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5619 Elections bring new era to Triad: Social Democracy Returns

March 5619

The general elections of 5619 see a fundamental change to the power dynamics in the senate of Narikaton, Darnussia and Himmelshtern, former President Buchu’s loss of said office. In his place the young and promising Klara Fein from the social-democratic Grand Reform Party won the office, marking the first time that the powerful Head of State position is in left of center hands.



Fein ran on a platform one can consider ‘classic’ for left-wing politicians. She advocates for a stalwart defense of the welfare state against conservative and libertarian attacks against it, aiming also to strengthen the position of Unions. At one of her campaign rallies she said “Now is the time, we have so much potential with the founding of this new and great nation. We are going to show the common – working – man of these three republics that there is a different vision and life possible, the are down-trodden and abused by years of negligence by our selfserving corporate entities. No longer shall you be beaten and exploited, for your labour is your own and without it there would be no wealth to steal from you. Long live the Triad! Long live the working man!” Along the same lines of rhetorics were the other speeches of her on the campaign trail. What some identified as her weaknesses was her reliance on a very diverse party which still needs to be lastingly united. Another point of contention she ws attacked with by her main opponent the VVP incumbent Buchu was her lack of experience on national level politics, her background is in Darnussia state level public administration. Nonetheless she has won the presidential bid but has to deal with challenges.



One of the challenges hails from the results of the senatorial election which sees the GRP with amazing results for their first contested election but only with a relative majority meaning that a stable cabinet for the President needs coalition partners, this situation is amplified by the fact that the political representation in the Senate is more diverse than ever with two new parties entering parliament.



What we can see now - is that the most likely variant for the formation of a coalition is another Grand Coalition but instead of the DRP the GRP is the left-wing partner in the partnership. This would be strategically unwise considering that large chunks of the GRP electorate have cast their vote deliberately against the VVP this would certainly also provoke more issues especially since nobody knows how the internal politics of the conservatives are gonna change after this electoral loss. Other opportunities open up if the GRP is ready to form a government with more than one partner, negotiations with the DRP and the smaller centrist YBP as well as the environmentalist A600 would suffice for a majority in the Senate.  The Third option would be to open up to the newest political camp in the Triad, the Thallerists, Fein could either invite one or two of them to negotiations. Both a red (socialist) and a grey (conservative) Thallerist party have earned a larger than anticipated amount of seats in the Senate tieing in with a global trend toward a revival, this option is a wildcard since the GRP had a tendency of being sceptical toward the TKP and FAUST but Fein herself has declined to comment on this development. In any case, all variants offer benefits but also demand a lot of compromise.

Now onto a brief overview of the results for the other contestants. Obviously the VVP has to deal with major losses in the Senate plus the loss of the presidency to the GRP, but they still remain the second largest party with a large lead to the Thallerist Conservative Party in third place. Buchu’s political career seems over and new personel does not appear out of thin air, we expect the VVP be more stagnant for the immediate future. Another loser is the junior Partner of the pre-election government, the DRP has basically lost all left of center voters to the GRP and only a hardened centrist core of the party remains, they’ve not commented on the possibility of joining a government yet. The smaller parties have more or less maintained their status but have seen marginal increases in voter share. Finally one of the two big winners of this election apart of the GRP is the social-dundorfian nationalist FAUST party which advocates for a different form of government and sweeping changes to the economic system of the Nation, a fact that they share with the winning party. Their older sister-party the Thallerist Conservative Party which has continuously existed for years now, has once again managed to enter parliament with 15% of the electorate supporting their ticket, this makes them the third largest party, they are described as conservative and hosian-distributionist in economic affairs making them economically center-right.

In any case, the battle has been fought, the campaigning is over, lets see what the negotiations bring, we – certainly -  are excited.