Sunday, October 14, 2018

World Alert: Bavarian voters deliver a stinging blow to Merkel’s allies, boost parties to the left and the right

Projections based on exit polls show the conservative Christian Social Union, long a juggernaut in Bavaria, receiving one of the worst results in its history. The Greens and the far-right Alternative for Germany both surged in a Bavarian parliamentary election defined by polarized opinions on immigration. The result of Sunday's vote is likely to reverberate loudly in Berlin, where it will be seen as yet another blow to Chancellor Angela Merkel's once-mighty fusion of her own Christian Democratic Union (CDU) with its Bavarian sister, the CSU.
 
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World Alert Oct 14, 12:59 PM
 
 
Bavarian voters deliver a stinging blow to Merkel's allies, boost parties to the left and the right

Projections based on exit polls show the conservative Christian Social Union, long a juggernaut in Bavaria, receiving one of the worst results in its history. The Greens and the far-right Alternative for Germany both surged in a Bavarian parliamentary election defined by polarized opinions on immigration.

The result of Sunday's vote is likely to reverberate loudly in Berlin, where it will be seen as yet another blow to Chancellor Angela Merkel's once-mighty fusion of her own Christian Democratic Union (CDU) with its Bavarian sister, the CSU.

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