The Conclave has 24 hours to make a decision...
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In a near-lightless bunker 500 meters below Omsk Oblast, Nazarov smiles and sees that he has captured far more votes than anyone expected, but not nearly enough to form a working government. "Ah, well" He thinks "It would have been an awful lot of work anyway."
At heart he is happy: such popular support suggests that NATO-Russo still has its hand on the reigns of power, even if its hand is older and feebler than in Kuzmin's day....more importantly, such popularity garnered large contributions from patriots who trust old dogs like Nazarov implicitly.
Nazarov and half his campaign war chest are never seen again.