20RP12, For the first question I meant does the candidate says that himself, or he gets nominated by his party? Like they hold a meeting or so to choose the one to be their candidate?
The process is like this:
1. You announce your intention to become your party's presidential nominee.
2. Party "members" vote in primary elections which of the
potential nominees they prefer. This determines how many delegates every candidate receives for the nominating convention.
3. The candidate who won a majority of the delegates in the primary elections is formally nominated at the party convention and hence becomes his party's presidential nominee for the election.
4. The presidential nominee chooses a vice presidential nominee who is then formally nominated by the convention as well.
Also see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_primaryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_nominating_conventionStrictly speaking, you don't have to be a member of a party and go through this process to become a presidential candidate. You could also do it as an "Independent" candidate who doesn't belong to any of the political parties. These candidates usually don't have any chance of winning the election though. Only the Republican and the Democratic nominees do.
For the third question, what I meant is that here the Freedom and Justice party nominated a candidate to be theirs, but he was threatened that he can't be accepted, so they nominated another one as a spare in the case the primary candidate didn't get accepted. This was in the pre-elections period that all the candidates weren't yet accepted as official nominations.
This isn't how it is done in the United States. In the end, there is only one presidential nominee and one vice presidential nominee. Normally, presidential nominees aren't threatened to be "rejected". If a nominee withdraws or even dies, the party would have to nominate a replacement candidate as quickly as possible. Usually this doesn't happen though.
