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Angela Merkel: Still Ms Popular, but her coalition is being put to the test (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

Regional elections spell trouble for Merkel

The Social Democrats and Greens narrowly won the elections in Lower Saxony on Sunday (20 January), indicating a tougher-than-expected race for Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right coalition at general elections in September.

At the end of a race that pollsters said was too close to call, it all came down to less than one percent of the vote: the so-called "Red-Green" camp scored 46.3 percent of the vote and got one seat more in the regional parliament, enough to topple the ruling "Bl...

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Angela Merkel: Still Ms Popular, but her coalition is being put to the test (Photo: consilium.europa.eu)

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