Previous: The North Is Annexed The SPD (Social Democrats) went into the elections better organized than any other party, with a functioning grassroots network in place. The National Liberal Party fared well in the election, too, skimming off both a lot of Northern and Protestant resentment against Catholic traditionalism as well as urban bourgeois enthusiasm for a Germany shaped by freedom and democracy, with Britain and the US as role models. The government and the leaders of the coalition parties meet in the Reichstag to discuss the situation. What will they do? Withdraw the initiative.