Presidential Elections
The president is elected by popular vote for a six-year term. An election was last held January 22, 2012 (second round on February 5, 2012). See Finnish presidential election, 2012.
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“Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.”
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