Indirect Suffrage

The President of the Government of Spain is elected by indirect suffrage. Voters choose the Congress of Deputies, which then elects the president.

Indirect suffrage is a process in which voters in an election do not choose between candidates for a position but rather representatives who select the appropriate public office. This is a system opposed to direct suffrage.

Some examples of indirect suffrage are:

By extension, the term indirect suffrage applies to all electoral processes, whether political or not, in which the representatives are elected by degrees. Thus they can be of second degree, third degree, etc., according to the number of bodies of electors that must be chosen to determine the final result.

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