{"id":238586,"date":"2026-09-20T11:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T11:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/germans-head-to-the-polls-in-state-elections-as-pressure-mounts-on-merz\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T11:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T11:49:11","slug":"germans-head-to-the-polls-in-state-elections-as-pressure-mounts-on-merz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/germans-head-to-the-polls-in-state-elections-as-pressure-mounts-on-merz\/","title":{"rendered":"Germans head to the polls in state elections as pressure mounts on Merz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The AfD comes into Sunday&#8217;s vote fresh off the back of its election success in Saxony-Anhalt earlier this month and will be hoping for further gains.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/09\/20\/germans-head-to-the-polls-in-state-elections-as-pressure-mounts-on-merz\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The AfD comes into Sunday&#8217;s vote fresh off the back of its election success in Saxony-Anhalt earlier this month and will be hoping for further gains. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":238587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}