# Live: CDU responds after state election setback

https://mins.news/en/video/67197

- DW News, 2026-09-21 10:32 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXBIxSjeJMA

> All eyes are on German Chancellor Friedrich Merz as the CDU responds to a historic defeat in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state election and a loss to the far left in Berlin. Party leaders are discussing the path ahead for Germany’s governing conservatives.

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