Embattled German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has vowed to stay on despite exit polls in two local elections suggesting damaging defeats for his centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. In the north-eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the party was projected to only just scrape into parliament, while the AfD was on track to win the most votes.
Germany’s AfD is heading for a big victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, far ahead of its mainstream arrivals, exit polls say. It is not yet clear if that would be enough to take power in the state but the AfD says it has won a mandate to govern. The far-right party is projected
For over a year, both Stevens and El-Sayed have been laying out starkly different visions for Michigan and for the country. El-Sayed, who is 41 years old and the son of Egyptian immigrants, would be the first Muslim senator in the US, if elected. He’s been endorsed by leading left-wing politicians such as Vermont Senator