The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was shut out of a parliament for the first time, and the Left took Berlin
The last two state elections of the year gave the AfD its second state in two weeks, kept the CDU out of a state parliament for the first time and put the Left in charge of the capital. Friedrich Merz’s government lost at both ends on the same night, and the party that held the Federal Republic together for 81 years is the one being hollowed out.