Dundorf

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Forty Years Later, the Center-Right Bloc Returns to Power
October 5730 (backdated)

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Dundorf's Hosian-Democratic party NDZP and its allies secure an historic victory in both Presidential and Legislative election.

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DUNBURG - In 5690, a renewed center-left bloc led by a young Matthias Werner won the Federal Election months after Lorena Oberlitz secured for DSDP the Presidential seat. That was also the first election in which the Pirate Party partecipated in, siphoning several votes away from the center-right bloc for the years to come, according to some of our nation's top political experts. Since then, Dundorf has several coalition governments: center-left bloc, NDZP-led Grand Coalitions, DSDP-led Grand Coalition, but never again a proper center-right bloc, composed by the traditional members of the alliance NDZP (New Dundorfian Centre Party), TLD (Team Liberal-Democrats) and KBP (Conservative Federal Party).

That will change following this election: the 'Blue Bloc', as it has been informally named, is projected to gain a majority of the seats in the Bundestag and the NDZP is poised to become the first party of the nation, meaning the era of Matthias Werner and Renate Reinhardt's DSDP newfound de-facto domination is coming to an end. Not only that: in the first round of the Presidential election, held simultaneously with the Bundestag election, the unity center-right candidate, Friedrich von Schirach (TLD), is projected to narrowly win, defeating all expectation for a hotly contested second round between him and outgoing President Gertrude von Koepf (DSDP).

Come next month, Dundorf will have a TLD President residing in Karlottenberg Schloss and a likely NDZP Chancellor taking hold of the Federal Chancellery, marking an extraordinary comeback after forty years. What made this comeback possible is most likely the complete collapse of the Pirate Party: leaderless after Dr. Engel's resignation and experiencing constant internal turnoil. The Pirates are locked out of the threshold in three states and will bring to Dunburg a delegation of just 20 members, more than halved compared to 5726. The DSDP also reported losses, extremely common for a party who commanded several governments in the past decades, losing about 1.3 percentage points and five seats in the Bundestag. Clearly, Social-Democratic losses have not been as dramatic as the Pirates, but nevertheless it allowed for the NDZP to regain the first place: eleven more seats and 1.2 more percentage points than four years ago.

The big winner of the night, the party that propelled the 'blue bloc' more than anyone else is the Conservative Federal Party: winning 11% of the votes and thirteen more seats than 5726, meaning they have successfull recovered after sluggish showings in the past decade. Political commentators say that the reason of their success if that right-leaning more populist voters who once called the Pirates their home, have returned to vote the KBP for its fiscally-conservative and populist anti federal government message. The Liberal-Democrats also reported an excellent result, continuing to increase their vote share and reaching a record 16%, just 4 points shy of the DSDP.
Other parties on the left are rather stable, GPP lost a tiny fraction of the votes, losing only 1 seat, and DRF increased marginally, securing the spot as 4th largest party.

Now, a Presidential transition will happen in the following months, meaning the formation of the new government may be slower: outgoing President von Koepf called Mr. von Schirach to congratulate him and officially invited him to visit Karlottenberg Schloss, which will become his new home. People close to the President-elect described the phone call as 'warm' and described Mrs. von Koepf's tone as 'gracious'. The sources also confirmed that the President-elect intends to appoint a NDZP figure to lead the next Federal Government. Mr. von Schirach also publicly praised the outgoing President for having secured a renewal of relations with Xsampa.

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5730 Dundorfian Presidential Election

Turnout: 91.020.792 (81,3% | +9,7% vs 5725)

Friedrich von Schirach, TLD (endorsed by NDZP and KBP): 45.538.660 (50,1%) - elected Federal President
Gertrude von Koepf, DSDP (endorsed by GPP): 32.603.531 (35,8%) - incumbent defeated
Carolina Roth (DRF): 12.878.601 (14,1%)

5730 Dundorfian Legislative Election

Turnout: 90.112.079 (80,5% | = vs 5725)

New Dundorfian Centre Party (NDZP): 20.266.262 | 22,5% and 147 seats (+1,2% and +11)
Social-Democratic Party of Dundorf (DSDP): 18.190.389 | 20,2% and 131 seats (-1,3% and -5) 
Team Liberal-Democrats (TLD): 14.589.218 | 16,2% and 104 seats (+0,6% and +6) 
Dundorfian Red Front (DRF): 11.466.843 | 12,7% and 80 seats (+0,3% and +3) 
Green Party for the Planet (GPP): 10.397.047 | 11,5% and 74 seats (-0,4% and -1) 
Conservative Federal Party (KBP): 10.143.808 | 11,3% and 74 seats (+1,7% and +13) 
Pirate Party of Dundorf (PPD): 5.058.512 | 5,6% and 20 seats (-2,1% and -27)