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Germany (Hesse regional election), FGW projection (11:37pm CET):

CDU-EPP: 27%
SPD-S&D: 19.8%
GRÜNE-G/EFA: 19.7%
AfD-EFDD 13.2%
FDP-ALDE: 7.5%
LINKE-LEFT: 6.3%#hessenwahl2018 #hessenwahl #ltwhe #ltwhessen #hessen pic.twitter.com/25FnS7J9qo
— Europe Elects (@EuropeElects) October 28, 2018

Not enough for a CDU-Greens coalition.

Headline from DW:

Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives eke out win in Hesse election

Despite a large drop in support, the CDU has won the Hesse state regional poll, giving the chancellor some welcome breathing room. But the weakness of the political center in Germany remains glaringly obvious.
There were a couple of points of solace for Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) as the first official projections were announced for Sunday's regional election.
The CDU's tally of 27.4 percent may have been down some 11 points compared with the last Hesse vote in 2013, but it was slightly better than pre-election polls had predicted and gives incumbent state premier and Merkel ally Volker Bouffier a mandate to form the next government.

Headline from The Guradian:

Merkel suffers another election setback in key German state of Hesse

Germany's ruling parties are reeling from their second electoral upset in a fortnight, after voters in a key state abandoned them in droves. The result in the central state of Hesse could plunge both parties of Angela Merkel's coalition government into renewed crises.
Early results from a regional election seen as decisive for the future of Germany's increasingly wobbly coalition showed Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) slumping to 28%, the party's worst showing in the state since 1966 and a drop of 10 percentage points since Hesse last went to the polls in 2013.

by Bernard (bernard) on Sun Oct 28th, 2018 at 11:41:55 PM EST
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According to Wikipedia, CDU got 40 seats, Greens 29, SPD 29, AfD 19, FDP 11 and Linke 9. Total 137, majority 69. So CDU and Greens or SPD would be just enough. So would Greens, FDP and SDP.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hessian_state_election,_2018

by fjallstrom on Mon Oct 29th, 2018 at 10:43:25 AM EST
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I note that SPD + Greens + Linke are two seats short of a majority.

This is actually irrelevant, because I presume that neither SPD nor Grünen would wand to associate with left wingers.

Actually, it looks like a fine mess. Minority administration?

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- Queen Elizabeth II}

by eurogreen on Mon Oct 29th, 2018 at 11:28:51 AM EST
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Merkel to step down as CDU leader

The end of the Angela Merkel era has begun.
The German chancellor declared on Monday she would stand down as leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), after the party suffered heavy losses in a regional election in the state of Hesse.
Merkel said she plans to remain chancellor until her term ends in 2021 but will not run for another term as German leader. But giving up the party post will weaken her authority and reinforce the sense that her long reign is coming to an end. It also raises the prospect that her party, or her coalition partners, could push her out of the chancellery sooner.

by Bernard (bernard) on Mon Oct 29th, 2018 at 01:52:43 PM EST
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