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No, it'd just be giving more incentives for politicians to lie, cheat and steal. If getting a full 100% of the votes means you get to reign for life like a monarch, then the amount of misinformation, buoyed by an industry made infamous by Cambridge Analytica, and aided by PR, Ad agencies, and Facebook, would explode. If that's not enough, politicians can just outright cheat and steal, prevent supporters of their opponent from voting, pervert the existing laws to one's ends, or downright steal the ballot boxes (and tamper with the votes or how they are counted).
It'd magnify the worst of current politics by giving politicians a reward for playing dirty.