Presidential election to be held in February

Provisional President Hasan Çakar has announced that the presidential election for the first official president following the adoption of the current Constitution shall take place on the first Saturday of February, 2018: so 3 February.
Registration of candidates shall begin tomorrow, with aspiring candidates requiring to state their intent through the official organs. Political parties will be required to apply to become part of the National Political Party List, with them being added as soon as possible as soon as it is decided that they abide by the Constitution.
The election shall follow the electoral system established in the Presidential Decree regarding Electoral Matters, signed earlier this year by Provision President Çakar.

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Hasan Çakar decrees electoral law and Supreme Electoral Council

Today, Provisional President Hasan Çakar has written the first decree since the adoption of the new Constitution, establishing the electoral laws for Hasanistan ahead of the upcoming planned presidential election, establishing the Supreme Electoral Council and having dismissed almost all legislation, executive orders and treaties before the date of the adoption of the current Constiution.
The Presidential Decree establishes that presidential elections will use an instant runoff voting system, with candidates requiring 45% or more of vote to win the election. This decision has been made to ensure an element of proportionality. The Supreme Electoral Council has been established, being a new organ of government under the influence of the judiciary.
Now that electoral law has been established, an election can finally be organized. Hasan Çakar says that the election will be declared before the end of next week.
The full Presidential Decree can be read at the Hasani Archives...

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2017 Census completed

The Hasani government has completed the 2017 National Census, which records various data regarding the population of Hasanistan. The census has shown that currently, Hasanistan has a population of 8 registered citizens. This is a minor decrease but the government states that the numbers are successful.
While the results will be private and not available to the public, the Hasani government has declassified certain information from the census. According to the census data, Köktughluk has the largest amount of registered citizens with a total of 3, followed by the capital Batyr which has 2 and then Çobanistan, Körfez-i Bahreyn and Ardajan which all only have a single registered citizen. The province of Srigina has no registered citizens, although this is due to its only previous registered citizen having had his citizenship stripped due to organising a coup attempt earlier this year. The census also shows that the Hasani people have a slim majority of nearly 38%, followed by "Turks" (non-Hasani Turks) who are 25% of the population and Arabs, Šlovedks (an ethnic group originating from Nedland) and Slovaks who all respectively make up almost 13% of the population. As expected, Islam is the dominate religion within Hasanistan by 75%. No differentiation between sects of either Islam or Christianity was recorded within the census.
The provisional head of state Hasan Çakar has issued the following statement following the announcement of the completion of the census:

"The census has been completed and the first stage of the six-month plan is complete. Next, I shall write an electoral law for this country so we can finally hold elections and return to activity. I plan for a presidential election in January 2018 and we may hold local elections in some provinces such as Köktughluk and Ardajan before or after the election." 

-Hasan Çakar, Provisional Head of State

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