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Jörg Berger Selected as New DSDP Leader
July 5639

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Secretary Berger with former Chancellor and outgoing DSDP Leader Valentine Leesdorf.

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Oberegg, Dunlake - The Party Congress of the DSDP has ended today with the election of Jörg Berger, a Bundestag member representing Oderveld, and the youngest ever secretary of the party, he turned 34 just last month. The race for secretary was to succeed the retiring Valentine Leesdorf, former Chancellor and current Foreign Minister in the Kleinfelder government; and was contested by several people: the Minister-President for Grozvic, Mrs. Anna Frostenburg, the former Speaker of the Bundestag, Mr. Hans Friedrich Paulsen and Narik Minority Activist Ms. Paula Van Cleef (other than Mr. Berger himself). Berger, after his victory in the second round against Minister-President Frostenburg, has now a big duty ahead of him: lead the party, who suffered a loss of votes four years ago, to victory in the next September election. The current opinion polls says that the two big parties, DSDP and NDZP, are tied and both lost votes respectively to their smaller counterparts: the surveys in the past months indicated a growing trend for the DRF, the democratic-socialist party to DSDP's left, and for the TLD, a centrist liberal party who is eroding some NDZP support. Now, the situation seems stable, but experts and pundits warn that the election campaign "can change everything".