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THIRD GUNDIĆ ADMINISTRATION TAKES OFFICE, GUNDIĆ'S LAST TERM
August 18th 5445
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President Gundić
Čahtica: In the narrowest presidential election in a century President of the Federation Adam Gundić has been reelected to serve a third term as head of state. He was directly pitted against demissionary Prime Minister Matousek who ran as the DNS its candidate. Leveraging his personal popularity Gundić managed to edge out in the second round, winning 50.1% of the vote and only 96.000 votes more then Matousek. His Union party also performed better then last election, winning 202 seats in Congress. With this (narrow) victory the president set out to form his third government, now seeking a partnership with the communist party. In order to appease the communists the new government promises to end exorbant spending on the military by ending full on remilitarization, expand social services, invest in regional economies and strengthen the public sector. The communists agreed, with the full cabinet to be inaugurated next week.
While Gundić has been a rather succesfull president, serving for 10 years if this term is fully completed, he was also controversial at his first term, putting regional partners on edge and betting fully on remilitarization. With this new, left-wing oriented government he will be forced to make concessions, thus focussing more on the domestic front rather then the regional front. We are already talking in the pre-tense, and that is because President Gundić, shortly after his reelection, announced that this will be his last term as President, simultaniously resigning party leadership in a bid to give a chance to "the new generation" to take over. Gundić seemingly hints at current party president Damir Dudaš, who is the most likely to succeed as party leader and subsequent presidential candidate. Dudaš, being party president and congressional leader, was also reelected to his Čahtica based seat and has already indicated his willingness to run for party leader. He is more moderate then the conservative Gundić, likely to become a pragmatic leader if taking the reigns.
Political commentators stand at the ready to judge the last Gundić term as the Union prepares for its first leadership election since its inception, with the election to be held at the party congress next year. Until then, the party its executive board will take over the duties of party leadership. Gundić will continue to serve as President of the Federation till the end of his term.