Dundorf

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Third Term and New Coalition for Chancellor Leesdorf
January 5632 (backdated)

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Federal Chancellor Valentina Leesdorf in the Bundestag shortly after receiving confidence from the Bundestag for the third term.

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Dunburg - Last September our country had an election and the Dundorfian people punished the two main parties, who have governed for the past eight years in a Grosse Koalition, and rewarded instead smaller parties left and right, one party was rewarded more than the others though, and it is the Green Party for the Planet. Hans Schumacher, GPP's Leader, explained that the party was looking to peel off support the DSDP and some moderate parts of the NDZP by presenting the party as an 'alternative' that can be trusted in a Government, profiting from what pundits and academics define as incumbency fatigue for both the Social-democrats and the Hosian-democrats. Voters liked that pitch, and the Greens were the best improving party in the Bundestag, while parties such as TLD and DRF saw more modest gains.

Chancellor Leesdorf held extensive talks with every party in the Bundestag (except the Thaller Party) to find a new coalition, and was especially interested in including the Greens in the new Cabinet, a strategic move to stop them from "stealing" the DSDP's votes, but also to address the request for change in respect to the DSDP-NDZP coalition (which would still have had a majority despite the losses). After months, Leesdorf has reached an agreement with the Liberals and the Greens, and the three 'traffic-light' parties have been sworn in into Government today. TLD, still identifying as a center-right party has refused to consider a permanent coalition and called this one a 'temporary solution', while the Greens seem more open to the idea of structural work with the DSDP. In the new opposion field, the NDZP will try to profit the crisis that is experiencing the Thaller Party, hoping to get their votes and potentially become the first party, also by virtue of being the main opposition. And it is said that the Hosian-Democrats will try to work more closely with the Julstoch Social Union, a regional-conservative party, in order to cement a center-right alternative coalition. DRF's leader was one of the first to comment, and in this term, will likely challenge the Greens and the DSDP for working with a centre-right party.