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Politics● LowSep 21 · Sep 21, 2026, 8:33 AM

German regional elections: Chancellor Merz and his party suffer historic defeat

GlobeAlert Desk · curated from Le Monde [en] · Western Europe

For the first time since 1949, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) fell below the 5% threshold in a regional election, in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

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