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Basically, how can we get someone to pull a Louis Napoleon in the 20th or 21st century? Is it an election or an appointment? What would be the international reaction? Who would and could do it? Would they try and reinstall the monarchy?
Thus far the only royalty to win an election as a country's leader has been Bulgaria's last Czar and 48th Prime Minster Simeon Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. But that was as PM, not as President.
Bonus points if the President is a female pretender.
Super bonus points if it's another one of Napoleon Bonaparte's family.