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Monday, September 5, 2016

Far-Right Party Beats Merkel's CDU in German Regional Election

The Alternative for Germany placed second behind the Social Democrats in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

By Michael Warren

The BBC reports:
 

Angela Merkel's ruling CDU party has been beaten into third place by an anti-immigrant and anti-Islam party in elections in a north-eastern German state, TV exit polls suggest.  The Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) party took 21% of the vote behind the centre-left SPD's 30.5%. The German chancellor's CDU was supported by only 19% of those who voted, according to the exit poll.  The third-place finish for the center-right CDU in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania does not bode well for Merkel and her party in next year's federal elections, as Christopher Caldwell noted recently:.....To Read More.....

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