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Tied! DSDP and NDZP Run Even in 5650 Federal Election
October 5650

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The Dundorfian Bundestag and the Federal Chancellery in Dunburg

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Dunburg - The vote counting is almost done nation wide (99.5% of stations reporting) and we're still unable to project whether the DSDP, the Social Democrats, or the NDZP, the Hosian-Democrats, will win a plurality of the votes and a plurality of seats in the Bundestag. The first exit poll yesertday evening exactly predicted this outcome: DSDP and NDZP were tied at 26%, followed by the Greens at 15%, an impressive result for them, the Liberal-Democratic list (TLD) falling to 14% from 19%, the Dundorfian Social Union (pragmatic Socialists) conquering a total 9% of the votes, the Red Front (Communists) falling to 7%. The regionalist conservative party, JSU, got 35% of the votes in the state of Julstoch, a record, translated to roughly 2% nation-wide.

In Dundorf, it's very important to know which party comes first because traditionally the Federal Presidents designates the leader of the largest party as Chancellor, and tasks them to form a majority coalition in th Bundestag. As of now, it looks like that the DSDP will get a very narrow victory over the NDZP, perhaps the closest results in all of Dundorf's democratic history, and put an end to the second Chancellery of Erica Kleinfelder, who was Chancellor from 5637 to 5641 and again since 5646 to today. Among the minor parties, it looks like the Greens' increased activism, especially around education, paid off: they surged to third place replacing the TLD, and among the left-wing parties, the more moderate JSU surpassed the DRF, which was unable to pass the threshold in three out of five states, damaging the size of their Bundestag delegation. JSU, which vehemently opposed the Greens' education reform proposal, also surged in their own state, reaching 37%, a sign that the population of Julstoch don't wish the National School of Public Administration to become effective.

So, if the result remains unaltered when the last polling stations are reported, former Chancellor Jorg Berger of the DSDP will be designated Chancellor by President Juliane Offenbach, thanks to a 0,3% victory over the NDZP, and he will be in charge of building a governing coalition that gains the trust of at least 316 members of the Bundestag.

Our sources on the ground in Lutzenkamp, Julstoch are saying that there are increasing rumors that the JSU, strong in its success, wants to hold a special convention, in order to discuss plans to federalize the party and create a new conservative party with strongly pro-regionalist stances. JSU Leader Bernarde Osschler commented: 

I don't know anything about these rumors, but certainly the good people of Dunlake, Oderveld, Grozvic and Chontalen lack a very strong regionalist voice like Julstoch has! Julstoch has an higher turnout than the other four States because people in this state feel represented by the JSU, which keeps in mind local problems first, Dunburg infighting second. The same can't be said about the other four states, where the national parties dominate. That is because, in the center-right camp, NDZP is a good partner, but they are too focused on national matters, and the TLD sometimes wakes up and decides that it likes to govern with the crazy greens and the big-government socialists, so that's a turn-off for many conservative people.

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Election Results (+/- 5646):

• DSDP (center-left): 28,339,603 (26,4%; +0,9%) | 172 seats
  
• NDZP (center-right): 27,945,926 (26,1%; -0,6%) | 171 seats
  
• GPP (center-left, ecologist): 16,253,569 (15,2%; +4%) | 97 seats
  
• TLD (center/center-right): 14,973,350 (14%; -4%) | 84 seats
  
• DSU (left-wing): 9,783,285 (9,1%; +1,6%) | 57 seats
  
• DRF (far-left): 7,407,261 (6,9%; -1,8%) | 31 seats
  
• JSU (right-wing, regionalist): 2,447,101 (2,3%, +0,1% in Dundorf; 35,4% in Julstoch) | 18 seats