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Exit polls: Defeats for Merkel's party in 2 German states

by Geir Moulson
| March 14, 2021 10:33 AM

BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right party was headed for clear defeats in two German state elections on Sunday at the hands of popular governors from parties further to the left, exit polls indicated — six months before a national vote that will determine who succeeds the country's longtime leader.

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