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GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed to restore confidence in the government today after crashing to a humiliating defeat in the Bavarian state elections.
The Christian Social Union (CSU) — sister party to Ms Merkel’s Christian Democrats — polled 37 per cent, its worst vote for more than six decades as it lost its majority in Germany’s southern state in a major defeat for the governing parties.
Her coalition partner, the Social Democratic Party (SPD), lost its position as the state’s second-largest party as its vote halved to just 9.7 per cent, finishing fifth.
NICK WRIGHT returns to Berlin and finds a city in darkness and political turmoil
From Reform UK to Trump, Orban and beyond, the far right is organised across borders and growing. Waiting for it to collapse is a fatal error – building an international, locally rooted left alternative is now an urgent necessity., argues ROGER McKENZIE
