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The Bavarian CSU, a key ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party CDU leads in the regional election in Bavaria, securing 35,5% of votes, according to exit poll results.
Despite that Bavarian CSU received 35,5% of votes in the regional election, the party suffered their worst election result since 1950, as the results of the exit poll show.
The sister party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats is trailed by the Greens with 18.5 percent and the Free Voters party with 11.5 percent, the Bavarian Radio said.
Merkel’s CDU’s ally lost their votes to right-wing parties, right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) entering the state assembly for the first time with 11 percent.
Chancellor Merkel’s other partner in the governing coalition, the Social Democrats (SPD), came fifth with 10 percent of the vote. These results mean that the CSU will need to form a coalition.
Prior to the election, when asked to comment on the exit poll, Martin Sichert, the chairman of party AfD in Bavaria, told Sputnik that “if the CSU loses the majority in Bavaria, that will be a disaster for Merkel’s government.”
“We expect big losses for the CSU and the SPD,” he said, adding that the AfD hopes that Angela Merkel will draw conclusions.
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