# ‘It’s going to be very hard for Friedrich Merz to regain control’

https://mins.news/en/video/49281

- euronews, 2026-09-08 07:05 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rmQGxULQz4

> Following a major defeat to the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt, former German government spokesman Béla Anda told Europe Today that Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s biggest mistake was “poor communication” and that regaining control would be very difficult.

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