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Party leadership elections have been held in the Dizgovzian parliament, as campaigning season begins to reach its climax. The Dizgovzian Centrist Party, who currently hold the Prime Ministership with outgoing Alex Tashenov as the minority partner in a coalition with the Social Democratic Party, have made some legislative successes. They successfully increased the military and housing budgets, but have had little success on building new nuclear power plants and passing their bill expanding LGBT rights. Critically, it seems this election will require a government to include the DCP, as polls indicate that neither the SDP nor the Catholic Union of Dizgovzy will gain an outright parliament majority. Furthermore, the DCP has pledged to outright refuse a coalition with any party that will not pass legislation increasing LGBT rights. Both the SDP and the CUD have maintained as parties that they will not support such a bill, believing the current legislation to be sufficient, and that any expansion would be unnecessary and detrimental by riling up the "culture war," potentially influencing voters to the pro-Putin far-right For a Better Future! party. However, the SPD allows individual members to support the DCP's current bill, as does the CUD, although few members have expressed support. Thus, it seems that a majority government can only form if either the SDP or CUD allows the passing of DCP bills, which seems more likely with the SDP. Green Dizgovzy, a small party currently projected to lose all three of their seats, will likely coalition with the SDP. The Dizgovzian Jewish Party and libertarian Freedom Party will likely coalition with the DCP, and the CUD if the DCP forms a majority government with the SDP. The For a Better Future! party will likely only win a few seats and will not be accepted into any coalition.

As such, the possibility of Dizgovzy forming an interim government seems more and more likely by the day as none of the three parties seem likely to budge. Per the Dizgovzian Constitution of 1992, should no majority government form, if the offices of the Prime Minister and Deputy Minister are both vacant, or if a Prime Minister cannot be elected within one week of the election or a vacancy, an Interim Prime Minister must be elected within one day to maintain the necessary functions of state until a majority coalition forms, the Interim Prime Minster is elected Prime Minister, or another election is called. This has happened once in Dizgovzian history, with María Grekolíjuz of the DCP serving as Interim Prime Minister in 2006 before her election as Prime Minister two weeks later. The Interim Prime Minister has limited powers in peacetime (full when the country is in a State of War), and must appoint a co-minister from each party that has enough parliamentary members to fill all ministerial roles. As such, were this election to result in an Interim Prime Minister, it is most likely that there would be 21 co-ministers of the seven departments, each of which would have three co-ministers. During a peacetime Interim Government, legislation may only pass if it has the support of the co-ministers of its affected department and has been deemed as legislation "necessary for government operations" by a parliament vote of 60/100.

Should an Interim Prime Minister be required, it is unknown who would likely fill that role. Leadership elections for the parties currently in Parliament were concluded today, and those persons are usually the only Prime Ministerial candidates, although future updates shall be given if such candidates change within the next few weeks.

Parties	Current Seats	Hlazbaúrg Post Prediction (Dec 7)	Tosnovit Institute Poll Prediction (Dec 3)
Social Democratic Party	37	28	26
Dizgovzian Centrist Party	19	23	18
Catholic Union of Dizgovzy	32	43	44
Freedom Party	4	2	6
For a Better Future! (formerly Russian Union of Dizgovzy)	3	2	3
Dizgovzian Jewish Party	2	2	2
Green Dizgovzy	3	0	1

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The economically left-wing and socially moderate SDP reelected former Prime Minister (March- end 2019) and current Party Leader (March 2019-present) Lísja Viniþaríjuz unanimously. Current Deputy Leader Pajtur Mulnaruz (2021-present) was also unanimously reelected. Hélenía Petrušína was elected 29-8 as Party Whip.

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As current Prime Minister (2020-end 2024) and Party Leader Alex Tashenov (2014-end 2024) has announced his intention to pass the torch onto new leadership, all leadership positions were open. Current Deputy Leader (2018-present) and former Deputy Prime Minister (2020-2022) Andréas Hlazek faced Minister of Health María Korotkina for the leadership position. He won the vote 12-6-1. Deputy Minister of Defence Jonas Antojuz was elected Deputy Leader 16-2-1. Deputy Minister of Finance Níkolai hra Parjabaúrg was elected Party Whip 18-0-1.

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Anna Tosnovit-Sayenko, the granddaughter of first Dizgovzian Prime Minister Paul Tosnovit, was elected unanimously as Party Leader. Míkael Aþanasuz was elected Deputy Leader 26-8. After withdrawing herself from Party Leader consideration, Aléksandra Dukakís was elected Party Whip 29-3.

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The libertarian Freedom Party unanimously reelected Tomas Níþar as Party Leader and Pajtur Čarajuz as Deputy Leader. They do not have a Party Whip.

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Pro-Putin and far-right, For a Better Future! unanimously reelected Aívan Djačkov as Party Leader. They do not have a Deputy Leader or Party Whip in Parliament.

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Long-term Party Leader (1995-present) and perennial Prime Minister candidate Markus Salzman was reelected Party Leader. They do not have a Deputy Leader or Party Whip in Parliament.

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Pro-Putin and far-left (?), Green Dizgovzy elected Julía Hlasuruz 2-1 as Party Leader.