# Exit polls show ‘disaster’ for Merz’s CDU in two state elections

https://mins.news/en/video/66424

- France 24 English, 2026-09-20 16:54 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCLJy6wE28g

> Germans voted in state elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Exit polls point to a dramatic setback for Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union party.

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