Elections pile pressure on German Chancellor
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Pete Ross, and in the early hours of Monday, the twenty-first of September, these are our main stories. Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz has described the results of a state election as a disaster for his party. far right AFD continues to make gains. US officials say 18 suspects in the assassination of the Haitian president Juvenil Moish five years ago have been flown from Haiti to Florida for trial. Also, in this podcast, there's an outcry in Barcelona over plans to expand the airport.
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And Donald Trump reveals more details about his controversial plans to build a triumphal arch in Washington, DC. We begin in Germany, where the embattled Chancellor Frederick Merz is fighting for his political survival. As you record this podcast, preliminary results from two state elections on Sunday suggest damaging defeats for a center-right Christian Democratic Union Party. In one of them, in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg, Western Pomerania, the CDU may have dipped below the threshold needed to stay in Parliament. The far-right alternativa Für Deutschland or AFD is on track to win the most votes. Yeah. Not long ago the party was on the fringes of German politics, but its anti-immigration agenda has proved popular and it's fast emerging as a major force.
Mr. Merz admitted that the result was hugely damaging for his party, but has vowed to stay in office.
Today we've seen two elections with very different results. We can't sugarcoat the results in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. It's a disaster. The CDU fought but ultimately got squeezed between the SPD and the
AFD. Leif Eric Holm is the AFD candidate for Premier in the state.
We've seen that people want change. That too is clearly reflected in the numbers. We are in the lead and of course we want to remain in the lead by the end of the evening. We want to become the strongest force. We have the mandate to govern here in Mecklenburg Western Pomerania.
The other state election was in Berlin, where the CDU also performed poorly. Our Berlin correspondent Jessica Parker spoke to us from the capital there as results were coming in.
The initial exit poll drops showed a Delinka the left party coming out ahead in Berlin, therefore potentially squeezing a second place Conservative CDU party out of a future coalition. Talks will obviously now uh need to happen as is uh per usual in German politics. And then in Mecklenburg, Port Pommen, as we've been hearing, no one expected the CDU to do well. It's not a strong state for them. But being around that five percent threshold where if you fall below it you don't even get into the state parliament That's pretty disastrous for the C DU and a record low result, and I think the one that Friedrich Mertz has basically described as a disaster for them. A lot of people are saying he needs to answer this as the leader of his party.
One CDU official I spoke to earlier in the week. said he thought it was a tricky situation but maybe Friedrich Mertz did need to go and this idea of a Kanzlertausch, a Chancellor swap, where someone else within the CDU could maybe take Friedrich Mertz's place. I put basically the same question to a man called Berghard Degger, the member of the CDU in Berlin and asked him if Mertz should stay.
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