Merkel’s party set to LOSE power in Berlin as exit polls show WORST result in history
GERMANY’S Angela Merkel was dealt another blow tonight to her open door immigration policy in the vote to elect a new city government in Berlin.
By ALLAN HALL
Express.co.uk
Sun, Sep 18, 2016
Exit polls said her ascendant arch-political rival – the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party – scored 11.5 percent of the vote a fortnight after it pushed the chancellor’s CDU conservatives into third place in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, her home state.
Her conservative CDU party is predicted to come in second place, with 18 percent of the vote, behind the centre-left SPD which polled 23 percent.
But that is likely to mean the SPD ditches its coalition with the CDU, to instead team up with the Green Party and the hard-left Die Linke, who both won a predicted 27 per cent of the vote.
If the exit poll is accurate the result would be the worst election performance in history for the CDU in the Berlin state elections.
While not a wipe out for Merkel’s CDU, the fact that the anti-EU, anti-immigrant and anti-refugee AfD party could score such a high percentage of the poll in multi-cultural and ‘hip’ Berlin is an indication of how far Merkel has alienated voters with her refusal to change direction on the migrant issue.
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