If you thought Ahmadinejad had a tough time at Columbia...

[Elrohir]

Thanks!

And what happens if they all die up to the Secretary of Homeland Security?

Oh! From you link, we can see on the left in the language "Simple English". What's that? American??

The French system is different. If the president dies, the President of the Senate acts as interim president, and cannot hold the office more than 50 days, as the first round of new elections has to be organized 20 to 35 days after the death of the former president.

In case the President of the Senate dies also, in theory the government (prime minister first, then the ministers in the order they appear in the decree creating the government) can make the interim.

But it is very unlikely, because the President of the Senate dies, the Senate would simply elect a new President of the Senate among themselves, and he would act as the interim president.

The main difference is in the US, you cannot have election anytime, you need to wait for the next election year with the vice president being the boss.

Our system as an advantage: the president doesn't have to select someone much worse than him as vice president, so people think twice before trying to assassinate him.

Good question. Simply put, we don't know, since that has never happened. (And they never allow all those people to be in one place, there's always a cabinet member stashed somewhere else) I imagine the assistant secretaries would take charge of their own departments as acting secretaries (Even though they couldn't go up and into the presidential line of succession) and then the state governors would appoint Senators, which they do in time of an emergency. I imagine then the majority party would decide on who the new president of the Senate would be, and then he would become president by default. I'm pretty sure House seats can only be filled by special election, so the Senate route would probably be faster.

That's just my semi-educated guess, though. I'm not a Constitutional scholar, but I'm pretty sure there is no actual procedure - they'd probably figure something out, though, probably along the lines I outlined above.

 

[El_Machinae]

I'd be more worried if you were an American and didn't want Ahmanutjob dead.

Like I said, I'm glad the nutballs were posting that day, instead of ruining the world while 'trying' to help.

 

[Ansar]

I'm sure there's no harm in sending Bush to Iran.

Let's just pretend there's no harm...

 

[George2816]

I'd be more worried if you were an American and didn't want Ahmanutjob dead.

Why because we need to stand with our president no matter what? Whose more evil then?? Death to USA!!!

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

Death to USA!!!

Well, at least you're honest.

 

[Cannae]

If you ask me it seems as if Bush is too scared and doesn't belive in the legitmacy of what he says. If he truly belived what he was doing was for the good then he should go to Iran.

 

[The Yankee]

There's a nice little ironic twist to this story that I think warrants a bit of discussion:



Sounds like Ahmadinejad's visit to Columbia did manage to do something positive, after all. Even if the students in Tehran won't get the right to speak thier minds right away, I think that its made them think at least about what could be possible in thier country. Let's hope one of them goes on to be someone in a position to actually make some change...

It was more ammunition, I'll say. There have already been protests on the very same issue...but since they can go find Ahmadinejad's remarks at Columbia easily, they have another rhetorical bullet for their argument.

 

[malclave]

...picture the scene proposed...

Given Columbia's record, the President would probably have a more reasonable audience in Iran than at Columbia, at least.