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DSDP Wins, but Center-Left Coalition Loses Majority
October 5722

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A voter in Grozvic.

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Dunburg - After eight years, voters put an end to the rule of the center-left coalition led by Chancellor Renate Reinhardt, but voters still rewarded her party, DSDP, with the title of largest party, despite a very little erosion in popular support. Among the coalition partners, it was the democratic-socialist DRF which lost the most votes and seats, alongside some minor losses by the Social-Democrats, while the Greens obtained a very small improvement compared to four years ago. Overall, the coalition passes from 317 seats, a majority of one seat, to 306 seats, a number that is not sufficient to elect a new Federal Chancellor.

In the center-right, the NDZP continued its decline for another election, falling to a new low of 17%, but its center-right partners saw significant improvements: the liberal party TLD obtained well over 15% of the votes in their all-time high and the conservative ruralist KBP improved significantly after years of decline, obtaining 1,8% more votes and eleven new seats in the Bundestag. Despite this good showing, the center-right still remains very, very far from achieving a majority in the Bundestag. The Pirates also saw a minor improvement but Dr. Engel's party remains a stable political force, and it is an estabilished fact, according to our political expert Stefan Cornaelius, that its strong niche and its stability has disrupted Dundorf's traditional coalition politics.

President Werner, according to sources, has acknowledged that the incumbent government has lost its majority but remains committed to entrusting Mrs. Reinhardt with a third mandate as Chancellor, with the most probable choices for a coalition being a 'traffic-light' agreement between DSDP, TLD and GPP or a 'left-leaning GroKo' with DSDP, NDZP and GPP. For what it's worth, also our own Stefan Cornaelius says that the most probable and most viable choices for a stable government are what Karlottenberg Schloss is thinking.

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5722 Dundorfian Federal Election: 

Turnout: 87.744.860 (77.7%, -2.5% vs 5718) 

Social-Democratic Party of Dundorf (DSDP): 20.388.311 | 23.2% and 147 seats (-0.8% and -6) 
New Dundorfian Centre Party (NDZP): 14.973.988 | 17.1% and 108 seats (-1.5% and -10) 
Team Liberal-Democrats (TLD): 13.523.981 | 15.4% and 97 seats (+0.8% and +6) 
Green Party for the Planet (GPP): 11.761.247 | 13.4% and 85 seats (+0.1% and +2) 
Dundorfian Red Front (DRF): 10.313.644 | 11.8% and 74 seats (-1.3% and -7) 
Pirate Party of Dundorf (PPD): 9.825.238 | 11.2% and 70 seats (+0.7% and +4) 
Conservative Federal Party (KBP): 6.958.451 | 7.9% and 49 seats (+1.8% and +11)