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Matthias Werner Wins Third Term as Chancellor
January 5699 (backdated)

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Chancellor Werner speaking at a DSDP event in Fuchstal.

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Dunburg - Chancellor Matthias Werner was re-elected as Federal Chancellor following a vote in the Bundestag which confirmed him in the office. The vote in Bundestag was postponed two times because two members of the assembly, one of the DSDP and one of the DRF, contracted the flu and couldn't attend any legislative vote. In order to win election as Chancellor in the Bundestag, one appointee must go through the "installation vote", in which 316 votes in favor are required to win. The sum of the members belonging to the parties composing Werner's new coalition amounts exactly to 316 members, meaning the Chancellor could not afford a single defection or he would have lost the vote. The final tally was 316 for the election of Matthias Werner, 311 against, 2 abstained and 2 absent, clearing his path for four more years in the Chancellery.

The new coalition is a center-left government, just like the Werner I cabinet, and is composed by the Social Democratic Party (DSDP), the Green Party (GPP) and the Dundorfian Red Front (DRF). This government will replace the Werner II cabinet, a grand coalition which featured DSDP and GPP, together with the New Dundorfian Centre Party (NDZP). It's the first time in history that the federal government bases its power on 316 votes in Bundestag, the bare minimum necessary to govern, and this could mean potential instability going forward, if ideological differences between the three partners are not addressed properly, as well as difficulty passing the Government's agenda.

The cabinet will be composed as follows:

Federal Chancellor: Matthias Werner (DSDP)
Deputy Federal Chancellor and Defense Minister: Gerda Kempf (DRF)
Foreign Minister: Jens Van Dijk (DSDP)
Interior Minister: Dietrich Werner (DRF)
Finance Minister: Franziska Niedermeyer (GPP)
Justice Minister: Anna Leesdorf (DSDP)
Infrastructure and Energy: Jorg Freiman (GPP)
Healthcare: Dr. Adele Wagner (GPP)
Education: Sandra Wittgenstein (DRF)
Labor and Social Services: Renate Reinhart (DSDP)
Environment, Tourism and Territorial Protection: Simon Osterhaus (GPP)
Food and Agricolture: Harry Dietmar (DSDP)
Science, Research and Technology: Diana Bödeker (DSDP)
Commerce and Industry: Carolina Roth (DRF)