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Jeannette Süss: "There is a feeling in the territories of the former GDR that they are not being listened to"

Two weeks after the triumph of AfD in Saxony-Anhalt, the results of the regional elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania confirm the breakthrough of the far right in Germany. It is a debacle for Chancellor Friedrich Merz's CDU, who has acknowledged his failure but remains on course, promising to continue the reforms undertaken. Jeannette Süss (of the Ifri Franco-German Relations Study Committee) was the Invitation of At the Heart of Info.

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Elections in Germany: Friedrich Merz's survival holds only one thread

The German regional elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin both marked the defeat of the same party: Friedrich Merz's CDU. After the recent shock caused by the wide-ranging victory of the far right in Saxony-Anhalt, already analysed as a failure of the Chancellor's policy, can Friedrich Merz survive these two new setbacks?

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Elections in Germany: CDU threatened by extreme right

Will German Chancellor Friedrich Merz survive Sunday's regional elections? The debate was opened after the recent electoral failure of its Conservative party in Saxony-Anhalt, where the far right achieved an overwhelming victory.