You don't have any other measure of getting people into politics besides an election. It also means executing anyone who "loses" an election due to corruption.
Correct. You've identified the paradox of power, and therefore the reason for my goal of making it largely unattractive to anybody who doesn't already have in built popular support.
Granted I also would take a cleaver to universal suffrage and most direct elections regardless
That's not what you did. You made popular support utterly irrelevant because you could lose an election.
If anything you've enshrined that what will happen is that only people who will corrupt the system and become 1 party states will be in power. Dissent will have to lead to executions because it's too dangerous to ever run against anyone at all. Instead, what you will get is people who run sham campaigns against no one.
You don't have any other measure of getting people into politics besides an election. It also means executing anyone who "loses" an election due to corruption.
Correct. You've identified the paradox of power, and therefore the reason for my goal of making it largely unattractive to anybody who doesn't already have in built popular support.
Granted I also would take a cleaver to universal suffrage and most direct elections regardless
That's not what you did. You made popular support utterly irrelevant because you could lose an election.
If anything you've enshrined that what will happen is that only people who will corrupt the system and become 1 party states will be in power. Dissent will have to lead to executions because it's too dangerous to ever run against anyone at all. Instead, what you will get is people who run sham campaigns against no one.