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Analyst: It's Certainly Not Simple or Easy to Be Friedrich Merz Today

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IN PROVINCIAL elections in Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD won over 40% of the vote for the first time, inflicting a crushing defeat on Chancellor Merz's CDU. Analyst Goran Bandov assesses that the AfD is still a phenomenon of the East.

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Friedrich Merz tries it the day after with a mixture of dosed self-criticism and demonstrative determination. Whether there is more? Uncertain. The lightning analysis in the newsblog.

·Hamburg, Germany
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IN PROVINCIAL elections in Saxony-Anhalt, the AfD won over 40% of the vote for the first time, inflicting a crushing defeat on Chancellor Merz's CDU. Analyst Goran Bandov assesses that the AfD is still a phenomenon of the East.

·Zagreb, Croatia
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Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz is a communicative heavyweight, so he sees himself. With the verbal baton he tries to bring his agenda among the people and then wonders that he does not love him from the heart. Now his CDU has made a historic defeat in the election in Saxony-Anhalt and when he then in front of the camera [...] The article 43 to 60 percent of voters in Saxony-Anhalt felt emotionally picked up by Friedrich Merz – a comment first…

Friedrich Merz took a very long time to give an opinion on the election disaster of Magdeburg, and one has to admit that it is historical in order to use one of many overstretched words. In the real sense historical, however, because it reminds in style and tonality of another speech that appeared on 18 October 1989, i.e. before almost exact Der Beitrag Wie Friedrich Merz die Welt von Neu-Wandlitz aus erschien zuerst auf Tichys Übersicht.

·Eschborn, Germany
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Officially, top candidate Sven Schulze lost the election. Politically, however, the CDU slump in Saxony-Anhalt mainly hit Chancellor Friedrich Merz, whose course apparently no longer convinced many voters.

·Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
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IndexHR broke the news in Zagreb, Croatia on Sunday, September 6, 2026.
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