What happens to previous democratic rulers?

[Alive]

Pretty sure they don't go back to being a vacant leader. At least your starting ruler doesn't.
Do they just sort of, die off?

[Jewbacca]

Disappear. Simple as that. (s)he will never be seen again. I would give the ability to choose the starting ruler's leader class for democratic, and oligarchic system, but that doesn't implemented (yet)

[Vantose]

They complain endlessly on the news about how they should have won and how the other person is messing up and how they would do a better job!

[Army Pea]

Retired and tweet at the current president

[Vantose]

Wouldn't that be great of they added it to the game

[Peter34]

I've seen former Rulers resuming being Leaders available for work. I tend to play Oligarchy, and often Technocracy, so I often find myself with an idle Scientist after an election.

[pixel_rice_bowl]

Originally posted by Hentaicho:

Pretty sure they don't go back to being a vacant leader. At least your starting ruler doesn't.
Do they just sort of, die off?

Maybe I'm not remembering corectly, but every previous Democratic ruler I've had who loses an election has returned to the leader pool as "available." I remember on at least one occasion they appeared lower in the list of leaders than at the top, which seems counter-intuitive but about what I'd expect from this game's UI.

[Azunai]

i think the starting ruler doesn't have a leader class, so they don't become a leader when they are voted out of office, but they might still show up again as a candidate for the next election when the new guys term ends.

most of the later president candidates will be existing leaders of your empire, though.

i think the game might generate some additional non-leader candidates if you don't have enough active leaders (at least one for each faction in the empire).

[NixBoxDone]

I'd love some event centered around that. A tiny chance that if you fall into negative income a previous leader elect comes out of the woodwork and riles the population up.

Maybe even couple it with a revolt/splitting sector. The old leader rallying the people of his prior home sector into splitting off under the promise of not continuing the excesses of the current corrupt government or some such.

Especially if you as the player influenced the election against them. There should also really be some sort of chance for influencing the eleciton to back-fire. If there is I never noticed. ^^