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| Merkel's Party Scores Strong Win in State Polls |
| 2017-05-08 |
| [An Nahar] Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives secured a strong win Sunday in state polls in northern Germany, early results showed, lending a boost to her bid to retain power in September's national elections. Voters in the small, northern state of Schleswig-Holstein handed her CDU party 34 percent, while the center-left SPD clinched 27, according to public broadcaster ZDF. Another public broadcaster ARD gave the CDU 33 percent and the SPD 26 percent. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Merkel by proxy also won the election in France yesterday. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2017-05-08 10:52 |