Five takeaways from Germany's regional elections after far-right gains

AfD's win isn't the disaster. Merz calling it one, with no plan to answer it, is.

Sunday's elections in two German states resulted in the defeat of the country's ruling CDU, a result described as a “disaster” by Chancellor Friedrich Merz. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, in the northeast of the country, the far-right AfD became the strongest party while the hard-left Die Linke led the polls in Berlin.

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