Merkel’s CDU faces tough test in German state elections

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right Christian Democratic Union is going to Sunday’s Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate state elections amid discontent over a slow start to the vaccination drive and as a long and unpopular lockdown. The CDU is also facing allegations that two lawmakers from the party profited from deals to procure masks in the early days of the Covid outbreak.

Merkel’s CDU faces tough test in German state elections

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