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| Merkel's CDU 'suffers Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania poll blow' |
| 2016-09-05 |
| [BBC] Angela Merkel ...current chancellor of Germany. She was educated in East Germany when is was still run by commies, but in 1989 got involved with the growing democracy movement when the Berlin Wall fell. Merkel is sometimes referred to by Germans as Mom, more often now referred to as "Spitzbube" (villain) or Dummkopf" (dumbass), take your pick... '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 21.4% of the vote behind the centre-left SPD's 30.2%. The German chancellor's CDU was supported by only 19.8% of those who voted, according to the exit polls. The vote was seen as a key test before German parliamentary elections in 2017. Before the vote in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, all of Germany's other parties ruled out forming a governing coalition with the AfD. However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... the party's strong showing could weaken Mrs Merkel ahead of the national elections next year. Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, in the former East Germany, is where the chancellor's own constituency is located. |
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