The canon ending as Tyrak wins the election continues the sequel to Road 96
At the end of Road 96, where Tyrak remains in power.
Why so? Because Tyrak's victory provides the most compelling starting point for the rest of the story, which perfectly aligns with the Black Brigade's ideology:
The system was too rotten for a ballot change: From the outset, the Black Brigade believed that the democratic institutions in Petria were merely an illusion created by the authoritarian regime. Voting for Florres was intended to give citizens a false sense of influence over the government. Tyrak's victory—through falsification of the results or brutal suppression of the electoral process—ultimately proves that the regime cannot be dismantled from within by ballot.
The need for a bloody revolution instead of reforms: For the Black Brigade, replacing the moderate, independent Florres as president would be merely "powdering a syphilitic"—a superficial correction that would lull society's vigilance. The Brigade believed that a change of president would not change the structure of the deep state, the military, the police, or the business networks supporting Tyrak. Such a state of affairs would prevent reckoning with past crimes (including the 1986 coup).
Keeping Tyrak in power as a catalyst for a true breakthrough: Tyrak's victory forces society to abandon illusions and stake everything on one card. Only the full, open embrace of dictatorship creates the conditions for a true, albeit bloody, revolution in which citizens have nothing left to lose.
This development naturally builds the stakes for a sequel, although teenagers will likely flee the country anyway.