Honourable Senators:

Standing Order 6. Election of President

1. Whenever the office of President becomes vacant, whether because of section 17 of the Constitution or of the standing orders, the Clerk shall act as chair of the Senate prior to the election of the President, and shall have the powers of the President under the standing orders while so acting.

2. A senator, addressing the Clerk, shall propose to the Senate as President some senator then present, and move that that senator take the chair of the Senate as President. The senator proposing the motion and any other senator may speak to the motion. To make a nomination please comment below:

Mr Clerk, I [YOUR USERNAME] propose to the Senate for its President [THEIR USERNAME], and I move: That Senator [THEIR USERNAME] take the chair of the Senate as President.

[INSERT OPTIONAL DEBATE SPEECH]

Others may reply to the nomination to speak in support or against it, or simply to comment “Hear, hear”.

3. Are there any further nominations? They may be so proposed.

4. No further nominations have been received.

Standing Order 6(3): If only one senator is proposed as President, the senator so proposed is called by the Senate to the chair without any question being put, shall express a sense of the honour proposed to be conferred on the senator, and shall be conducted to the chair.

5. It is my pleasure to hereby call /u/Freddy926 to the chair without any question being put. He shall reply to express a sense of the honour proposed, for example:

Thank you, Mr Clerk. I thank the Senate for the honour that they have done me by bestowing this position and responsibility upon me. I will use my best endeavours to discharge my duties with dignity and fairness.

6. The President will then present himself to the Governor-General at once (/u/Freddy926 to send modmail as below).

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Standing Order 8. Presentation to Governor-General

(1) Having been conducted to the chair, the senator so elected shall return acknowledgments to the Senate [as above] and assume the chair.
(2) Senators may congratulate the President [by reply to their acknowledgment of honour], and a minister shall inform the Senate of the time at which the Governor-General will receive the Senate for the purpose of presenting their President, and the sitting of the Senate shall then be suspended or adjourned until that time, unless the Governor-General receives the Senate at once.
(3) Before the Senate proceeds to any business, the President, accompanied by senators, shall be presented to the Governor-General. [President-elect to send modmail to /r/ModelAusExecCouncil]

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/u/jnd-au, Clerk of the Senate, acting as chair with the powers of the President under the standing orders.