Merkel facing HUMILIATION at the polls as voters set to hit back against migrant policy…(About Time!!)
ANGELA Merkel faces political humiliation at the hands of German voters for her open-door migrant policy in a backlash which could obliterate her party at this weekend’s elections.
By OLI SMITH
Express.co.uk
Fri, Mar 11, 2016
Chancellor Angela Merkel could see voters furious at her open-door approach to immigration hit back in elections on Sunday in what pundits have labelled the first test for her “generous” migrant policy.
The Chancellor became the symbol of hope for many migrants after she allowed more than one million to rush into Europe’s largest economy to apply for asylum.
The controversial move was attacked as “naive” by many members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and alienated large swathes of the German public.
Now, one in five Germans will go the ballot box in the first electoral test for Mrs Merkel, 61, before national parliamentary elections next year
More than 12million of Germany’s 62m eligible voters may cast ballots as the country’s regional politicians face the political front line of the migration crisis.
Polls suggest Mrs Merkel’s CDU will lose its majority in Baden-Württemberg, a prosperous area in Germany’s south-west, to the Green Party.
Germans have also been shown flocking towards the Alternative for Deutschland (AfD), a populist, anti-immigrant party.
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