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Just In: Lorena Oberlitz Announces Bid for Federal President
June 5689

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Former Chancellor Lorena Oberlitz (DSDP) in her family's restaurant in Oberegg, Dunlake.

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Oberegg, Dunlake - Dundorf's first ever direct Presidential election after 66 years is set to take place in February next year, but we already know the name of one candidate, a name that has been speculated for months: Lorena Oberltz. The former Chancellor just announced through a video shared on social media her candidacy for the office of Federal President, representing the Social-Democratic Party (DSDP), the party she currently leads as the main opposition party to the NDZP-led center-right cabinet. In the video, shot at her family’s long-standing restaurant in Oberegg, Dunlake, she says her candidacy aims to “give a voice to the voiceless.” She presents herself as an “experienced, world-respected leader” who is also “down to earth, as the daughter of two cooks,” and closes with a final appeal to voters: “I’m ready to offer my experience to this country, hoping to lead all of us into the next century.”  
Our top political analyst Karl Merkel said about this video:

It's clear that she already envisions two terms (aka 10 years) in her future and that she is positioning to be a transition President to the next century. It's interesting that as a former Foreign Minister who helped broker the Kundrati normalization, she puts internationalism as a defining trait. Her team clearly thinks it could be a winning issue.

Presidential candidates need to obtain either 32 signatures from elected members of the Bundestag (5% of the members) or get the signatures of at least 5% the registered voters in each State in order to file their candidacy to the Bundeswahlkommission (BWK - Federal Electoral Commission). Mrs. Oberlitz has obtained 156 signatures from Members of the Bundestag to launch her campaign, meaning that she enjoys the backing of the entire Social-Democratic group in the Bundestag, even from the most "radical" wing of the party led by Mr. Matthias Werner. At the moment there are no other candidates, but every party is expected to find a nominee by the end of the summer. Oberlitz, by jumping in so early, and enjoying high rates of popularity, might be already the favorite to win next year's election.