2006 Saren presidential election
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The 2006 Saren presidential election was the 12th regularly scheduled decennial presidential election in Saren history, and the 52nd Saren presidential election overall. As has only happened on three occasions, the Saren public was not offered a choice of candidates to elect a President from. This occurred due to the broad consensus within Parliament behind former Prime Minister, Pila Ebadeldar. This marked the first time in over two hundred years that a Saren President has been elected effectively unopposed.
As with previous presidential elections, national news focused on distinguished professors, athletes and senior politicians of broad parliamentary consensus. Over a dozen distinguished Sarens made some suggestion of a candidacy, though none were nominated by the deadline in January 2006.
In mid-2005 expectations had arisen that member's nominated in the year's President's Day honors would include a possible cross-party candidate and Prime Minister Berar Hadiciar implied this would be the case. By November of 2005, the Labor Parliamentary Caucus began drafting former Prime Minister Pila Ebadeldar and suggesting she was the correct, desirable unifying figure to elevate to the role. In early December, the Prime Minister backed her being nominated and by mid-January, half of the Opposition benches indicated she would win their support. Senator Santon Guterressi and former Aegyptian Independent MP Bliyamak Jershan were both nominated by some members of the House throughout January. On January 30, 2006, the Chief Justice of the High Court announced that three nominations were registered and valid. Parliament held it's first secret ballot on February 6, 2006 and Pila Ebadeldar was the only candidate with sufficient consensus to progress to the May election. Both other candidates withdrew before a second ballot could be held the week after to determined if either of them had sufficient support to join her.
Accordingly, on February 13, 2006, after Parliament resolved that there were no other candidates warranting debate, the Saren Electoral Commission declared former Prime Minister Pila Ebadeldar elected unopposed.