Political Parties React To Bavaria And Hesse State Elections Results

BERLIN, GERMANY - OCTOBER 09: Friedrich Merz (L), leader of the German Christian Democrats (CDU), welcomes Boris Rhein (C), incumbent and lead CDU candidate in the state of Hesse, at CDU party headquarters the day after state elections in Hesse on October 9, 2023 in Berlin, Germany. The CDU won in Hesse by a large margin and the CDU’s Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), won in state elections in Bavaria. The election results dealt a sobering blow to the governing federal coalition of Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and Free Democrats (FDP), with all three parties taking sharp losses in both elections compared to the respective previous elections. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)