defense and policing budget.

D'Libero won the election by a landslide, taking 299 presidential votes and 54.0% of the popular vote to Benzi's 44.6%. Benzi carried just three republics (Vierna, Culmia, and his home republic of Almarence). All other candidates took 1.3% of the popular vote. Due to this election being the first loss by the United Left alliance since 1995, some scholars have considered this election a political realignment that brought the Confederal Union party back into relevancy.