Two of Germany's 16 federal states, Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , have just elected new state legislatures. The results for Chancellor Friedrich Merz 's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) represent yet another major blow in turbulent times both nationally and internationally. In northeastern Germany, projections suggest that the CDU narrowly failed to clear the 5% threshold for representation in parliament, a historic first in the party's history. In the German capital, the party that led the state government, lost nearly a third of its support, dropping to around 20%. Just minutes after the first projections were released, Merz made a statement: "We can't sugarcoat the results in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania — it was a disaster.
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