🇩🇪⚡️- 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.

🇩🇪⚡️- As vote counting continues, the AFD is set to flip 2 constituency's in West Germany for the first time.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- Syria's Foreign Minister has also arrived in Ankara, Turkey.

🇬🇧🇫🇷🇺🇦⚡- "British Prime Minister Starmer and French President Macron will try to persuade Trump not to hold bilateral talks with Russia in exchange for Europe's commitments to ensuring Ukraine's security in the future," - The Times.