German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party has suffered losses in two of the three states that help regional elections, exit polls suggested on Sunday.
They indicate the Christian Democrats lost support in Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland Palatinate, but remain the largest party in Saxony-Anhalt.
The anti-migrant AfD achieved gains in all three states, exit polls indicate.
The elections were seen as a test of support for Chancellor Merkel’s policy of accommodating refugees.
More than a million migrants and refugees entered Germany in 2015.
In the western state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, exit polls suggest the Christian Democrats (CDU) were defeated by the Greens.
Earlier, polls had put the AfD’s support as high as 19 per cent in Saxony-Anhalt, where the CDU and the Social Democrats now govern in coalition.
Source: BBC
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