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Like BusterPorn already said, he is elected by the Cardinals. All Cardinals are locked in a room together, and they discuss who is to be the next pope. One of the cardinals will become the new pope. While they choose there is black smoke rising and once they chose who it will be the smoke changes to white so the public knows they have a new pope.
As far as I know they work on a unanimous decission (man my english spelling sucks ass) on who it will be, and thus it tends to take rather long, has taken multiple days in the past as far as I know.
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