FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends the weekly cabinet meeting at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany March 10, 2021. Markus Schreiber/Pool via REUTERS
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's pro-business Free Democrats, emerging as a pivotal force ahead of September elections, worry that declining support for Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats could scupper their chances of joining up to keep the centre-right in power.
An internal Free Democrats (FDP) analysis reveals that the party privately considers the CDU's slide in two state elections last weekend as a potential "catastrophe" for the centre-right camp, even as the FDP publicly celebrates its own resurgence.
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