German leader vows to press on with agenda despite 'disaster' state election losses to AfD
Merz said the losses will not derail his reform agenda, as the AfD gained ground and the CDU posted its worst result in a state election.
- German Chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed to remain in office Sunday after his Christian Democratic Union suffered a historic 5% result in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the party's lowest score since World War II.
- Taking office 16 months ago, Merz has struggled to rally the nation, with his popularity plummeting following the CDU's stinging defeat to the AfD in the Saxony-Anhalt election on September 6.
- In Berlin, the CDU finished second with 20%, trailing Die Linke at 24.5%, while the Russia-friendly Alternative for Germany secured 37% in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and 16% in Berlin.
- Although calls for his resignation emerged within his party, eight state premiers declared on Wednesday that Germany needs "stability now more than ever" rather than "discussions about personnel" regarding the chancellor.
- Merz cancelled a scheduled trip to New York next week for the General Assembly, insisting that Germany's economic troubles make his reform agenda more urgent, not less.
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Berlin, 20 Sep (EFE).- The German Chancellor and president of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Friedrich Merz, admitted this Sunday that the result in the elections of the northeastern federated state of Mecklenburg-Antepomerania, where his strength would have obtained only between 5% and 5.5%, is a "disaster", although he showed himself to be a fighter and refused [...] The Merz entry qualifies the result in northeastern Germany as "disast…
This Sunday's elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin are two new camouflages for Friedrich Merz's party. The CDU takes two crazy defeats against the far right and the radical left, after that of Saxony-Anhalt two weeks ago. The chancellor is under pressure but has announced to remain in the post and keep his courseIt is a catastrophic evening that the German Christian Democrats have lived this Sunday.
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) won the regional elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania with 37% of the vote, according to polls out of the ballot box. The CDU, led by Chancellor Friedrich...
Merz calls his conservative CDU's poor result in eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 'a disaster' but says he will remain party leader and chancellor
The Christian Democrat is the least popular chancellor since the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany
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