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Ils n'éliront pas un chef qui est contre la loi.

Ils n'éliront pas un chef qui est contre la loi.
They will not elect a leader who is against the law.
From Lesson 136:The future simple (-re verbs)·French

Questions & Answers about Ils n'éliront pas un chef qui est contre la loi.

How did we get the future tense form éliront from the verb élire?
Élire (to elect) ends in -re. To form the future tense for these verbs, you just drop the final e to get your stem (which is élir- here). Then, you add the future ending for ils, which is -ont. That gives us éliront!
Does the negative ne ... pas go in a different place in the future tense?
No, it works exactly the same as in the present tense! The ne (which shortens to n' before a vowel) and the pas simply go on either side of the conjugated verb, giving us n'éliront pas.
Doesn't un chef usually mean a cook?
In English, we borrowed this word specifically to mean a head cook (which is short for chef de cuisine). But in French, un chef simply means a boss, chief, or leader in almost any context, such as a political or workplace leader.
Why do we use the word qui instead of que here?
We use qui when it acts as the subject of the verb that comes right after it. Here, qui is doing the action of being against the law (the verb est). If there were a different subject right after it (like in "the leader that we like"), you would use que instead.

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