'I WAS A PROBLEM': Merz ADMITS Failure As AfD Storms To Near-Majority In Saxony-Anhalt Election!

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz acknowledged that he himself had been a central issue in his party's local election campaign in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, where the nationalist Alternative for Germany party won nearly 44 percent of the vote and 39 of 83 seats, falling just three seats short of an outright majority. AfD state leader Ulrich Siegmund declared the result gave the party a clear mandate to govern, while outgoing state premier Sven Schulze of Merz's Christian Democratic Union acknowledged his party no longer had a mandate to govern after recording a historic low of 17.2 percent of the vote. Merz stated that Germany needed fundamental reforms to its tax, labour and pension systems and vowed to continue pursuing this agenda alongside coalition partners the Social Democrats, acknowledging that many Germans feel afraid for their economic security and increasingly concerned about the country's democratic values and social cohesion. The AfD, which mainstream German partie

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