{"id":238658,"date":"2026-09-20T19:49:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/exit-polls-show-merzs-party-suffering-heavy-losses-in-2-german-state-elections\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T19:49:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T19:49:10","slug":"exit-polls-show-merzs-party-suffering-heavy-losses-in-2-german-state-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/09\/20\/exit-polls-show-merzs-party-suffering-heavy-losses-in-2-german-state-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Exit polls show Merz\u2019s party suffering heavy losses in 2 German state elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Merz\u2019s centre-right Christian Democratic Union is projected to fall to 5.5% in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. That would be its worst result there since World War II. The CDU is projected to come in second with 20%, behind the Left party at 24.5%, according to the exit poll by public broadcaster ARD<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/09\/20\/german-exit-polls-show-merzs-party-suffering-heavy-losses-in-2-german-state-elections\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merz\u2019s centre-right Christian Democratic Union is projected to fall to 5.5% in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. That would be its worst result there since World War II. The CDU is projected to come in second with 20%, behind the Left party at 24.5%, according to the exit poll by public broadcaster ARD Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":238659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238658","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\/238658","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=238658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}