Angela Merkel vowed to fight hard to win another term as chancellor in September on the back of her party?s electoral victory in a state election in western Germany.
Instead, Merkel?s Christian Democratic Union posted its biggest win in the state in 13 years, after a campaign that included raising the specter of the anti-capitalist Left party entering the state government.
?We have seen from yesterday?s results that we still have a lot of work to do in the six months ahead,? Merkel told reporters on Monday in Berlin.
The CDU benefited from a popular state premier, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, a Merkel ally who supported her throughout the refugee crisis even as some other party leaders turned on her.
Merkel said the vote in Saarland shows that elections are often won in the last two weeks, and she signaled that she will focus her campaigning in the national contest to August and September.
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