Merz perd du terrain à l’Est tandis que le système partisan allemand se fracture
Suite de l’édition de ce matin.
Friedrich Merz's CDU endured a double blow in state elections that felt less local than structural. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the AfD won 38.2% and pushed the CDU below the 5% threshold, leaving the party without seats in a state parliament for the first time in postwar German history. In Berlin, Die Linke led with 25.7%, while the CDU trailed at 18.8% and the AfD reached 16.3%.
The numbers show a centre-right party squeezed from both ends, with the AfD harvesting rural and working-class anger in the east while Die Linke turned Berlin's housing and cost-of-living politics into votes.
- AfD, Mecklembourg-Poméranie-Occidentale38,2
- SPD, Mecklembourg-Poméranie-Occidentale35,5
- CDU, Mecklembourg-Poméranie-Occidentale4,9
- Die Linke, Berlin25,7
- CDU, Berlin18,8
- AfD, Berlin16,3
Friedrich Merz rejected calls to resign and argued that the turbulence now exceeds one leader's fortunes.
« We are witnessing a deep change in the party system in Germany, this goes beyond the question of my person. »
Markets treated the result as noise for now, with the DAX rising 1.2%, partly because Germany's largest listed firms sell far beyond Germany. But the federal coalition controls 328 of 630 Bundestag seats, leaving only a modest cushion if conservative dissent hardens. The next test is not whether Friedrich Merz can explain the vote, but whether he can pass tax, pension and growth reforms while his party's regional base cracks beneath him.
D’après : Do Rzeczy, Deutsche Welle, Rzeczpospolita, wnp.pl, KrytykaPolityczna.pl, naTemat.pl