Merkel's party crushed in Hamburg

All Chancellor Merkel's CDU could muster in votes yesterday in Hamburg's local elections represented a mere 21.9 %  of the total, read here.

An earlier report from February last year in the same news source, Der Spiegel, suggested Merkel's governing coaltion could itself soon be in jeopardy, read here. Can she survive yet another year with more local elections due next month?

It is a sad day indeed for Britain, when local elections in Germany become of such crucial importance to the future and well being of our own country, to understand why this shoul be please visit the two postings immediately beneath this, linked here and here.