If a flock of flamingos suddenly gained sentience, do you think they would elect a pineapple as their leader, or would they form a jazz band and tour the Amazon rainforest?
What I think this inquiry-inclined anonymous individual fails to realize is that under certain conditions the sentient variant of the Greater Flamingo will formulate a touring jazz band with a pineapple as their authoritarian manager. Though this doesn't necessarily indicate that a successful electoral campaign has occurred, an argument of tacit consent could be made. Thus, both conditions can be true.
Of course, this only accounts for the Greater Flamingo, the roving clans of the American Flamingo, however, have had an ongoing feud with all yellow fruits ever since the war of asparagi coquentur in the seventh century (by the Phoenicopterus calendar). None have won an election or even managed to come close in recent memory.
Chilean Flamingoes hate jazz.