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Support for Merz plunges after CDU’s losses to Germany’s right and left
Chancellor Friedrich Merz hits a record low approval rating after his party suffered defeats in three state elections.
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The regional elections in Germany left the CDU of Friedrich Merz in crisis, after a historical setback that the Chancellor described as "disastrous" by not reaching the 5% threshold in some states. In contrast, the ultra-right of AfD celebrated unpublished victories: its leader Alice Weidel said the party is ready to become a decisive force in the country. Meanwhile, Die Linke was consolidated in Berlin, where his candidate Elif Eralp celebrated the triumph with a message of social change.
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The German ultra-right, embodied in the AfD, consolidates its electoral ascent following the victory of Sunday in the Mecklemburgo- Western Pomerania region to the detriment of the official Christian Democratic Union (CDU), which also lost ground in Berlin in front of the Left Party. This chain of defeats has in the hands of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who, however, advocated to maintain his conservative coalition in the name of the country's "democratic future."
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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and CDU representatives held a press conference on Monday, September 21, after the party suffered its worst regional election defeat in postwar Germany. Merz called the result in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania a “disaster”, as the CDU fell below the 5% threshold for entering the state parliament. Helmut Schmidt fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the US, Markus Ziener, shares further details.
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