German Chancellor Angela Merkel shakes hands with Saxony Prime Minister and top CDU candidate Michael Kretschmer next to Leader of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and the top CDU candidate from Brandenburg, Ingo Senftleben during a news conference after the regional elections in Saxony and Brandenburg, in Berlin, Germany, September 2, 2019. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and their Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners turned their sights with some relief on new hurdles months down the road after withstanding a far-right battering in two eastern regional elections on Sunday.
Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats and the SPD clung on as the largest parties in Saxony and Brandenburg respectively but bled support to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), which came second in both states.
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