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A Red-Green Wave Hits the Bundestag: 5674 Zeitung Projection
October 5674

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The Greens' election party in Dunburg. President Freiland-Weber (left) joined party leaders Milo Jensen (center) and Lola Lehmann (right) on the stage.

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Dunburg - The Nordenhausen Allgemeine Zeitung, on the basis of the currently reporting 74% of votes from all across our nation, that the incumbent center-right government of Wolfgang Prawius (NDZP) will lose its majority in the Bundestag and that the Social Democrats will regain their position as Dundorf's largest party, winning at the moment 26% of the votes to the NDZP's 24%. The Zeitung's Decision Desk can also confidently say that the Green Party will surge to the third position, winning a record 19% of the votes. The GPP saw the strongest increase in votes, almost 7% up from four years ago, and the celebration was immediate: at the Greens' election night party the public was jubilant and were quickly joined by the party leaders, Milo Jensen and Lola Lehmann, visibly content, who took the stage with the Federal President, a member of the Green Party. The leaders were just recently elected in a tandem ticket, and ran the campaign together with a catchy slogan: Milo und Lola für dich (Milo and Lola For You).

The Social-Democrats, with their new Party Secretary Lorena Oberlitz, were the first to react when the Zeitung's exit poll showing them in first place was released at 21: "Today, the Dundorfian people gave us back their trust and I stand ready to commit wholly to address their issues, listen to their concern, and act in their interest as this country's next Bundeskanzlerin!". Chancellor Prawius (NDZP) noted that they retained most votes from 5670 and they remain one of Dundorf's largest political forces, before he acknowledged the "disappointing result after 4 years of hard work". In fact, the most votes inside the current governing coalition were lost by the Liberals: TLD is currently losing about 4 percentage points in votes and are projected to lose between 25 and 30 seats in Bundestag. No reaction was recorded by party leaders if not a general groan and strong disappointment among the attendees of the TLD's election watch party. The KBP also lost ground, but contained their losses to 1 percentage point less than 5670 and minimal seats losses, thanks to a strong showing in Oderveld and Chontalen which balanced the losses in other states.

We already updated you about the strong performances of DSDP and GPP, but not everyone in the left is celebrating: the radical DRF (Red Front) had also big losses, second only to the TLD's, sliding down at 4% and being under the 5% threshold to access Bundestag. Luckily for the party, that threshold is applied on regional results, and the Communists will have Bundestag representation thanks to DRF crossing the threshold in Chontalen and Dunlake.  Also in this case, we were unable to get a comment from the Front's leadership, which is choosing, at the moment, to stay silent. The DSU, Dundorfian Social Union, also had contained losses (-1%) but the party leadership was still happy about the strong results obtained by DSDP and Greens, the DSU's spokesperson Anna Paulsen said: "even if the Dundorfian people didn't choose our party specifically, they chose to reward the parties we're in a coalition with, and we're of course very happy about it. We stand ready to join DSDP and the Greens in a red-green-purple Government for All."

President Anna Freiland-Weber didn't speak from the GPP's stage, because it is a politically-charged stage to speak from, and will instead have a press conference tomorrow morning in the institutional stage of Karlottenberg Schloss. Sources at the Schloss say that she privately congratulated with Ms. Oberlitz of the DSDP and invited her to the residence tomorrow afternoon, after her conference, perhaps to entrust her already with the nomination as Chancellor. NDZP sources also indicated that the President called Chancellor Prawius thanking him for his service in this last term.

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Morning Update (99,8% counted):

5674 Election results (+/- 5670):
- DSDP: 25,9% and 164 (+3,7% and +21)
- NDZP: 24,5% and 155 seats (-1,1% and -12)
- GPP: 19,1% and 121 (+7,3% and +45)
- KBP: 10,5% and 66 (-1% and -3)
- TLD: 8,2% and 52 (-4,4% and -31)
- DSU: 7,8% and 49 (-1,1% and -7)
- DRF: 4% and 23 (-3,4% and -13)