Financial Times: “It’s disastrous for the CDU,” said Andreas Rödder, a history professor at Mainz University, warning the party now faced an “existential risk”.
The scale of the defeat triggered crisis meetings at CDU headquarters in Berlin on Monday. Hours later, Saxony-Anhalt premier Sven Schulze resigned.
One party insider warned the result risked accelerating a downward spiral, with regional elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern less than two weeks away…
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