Minimum Age for Election as Aiji

The minimum age for election as Aiji is twenty-three. Valasi’s unexpected death left his heir below that age, postponing Tabini’s election until he had passed his twenty-third year and could be elected in his own right.

Eligibility Threshold

The account states the age requirement directly: Valasi’s heir was still short of twenty-three when Valasi died unexpectedly. The rule therefore set an age-based limit on eligibility for election as Aiji; it was not simply a question of political support or succession by inheritance.

Effect on the Succession

The threshold shaped the timing of the transfer of power. The narrative marks the intervening period before reporting that Tabini passed his twenty-third year. Only then, after assembling a temporary coalition, was Tabini elected Aiji in his own right. The age requirement thus forms a concrete boundary between Valasi’s death and Tabini’s accession.