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5668 elections conclude as expected – Siske Ossel wins second Term and dominates Presidential Race

May 5668

The people of the – now enlarged – Triad Republic have voted for the first time in the bounds of its new borders and have more or less followed what has been predicted by market research during the middle of the term. A few caveats exist but they do not represent a major political power shift

With regards to the Senate, the VVP finishes first but wins quite a few percentage points less than initially expected. The difference between the 35% relative majority and the second largest party the official opposition, the social democratic Grand Reform Party, counts 6% and is obviously quite large. The numbers for the middle of the pack represented by the TKP and DRP are almost unchanged from pre-election polling but confirm a general downward trend for the conservative Thallerists and a stagnancy for the liberal centrists in the Democratic Republicans. Summarily one could say that the GRP did not lose as bad as expected and the biggest surprise is a slight victory for the moderately conservative Yeudi Citizen Party (Yeudische Bürgerpartei) which advocates for federalism, election analysts have explained that this development was not surprising at all considering the recent popularization of the issue by Siske Ossel. 

The Presidential race has been even more clear than market researchers have stated which bodes well for the approval ratings of Siske Ossel, she has won the election with a baffling 58 percentage point lead and is going to continue her presidency in a second term. Most of the political observers expect Ossel to continue her administration with the already familiar conservative Thallerists even though some issues still have to be challenged. Both Federalization and some foreign policy questions have to be overcome in the negotiations to continue the current coalition government constellation. In a recent opinion shift while campaigning for the Senate, the TKP has also started to open up to more regulatory policies such as bureaucracy reform, some labour protection laws and the maintenance of a basic level of welfare. Left-Wing voters have interpreted it as a bid to steal voters from the GRP and as such have not bought into this shift. In any case, we’re watching the political volatility and cut-throat politics of the Triad unfold in real-time.