Conservative forces won clear victories in both the states of Bavaria and Hesse. In Bavaria, the Christian Social Union (CSU), a sister-party to the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), is projected to win 37 percent of the vote. In Hesse, the CDU is set to win 34.6 percent of the vote.
The increased performance of the AfD can only worry every democrat in this country," Ricarda Lang, a co-leader of the Greens, said on public television. "I would like to see us move away from finger-pointing and for every democratic party to now consider what we can do to make [the election results] look different again in the future."
The German economy has been stuck in an extended rut, precipitated in part by the surge in energy prices that followed Russia's invasion of Ukraine. A sharp rise in the number of asylum seekers ente...
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