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High stakes for Merkel's government as German region votes
Final result expected late Sunday or early Monday
28 October, 13:20
(AP-ANSA) - BERLIN - The central German region of Hesse is
voting in a state election marked by discontent with infighting
in the national government and expected to help determine
whether Chancellor Angela Merkel's administration has a
long-term future. Sunday's election for the legislature in
Hesse, which includes Germany's financial center, Frankfurt,
comes with support for the country's governing parties sliding
and tensions high in a federal coalition in office only since
March. Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union is
defending its 19-year hold on Hesse, previously a stronghold of
the center-left Social Democrats, the chancellor's coalition
partners in Berlin. A disastrous result for either or both
parties could further destabilize the national government.
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