Another regional election defeat for Merkel, as German leader’s party beaten by right-wing AfD

RT | October 27, 2019 German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) lost yet another regional election, coming behind both left-wing Linke and right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the eastern state of Thuringia. It’s not the first time in 2019 that Germany’s ruling party has taken a hammering in local polls. Merkel’s CDU […]