Exit polls showed Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s party suffering heavy losses in two German state elections on Sunday.
Merz’s centre-right Christian Democratic Union is projected to fall to 5.5% in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, a largely rural state in Germany’s formerly communist east. That would be its worst result there since World War II.
In Berlin, the CDU is projected to finish second with 20% of the vote, trailing the Left Party at 24.5%, according to an exit poll by the public broadcaster ARD.
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) made significant gains in Sunday’s regional elections. The vote came two weeks after the AfD finished just short…
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