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Fragmented Bundestag Emerges from the 5654 Federal Election
October 5654 

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The combined DSDP-NDZP vote share fell below 50% for the first time in decades.

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Dunburg - NDZP wins the most votes (by 0.3%) but the DSDP is projected to win more seats, and this is only takeaway from the most fragmented and polarized election Dundorf saw in years: neither the traditional center-left or the center-right won a majority (>316 seats) in the Bundestag, the incumbent Government (DSDP-GPP-DSU) lost its majority, and the parties farthest from the center saw the biggest increases. The two historical parties remain the largest and most important forces in the Bundestag, but their combined vote share hit a low 46%, down from 52% of four years ago, thus making it impossible to form a Grosse Koalition. Also other 'mainstream' parties saw losses, for example the Greens fell to 78 seats from 97, and the Liberals had more contained losses across the Five States, eight seats down compared to four years ago.
The far-left party DRF (Dundorfian Red Front) gained almost 2 points and surged to 53 seats, while the more pragmatic leftist party DSU, which is part of the current government, won 70 seats, thirteen more than four years ago. The Front, said an anonymous campaign source, employed a more populistic tactic this time that worked very well in the state of Chontalen and Oderveld, and this new tactic gave new life to a party that was losing members ever since the DSU was formed.
And then there is the newly formed conservative-regionalist party, KBP which was able to keep a good showing in Julstoch and elect members from Chontalen and Oderveld - states where they never had a political operation if not for the last few months.

This uncertain result in the Bundestag leaves the door open for only one viable coalition, the so-called "Dundorf-Koalition", composed by the DSDP, the TLD and NDZP, an enlarged GroKo that has never been tried before. There is one other possibility, the "Grosse-Links-Koalition", composed by the current center-left coalition plus the DRF, but it is unlikely given their hard-line stance that they will join a government. President Offenbach will have talks in the following days with the Chancellor Berger and all other political leaders, but sources at Karlottenberg Schloss say that she is 'pretty sure' that the Dundorf-Koalition is the only way to proceed. There is also another question for the President: who to appoint Chancellor? Traditionally, the position is given to the leader of the largest party, but it has never been specified if it is the total number of raw votes (which NDZP won) that matters, or the number of seats in Bundestag (which DSDP won), it's the first time in history that the victor of the popular vote doesn't coincide with the party that holds a plurality in the Chamber.

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Election Results (courtesy of the Bundeswahlkommission):
- NDZP: 26,772,122 / 23,4% / 149 seats ( -2,7% and -22)
- DSDP: 26,372,382 / 23,1% / 150 seats (-3,3% and -22)
- GPP: 14,099,806 / 12,3% / 78 seats (-2,9% and -19)
- TLD: 13,756,276 / 12% / 76 seats (-2% and -8)
- DSU: 12,436,824 / 10,9% / 70 seats (+1,8% and +13)
- KBP: 10,989,563 / 9,6% / 54 seats (+7,3% and +36)
- DRF: 9,800,804 / 8,6% / 53 seats (+1,7% and +22)