Angela Merkel's CDU 'suffers Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania poll blow'

Angela Merkel's ruling CDU party has been beaten into third place by an anti-immigrant and anti-Islam party in elections in a north-eastern German state, partial results have shown. The Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) party took about 21% of the vote behind the centre-left SPD's 30%. -- More... The German chancellor's CDU was backed by only about 19% of those who voted, according to the partial results.