Germany’s Friedrich Merz vows to stay on despite ‘disaster’ in regional elections | FT #shorts
Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservatives won just 4.9% of the vote in the north-eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the party’s worst result in any state election in Germany’s postwar history. The outcome means the Christian Democratic Union will fail to gain any seats in the regional parliament, according to preliminary results.
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