German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and their Social Democrat (...
BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives and their Social Democrat coalition partners turned their sights with some relief on new hurdles months down the road after withstanding a far-right battering in two eastern regional elections on Sunday.
The AfD harnessed voter anger over refugees and the planned closure of coal mines in the formerly communist east, casting itself as the heir of the demonstrators who brought about the fall of the Berlin Wall three decades ago. The setbacks for the CDU and SPD were not as great as feared and they took the reprieve as a cue to deliver tangible results before an autumn mid-term review of the national coalition and the SPD’s party congress in December.
Leaders from the ruling coalition parties are due to meet in Berlin on Monday evening to chart an immediate way ahead.
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