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Merkel's CDU routed in Hamburg state election
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| Contributor | New Jerusalem |
| Last Edited | New Jerusalem Feb 20, 2011 03:09pm |
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| Author | Reuters |
| Media | News Service - Reuters |
| News Date | Sunday, February 20, 2011 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats suffered a crushing defeat in a regional election in the northern German city-state of Hamburg on Sunday that will make it harder for her coalition to pass laws.
The rout, the party's worst post-war result, will cost the CDU three seats in the upper house, or Bundesrat.
The unexpectedly large scope of the defeat may cause turbulence for Merkel and her conservatives at the national level with six further regional elections coming this year.
The CDU fell to 20.8 percent from 42.6 percent in the last election in 2008, according to an ARD TV projection. The drop of 21.8 points was the steepest decline ever between elections for the CDU and about five points worse than pollsters had forecast.
"It's an hour of helplessness for us," said the defeated CDU candidate for mayor in Hamburg, Christoph Ahlhaus.
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