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Merkel's party is easily biggest in Saarland

Exit polls, CDU take 40% of the votes

26 March, 18:30

(ANSA) - BERLIN -Exit polls indicate that Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party has emerged easily as the strongest party from an election in Germany's western Saarland state — an unexpectedly strong performance and a disappointment for her center-left rivals.
The exit polls for ARD and ZDF - AP reported - public television showed Merkel's Christian Democrats polling up to 41 percent in Sunday's election for Saarland's state legislature. The polls had their center-left rivals, the Social Democrats, receiving up to 30 percent of the vote. Surveys ahead of the election — the first of three state votes scheduled before Merkel seeks a fourth term in a national election in September — suggested that the Social Democrats might be able to form a new coalition with the Left Party,
which polled some 13 percent.
The nationalist Alternative for Germany was seen entering the state legislature with 6 percent of the vote. 

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