Merz Digs In as CDU Crashes to Historic 4.9% in Germany’s East, AfD Surges to Victory

‼️ 🇩🇪 Chancellor Friedrich Merz says he’ll stay on despite his CDU suffering a historic first-ever wipeout in a German state election, taking just 4.9% in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania as the AfD topped the poll with 38.2%. Separately, the anti-capitalist Left party—running on a platform to expropriate housing from private landlords—won the Berlin city-state election.

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