CDU Claims Victory in North Rhine-Westphalia Local Elections, Far-Right AfD Achieves Record Gains
CDU Claims Victory in North Rhine-Westphalia Local Elections, Far-Right AfD Achieves Record Gains As final tallies emerge from Sunday’s municipal elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) has secured a decisive victory. Initial forecasts, now confirmed, show the CDU taking approximately 34% of the vote. However, the elections, the first local polls since Friedrich Merz assumed the chancellorship in May, also marked a significant milestone for the far-right Alternative for Germany…