🇩🇪⚡️- AfD will in all likelihood be the official opposition to a CDU/SPD Government.

🇩🇪⚡️- Alice Weidel: "They tried to shrink us in half, but we have doubled. If the [CDU and SPD] form a government coalition, it will fall apart faster than you can blink. Then, we will overtake the CDU. That is our aim."

#BREAKING | Seats projection for the German federal election.

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🇩🇪⚡️- Highest voter turnout in Germany since 1987.

#UPDATE | Very tense results for liberal FDP and left populist BSW. They are at slightly below 5%, according to the newest exit poll data.

A party needs 5% to qualify for seats.

If neither BSW, nor FDP make it, it will make the task of forming coalition much easier - as other parties will have more seats.

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🇩🇪⚡️- AFD has put on the best performance for a right wing party in Germany in the post war period.

🇩🇪⚡️- The SPD has had its worst performance in an election since 1887 while the CDU despite winning a plurality of votes has had its second worst performance in its history.

#NEWS | The election in the districts of #Germany

Color indicates strongest party in a district

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🇩🇪⚡️- Clearest west vs east Germany divide in an election since reunification.

🇺🇸⚡️- Vito Perillo the Mayor of Tinton Falls, New Jersey and last WW2 Veteran in any elected office has passed away last night at 100 years old.

🇺🇸🇩🇪⚡️- President Trump congratulated the CDU on their "victory" in todays elections.

🇺🇸🇩🇪⚡- German election winners, CDU, blasts the US for 'interfering' in the German elections.

🇺🇸🇩🇪⚡- "Interventions in the German election by Elon Musk and from Washington were no less drastic and outrageous than from Moscow," - Friedrich Merz, CDU leader.

🇩🇪⚡- The SPD rules out forming a coalition with the CDU.

🇩🇪⚡- The CDU rules out forming a coalition with the AfD.

🇩🇪⚡- FDP's Christian Lindner says he will resign if they fail to enter the Bundestag.

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇩🇪⚡- "Donald Trump's administration does not care about the fate of Europe, so the EU should focus on strengthening its own position," - Friedrich Merz, CDU leader.

🇷🇺🇹🇷⚡- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrives in Ankara, Turkey.

🇻🇦⚡️- The Vatican reports that Pope Francis is suffering "mild kidney failure," requiring blood transfusions and intubation.

🇩🇪⚡- Christian Lindner resigns from German politics.

🇨🇩🇷🇼🇿🇦⚡- M23 claims they hold 190 South African National Defense Forces, SANDF, as prisoners.