By September, the Central Powers were defeated on the Macedonian front, rekindling Romanian hopes for an Entente victory. Re-enrolled by the French Army as an adamant anti-German, Radu Jr mediated between Ferdinand and the Army of the Orient. Romania's situation improved greatly with the German Armistice on November 11, which signaled Marghiloman's downfall. Radu Sr ran unsuccessfully for an Assembly seat in the November 18 election. According to Iorga, he still enjoyed sizable support from the Bucharest populace. At the time, "Renașterea" published his designs for land reform. Criticizing Marghiloman for his concessions to the peasants, these went back on his earlier radicalism, proposing the preservation of some large estates, in hopes that these would ensure competitiveness and the modernization of agriculture.