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Edition: U.S. Article Comments (0) Full Focus Photos of the week Our top photos from the past week. Full Article Follow Reuters Merkel party set to hold onto German state Tweet Share this By David Stamp BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives appeared set to keep control in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, election projections showed on Sunday, but face a much tougher credibility test next... Email Print Related News Egyptians vote on reform Sat, Mar 19 2011 U.N. okays military action on Libya Thu, Mar 17 2011 UPDATE 3-Merkel aims to speed Germany's nuclear energy exit Thu, Mar 17 2011 UPDATE 3-Germany to shut down pre-1980 nuclear plants Tue, Mar 15 2011 Germany to shut down pre-1980 nuclear plants Tue, Mar 15 2011 Analysis & Opinion The danger of spent-fuel rods and the Yucca Mountain project What happens to home values if you live near a nuclear reactor? Related Topics World » By David Stamp BERLIN | Sun Mar 20, 2011 4:10pm EDT BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives appeared set to keep control in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, election projections showed on Sunday, but face a much tougher credibility test next week. Saxony-Anhalt marked the first of three provincial polls this weekend and next, and Merkel still risks suffering a major setback in the much bigger Baden-Wuerttemberg state on March 27, despite a nuclear policy U-turn and military opt-out in Libya. The ARD television projection based on exit polls showed support for Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) slipping 3.5 percentage points to 32.7 percent. But that was modest compared with an electoral thrashing the CDU suffered in Hamburg last month, when its share of the vote plunged over 20 points. German election projections tend to be reliable and this one suggests that the CDU is likely to renew its grand coalition with the Social Democrats. They were projected to come third with 21.5 percent behind the Left party led by Wulf Gallert, a former member of the east German communist party. Regional elections count because the state parliaments send representatives to the Bundesrat, the upper house of parliament, and results particularly in the larger states can boost or weaken the authority of national leaders. The big winners proportionately were the anti-nuclear Greens, who are usually weak in a state with a large chemicals industry. The projection showed their share of the vote virtually doubling from the last elections in 2006 to 7.0 percent following Japan's nuclear crisis. That puts them over the five percent hurdle for entering the state parliament. "We have a chance that in Baden-Wuerttemberg ... the first Green state premier will be elected," national party leader Cem Oezdemir told ZDF television. A BITTER DEFEAT By contrast the liberal Free Democrats (FDP), the junior partner in Merkel's federal coalition, appeared on the way out of the Saxony-Anhalt parliament. Their vote tumbled to 3.9 percent, according to the projection. "Today (we've suffered) a bitter defeat," said the FDP's national leader Guido Westerwelle, who as Foreign Minister has come under fire for Berlin's refusal to support its NATO allies in a U.N. resolution authorizing military action in Libya. CDU and Social Democrat (SPD) candidates barely criticized each other during the campaign and appear set to renew their coalition. But the Left party will try to woo the SPD. "The SPD must decide whether they take their program seriously. That's only possible with the Left party," Left party national co-leader Klaus Ernst told ZDF television. The far-right NPD party narrowly failed to enter the state parliament with 4.7 percent, the projection showed. In the past week Merkel has taken two major policy decisions which should, on the face of it, prove popular with voters. First she suspended her unpopular nuclear policy and ordered the closure of seven aging reactors, responding to the risk of a meltdown at Japan's Fukushima plant. 1 2 Next World Tweet this Share this Link this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story directly or with relevant tangential information. We try to block comments that use offensive language, all capital letters or appear to be spam, and we review comments frequently to ensure they meet our standards. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above. 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