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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Merkel party suffers setback in election warm-up AFP - Monday, August 31 BERLIN (AFP) - - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative party suffered a setback Sunday a month before general elections, with preliminary results indicating it will lose control in two states. ADVERTISEMENT Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) held onto power in the eastern state of Saxony but appeared to see its ruling majorities slip away in neighbouring Thuringia and Saarland on the French border. But the results, largely expected, seemed unlikely to knock Merkel off course in her drive to win a second term in the September 27 vote, with the CDU enjoying around a 15-point poll lead on the the rival Social Democrats (SPD). An overwhelming 87 percent of Germans expect Merkel to win, according to a new survey from pollsters Emnid published on Sunday, with just nine percent predicting victory for the SPD's candidate Frank-Walter Steinmeier. Some 6.2 million voters were eligible to cast ballots in the state elections. Initial results on public television showed the CDU's share of the vote falling by more than 10 percentage points in both Thuringia and Saarland, where the state premiers are both currently from the CDU. In Saxony, the CDU's share of the vote was little changed at about 41 percent. Because of Germany's complex coalition arithmetic, it could take several weeks until it is clear which alliances will rule Thuringia and Saarland. The CDU, however, failed in its attempt to achieve a governing majority with its partner of choice, the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP). Steinmeier, who is also deputy chancellor and foreign minister, expressed confidence that the weekend elections would help turn the tide in his favour. "What does this election night mean for the national election? Those who said that the election was already decided have made a big mistake," he told cheering supporters. CDU general secretary Ronald Pofalla acknowledged disappointment at the elections' outcome but said the Social Democrats would gain no momentum from them for the national poll. "The results from the state elections have both their bright and dark spots from the point of view of the CDU," Pofalla said. "We were the strongest party in all three states and left the SPD behind us in all three. We remain the only people's party in Germany." The state polls came at the end of a tough week for Merkel, marked by turmoil over the future of automaker Opel, sniping between her conservatives and the FDP, and a flap over a dinner she held for Germany's top banker. The SPD may now be able to form coalitions in Thuringia and Saarland with the Greens and the far-left Die Linke, a relatively new party comprised of disaffected SPD members and former East German communists. Such "red-red" coalitions are common in the east of the reunited country but have been taboo in the west, where many see Die Linke as too radical and tainted by its historical links with the party that built the Berlin Wall. Saarland would be the first western state to see such a governing alliance. Merkel, who grew up behind the Iron Curtain, warned in regional campaign appearances against the rise of Die Linke as Germany marks 20 years since the Wall's collapse. And Guido Westerwelle, head of the FDP, said Sunday that the result showed that the SDP would be willing to link up with Die Linke at national level -- something that Steinmeier has ruled out. Newspapers played down the significance of the state results. "Interpreting this setback (for Merkel) as a clear signal of a turnaround in the battle for Berlin in four weeks is wide of the mark," the Financial Times Deutschland said in an editorial. Meanwhile, the far-right National Democratic Party, which stunned the country by scoring 9.2 percent in Saxony in 2004, appeared to manage for the first time to be re-elected to a state parliament by just clearing the five-percent hurdle required for seats. 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