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NDZP Wins the 5658 Federal Election
October 5658

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NDZP supporters celebrating in Unterschloss, Oderveld

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Dunburg - The New Dundorfian Centre Party (NDZP) won the Federal Election held yesterday in the whole Dundorf, winning a small plurality with 22,9% of the votes and getting ahead of the Social Democrats (DSDP) who won 21.3% of the votes. Once again, like in 5654, the two major parties lost votes and now their combined vote share is 44,2%, a number so bad that represents an historical low and is clearly an insufficent amount of votes to form a Grand Coalition, which in the past decades was the to-go coalition when no other majority could be formed. The third largest party was the TLD (Team Liberal-Democrats) which overtook the Greens and was the only party of the current government to gain votes and now demands more prestigious positions in the Federal Cabinet should they be included again.
Among the opposition lists, the Social Union (DSU) was the party that lost the most votes while the two more radical parties (respectively left-wing and right-wing) were able to increase their vote share, but not everyone had the same success when it comes to Bundestag seats. For example, the hard-left-wing party DRF (Dundorfian Red Front) increased their vote share, but because they fell under the threshold in Oderveld, they actually lost one seat compared to four years ago. Right-wing and regionalist party KBP (Conservative Federal Party) instead won more votes and won more seats thanks to their crossing of the threshold in the state of Grozvic and an unexpectedly strong performance in Julstoch and Chontalen.

The Federal President has announced that the NDZP will be given the right to form a coalition in accordance to historical precedent (the largest party is designated as the Senior Partner of the next Coalition and its leader becomes Chancellor-Designate) and has asked Erica Kleinfelder to visit Karlottenburg Schloss in the following days. The most likely coalition according to the experts is the current one: NDZP-DSDP and TLD, even though a "Big Tent" Leftist coalition, from the DRF to DSDP, could still be formed as it has more than 316 members of Bundestag necessary to win election as Chancellor - but only if the NDZP fails to form a coalition.

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Election Results (courtesy of the Bundeswahlkommission):
- NDZP: 25,753,742 / 22,9% / 151 seats (-0,6% and +2)
- DSDP: 24,010,027 / 21,3% / 140 seats (-1,8% and -10)
- TLD: 14,725,777 / 13,1% / 84 seats (+1,1% and +8)
- GPP: 13,566,317 / 12% / 77 seats (-0,3% and -1)
- KBP: 12,867,601 / 11,4% / 64 seats (+1,8% and +10)
- DSU: 10,857,232 / 9,6% / 62 seats (-1,3% and -8)
- DRF: 10,928,979 / 9,7% / 52 seats (+1,1% and -1)