Latest German election humiliation puts Merz on borrowed time as CDU unrest grows
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Chancellor acknowledges disastrous state election results but vow to push on is likely to further alienate voters, and his own party • Europe live – latest updates Friedrich Merz called it a “disaster”, and that was even before the full scale of the catastrophe for himself and his conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) came into view after Sunday’s state elections . In what one outlet called a “power move” ,…
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