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Report from Berlin: Merz dismisses renouncing after the CDU's electoral defeat

From the headquarters of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), the German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said that he will not give up his post after the defeat of his party in the elections for the Berlin City Hall, in which the left party was won, and after the AfD consolidated his electoral ascent in Mecklemburgo- Western Pomerania. Merz stated that the result "responds to his person" and that these are more profound changes that the country demands. Report from our correspondent, Valentina Godoy.

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How can Merz be interpreted as refusing to resign after the defeat of CDU in the regional elections?

The German Government and the various political forces analyse the results of the regional elections held on 20 September: those of the Berlin Parliament and those of the Federal State of Mecklemburgo- Western Pomerania. Both votes increase the pressure on the political future of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and show that not everything is lost to the left in the country. To discuss the subject, we discussed with Ralf Leiteritz, a polytechnist at the University of Potsdam (Germany), in El Invitado del Día de France 24.

World

"The chancellor's sunset has begun": the pressure is growing on Merz after his electoral debacle in Germany

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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The ultra-right continues to advance in Germany and Merz's survival is now hanging by a thread

The German regional elections in Mecklemburgo- West Pomerania and Berlin marked the defeat of the same party: the conservative CDU, of Friedrich Merz. After the other setback suffered by the overwhelming victory of the ultra-right in Saxony-Anhalt, already described as a failure of the Chancellor's policies, can Friedrich Merz survive these two new setbacks? This is what analysts say.

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Report from Berlin: Merz qualifies the results of regional elections as "undone"

Friedrich Merz described the results of the regional elections in Germany as' disastrous'. The CDU suffered a historical setback in the face of AfD's advance after the elections in Mecklemburgo-West Pomerania and Berlin. The results call into question the political future of the Chancellor and reconfigure the German picture. From Berlin, our correspondent Valentina Godoy tells us more.

Politics

Merz admits a "disaster" in two regional elections, but promises to continue with its reforms

The German Chancellor Friedrich Merz described Sunday as "disaster" the strong setback of his party, the CDU, in two regional elections, but he committed himself to continue with his reform plan. The extreme right-wing party Alternative for Germany (AfD) was first in the north-eastern state of Mecklemburgo- Western Pomerania, according to the polls at the urn foot, and also gained ground in another election held in Berlin.

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