# Chancellor Merz calls state election defeats a ‘disaster’ but vows to stay

https://mins.news/en/video/66940

- BBC News, 2026-09-21 07:01 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g75Ll4lBwp8

> German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has described two local election defeats for his Christian Democratic Union as a “disaster”, while pledging to remain in office. In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the CDU failed to clear the 5% threshold for parliament; the far-right Alternative for Germany was projected to lead the vote but was unlikely to…

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