Germany's Christian Democrats (CDU) got a boost on Sunday (2 October) after a delayed election in Dresden gave the party an extra seat in parliament.
The results of the Dresden elections will not change the outcome of the general elections two weeks ago which saw the CDU narrowly beat the ruling Social Democrats, but it does provide an important symbolic victory.
Preliminary results gave the CDU 37 percent of the vote, followed by 32.1 percent for the SPD and 19.23 percent for the...
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