German Chancellor Angela Merkel's coalition lost its majority in the upper house after Sunday's (9 May) vote in the region of North Rhine-Westphalia.
According to preliminary results, Ms Merkel's Christian Democrats only scored 34.6 percent, while their Liberal junior partner, the Free Democrats, took 6.7 - insufficient for the two to continue governing alone in the western region of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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