German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU)
party, however, suffered a major setback in the three key state polls on
Sunday March 13,2016, apparently over her liberal refugee policy.
The CDU was defeated in two of the three states in regional elections, and scored a historic low 27 percent in its stronghold Baden-Wuerttemberg where it came in second place after the Greens.
The populist Alternative for Germany, or AfD, which had sparked outrage by suggesting that police may have to shoot at migrants to stop them entering the country, recorded double-digit support in the first elections they have stood for in all three regions.
Formed three years ago in opposition to eurozone bailouts, the AfD has morphed into an anti-refugee party over the past year, kicking out its founder and seizing on a record influx of refugees to lure new voters and steal disaffected members of Merkel's conservatives
On Sunday the AfD won a shocking 24 % of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, to become the second-biggest party in the state parliament.
The AfD also performed better than polls predicted in the two other states, winning nearly 15 % in the prosperous southern region of Baden-Wurttemberg and more than 12 % in Rhineland Palatinate,
a western wine-making state.
The CDU was defeated in two of the three states in regional elections, and scored a historic low 27 percent in its stronghold Baden-Wuerttemberg where it came in second place after the Greens.
The populist Alternative for Germany, or AfD, which had sparked outrage by suggesting that police may have to shoot at migrants to stop them entering the country, recorded double-digit support in the first elections they have stood for in all three regions.
Formed three years ago in opposition to eurozone bailouts, the AfD has morphed into an anti-refugee party over the past year, kicking out its founder and seizing on a record influx of refugees to lure new voters and steal disaffected members of Merkel's conservatives
On Sunday the AfD won a shocking 24 % of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, to become the second-biggest party in the state parliament.
The AfD also performed better than polls predicted in the two other states, winning nearly 15 % in the prosperous southern region of Baden-Wurttemberg and more than 12 % in Rhineland Palatinate,
a western wine-making state.
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