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Democrats manage to win a second election in a row for the first time in over 70 years
22 April 5683 (backdated)



Hundreds, if not thousands, of cyan-coloured waving flags across the Gemun, Niyalma and other cities are reported by various local and national journalists, as the preliminary results from the independent election watchdogs, and the State Electoral Administration report a victory for the governing Democratic People's Party, winning their second election in a row, for the first time in seventy years, with little bit more than 40% of the nation voting for the democrats, with the closest opponent, Socialist People's Party, trailing behind with 38% of the popular vote.

The result was a shocking result of months of tireless campaigning across the nine provinces by both purple and cyan parties, with opinion polling predicting a very close and tight race between the two sides, leaving the kingmaker's position to the new parties, which could enter the Khanate Yuan for the first time in their history. However, the Sunday results showed that the race was not even close, as two blocs had bled, with their 5678 voters fleeing to either the National Conservative Union, the True Path Party, or other minor parties. The biggest loser of the night was the pan-Dovani Horizon, losing almost half of its voters due to the Xsampa debacle, and the ensuing nose-dive of the pan-Dovani and pro-Xsampa politics in Bianjie. On the other side of the aisle, the True Path Party or Shindoto, a self-proclaimed political wing of the Daenist Bianjians, will enter the national legislature for the first time in the party's 12-year history. Nominally centrist, third-way force, many political pundits have stated that Shindoto is likely to join the cyan bloc, and enter the coalition with the democrats, if the latter invite them.

Another major point of the election is the rise of the national conservatives, with NCU getting 6% of the vote, the largest in the party's history, though still far from Gurun's numbers pre-merger. The rise of the NCU is explained by the growing wave of anti-Xsampa sentiment in Bianjie amidst the rift between the two nations, with the natcons presenting themselves as the main and most radical Xsamposceptic voice in the Khanate. However, the election had a smaller, less noticeable story of the anti-Xsampa sentiment, as the party called the Bianjie Sovereignty Party, formed less than a year ago by the members of SPP, who defected from the party amidst the rift, saying that the socialists have "failed to take a stand", prompting them to leave the party. Now, BSP in their first-ever election have won 1,5% of the votes, half of what is required to enter the Yuan, a result also shocking to many.

Still, the historic election night this Sunday has finalised what many on the left have possibly feared the most: a crack in the purple wall, and the subsequent domination of the Socialist People's Party, as the governing cyan forces celebrate their surprising to many experts re-election victory, the first re-election victory in over 70 years, when the then-governing Bianjie Democratic Action came out on top back in 5613, for the last time before SPP rise in Bianjian politics. Now, 70 years later, purple domination over the nation's politics seems to have come to its end, at least for yet another five-year term, as the DPP prepares itself for a series of negotiations with NCU and TPP for Premier Eidu Monggo's second government in office, likely to be even more right-wing, more economically liberal, more conservative and above all, more anti-Xsampa than the previous one, a very scary prospect for some, and a very exciting one for others.



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