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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
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
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.
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.
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.
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