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Merkel Party Braces For Drubbing In German State Polls By Pauline CURTET with Michelle FITZPATRICK in Frankfurt
on March 14 2021 3:11 PM
Chancellor Angela Merkel s conservatives are bracing for a rout in two key regional polls Sunday, with voters expected to punish Germany s largest party for a face-mask corruption scandal and a series of pandemic setbacks.
The votes for new regional parliaments in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Wuerttemberg are seen as a bellwether of the nation s mood ahead of September 26 general elections which will be the first in over 15 years not to feature Merkel.
Things aren t looking good for the conservatives. Recent surveys have shown that support for Merkel s centre-right CDU/CSU alliance has fallen to a one-year low at around 30 percent as Germans sour on its coronavirus crisis management.
Chancellor Merkel party braces for drubbing in German state polls
14 Mar 2021 Chancellor Angela Merkel attends an event. File photo Gulf Today Report
Chancellor Angela Merkel s conservatives are bracing for a rout in two key regional polls Sunday, as German voters go to the polls in regional elections in two western states that pose an early test of the conservative Christian Democrats prospects of retaining power in a federal vote later this year.
Voters expected to punish country’s largest party for a face-mask corruption scandal and a series of pandemic setbacks.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel, in power since 2005, is not seeking re-election in September and her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is already missing the Merkel bonus she has brought them with four consecutive national election victories.
Germans headed to the polls in two key regional elections on Sunday, with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives bracing for a drubbing on anger over a corruption scandal and a series of pandemic setbacks. The votes for new regional parliaments
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