Germany’s Friedrich Merz vows to stay on despite ‘disaster’ in regional elections | FT #shorts
Why now
Thesis: CDU state collapse weakens Germany's coalition stability
Catalyst to watch: Coalition response or further regional votes
Main risk: Political instability pressures German assets
Why it matters
A historic CDU collapse in a state vote weakens Germany's governing coalition, raising political and fiscal uncertainty.
Details
Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservatives won just 4.9% of the vote in the north-eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the party’s worst result in any state election in Germany’s postwar history. The outcome means the Christian Democratic Union will fail to gain any seats in the regional parliame
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