Party Merkel wins in Schleswig-Holstein

keel - The party of Chancellor Angela Merkel stalled in a victory in the Schleswig-Holstein state elections. According to forecasts of the television stations ARD and ZDF based on exit polls, the CDU received 33 percent of the votes on Sunday.

The SPD, which is in the northern state in a government with the Greens and the regional SSW, suffered a definite defeat by 26 percent. The Greens and SSW also lost The SSW remains 3 percent below the 5 percent voting threshold, like the Pirates and Die Linke. The right-populated Alternative für Deutschland seems to just come across the threshold.