Narikaton and Darnussia

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August 5561

Zum Clenonberg set to win against Kommenda in VVP polling low 

President Kommenda at a townhall-meeting explaining his policy priorities

It seems that in the general elections in 5562, the VVP is set to loose once again and continue its instability streak of the past few decades. While the VVP according to polls is still going to be the largest faction in the Nationalrat but a small margin, they're going to loose quite a few seats. This is attributed due to the bad public reputation the Kommenda government has gained over his first term and a diversifying Dual Republican political landscape. For the first time in quite a while not only the VVP, the liberal DRP and the further left SDP are going to contest the election but also a number of new parties - the most surprising fact- they're supposed to win seats in parliament.
Looking to the right, the Thallerist Conservative Party is looking to garner some votes from the weakened VVP and some disgruntled right-wing rural voters. Additionally another party is trying to establish themselves among this voter pool; the Dundorfnational Party, a Pan-Dundorfian nationalist party focused on ethnic politics including the usage of a more defamtory language for other cultural groups as well as advocating for increased international isolationism. Their chairman, Ralf Freiherr von Vaut recently caused controversy by blaming the beiteynese people for the struggles of the poor working man in the Dual Republic, they've also coined the slogan "The Dual Republic has to die for us to live." Obviously these sentiments arent very popular and they're not likely to be part of any governing coalition, nevertheless they're set to enter parliament for the first time. 

Ralf Freiherr von Vaut

In the center, the Landbund, a farmers union turned political party is trying to consolidate the political forces in rural Darnussia, they're running on a centrist-reformist platform mostly focussed on the increasingly worsening food price crisis and the nation-wide phenomenon of "farmer-dying." They're blaming the VVP for this crisis and have specifically rejected the idea of forming a government with Kommenda should he be awarded with another term by the voters, instead they've made allures to the Democratic Republic Party whose presidential candidate Vanessa zum Clenonberg is currenty leading the polls in a head-to-head race against incumbent Kommenda. With the Landbund mostly being based in the Darnussian part of the Dual Republic, their narik pondon is the - a little more leftist - Groene Boeren Bond which is decisively more focused on environmental issues, they're one of the few parties supporting green energy initiatives instead of oil, they've made headlines with their suggestions that the oil-business is making Narikaton and Darnussia a authoritarian petro-state which has landed them in hot-waters with their VVP opponents more than once. 

Vanessa zum Clenonberg at a charity gala

On the left side of the political specturm we can find the already well-known SDP. They've gained a reputation for their short-lived political achievement of beating the infamously incompetent Hjalmar Eimer by gaining support among their primary enemy, the VVP, and forming a government with the rebel Heinrich Karner. This experiment certainly hasnt worked out for them as they might have wanted it to. Which political pundits mostly attribute to VVP media meddling, as the SDP actually has made progress by establishing what some might call the fundamentals of a welfare state. It lead to them loosing massively in the next election with most of their voters returning to their origin-party the DRP. Current polls show them to hold their position as a small-sized party, pontentially loosing some seats to the Boeren Bond. At the far-left end we have the newly formed Revolutionairen. A party which is currently being watched by the domestic intelligence agency due to their advocacy for the abolishment of global capitalism and the imprisonment of 'corrupt VVP cleptocrats.' Their main point of influence are the ongoing left-wing and farmer protests against the Kommenda food policies, a point of contest in which every other party than the VVP is currently opposing Kommenda.