Bernhard
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I'm no big fan of Merkel, and hope her center-right CDU will be diselected, but I sure don't want the far-right AfD anywhere near a good result.
And why don't knows a German like you that Mrs. Angela Mekel is no candidate from her own political home party CDU? The candidate of the CDU for the new chancellor of Germany is Mr. Armin Laschet. But this had not a lot to do with this elections. The good guy in this context had been Reiner Haselhoff, the minister president of Sachsen-Anhalt. I'm very happy about him and the good job he did do.
I know very well Merkel was not running in that state, but you know very well that what happens on national level always has influence on voting decisions on state level, too, just like the majorities in the states influence the power of the federal government via the Bundesrat.
Besides, my statement about CDU and AfD was not limited to the state of Saxony-Anhalt, where I'm not living anyway, but speaking in general ... I don't like the AfD on national level any more than I like their Saxony-Anhalt section.