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AFP
Berlin
German Chancellor Angela Merkel vowed Monday to"win back trust"from voters after squabbling within her three-party coalition was blamed for severe election losses in the state of Bavaria.
Looking back at a turbulent year since 2017 general elections, which saw painful coalition talks followed by harsh infighting on immigration, she conceded that"a lot of trust has been lost".
Her lesson from Sunday's Bavaria polls, where her governing partners the CSU and the SPD suffered heavy losses, was that"I as the chancellor must do more to ensure that this trust is there".
Her own Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party the CSU"can be expected to act in a united way,"she said, pointing to her deep rift with the CSU's hardline Interior Minister Horst Seehofer.
The governing parties were in shell-shock after Sunday's regional election, where the CSU took a 10-point dive to 37 percent, losing its absolute majority in the Alpine state it has ruled since the 1960s.
Merkel's other national coalition partner, the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), dropped to 9.7 percent, halving their support in their worst-ever result in any state poll.
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