# What Is the Common Denominator in Germany’s Elections?

https://mins.news/en/video/67749

- TRT World, 2026-09-21 17:37 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX1llQngDwU

> Despite another disastrous election showing by Germany’s governing Christian Democratic Union, Chancellor Friedrich Merz has pledged to remain in office. He called the party’s heavy defeats in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin a “disaster.” Stanford University’s Ulrich Brückner weighs in.

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