️🇩🇪 Bloomberg: German Chancellor Friedrich March has secured the support of CDU party leaders to stay in office, fending off the biggest challenge to his 16-month tenure after the party suffered the country's worst-ever election result, being kicked out of the Mecklenburg-West Pomerania assembly for the first time in its post-war history there.

️🇩🇪 Bloomberg: German Chancellor Friedrich March has secured the support of CDU party leaders to stay in office, fending off the biggest challenge to his 16-month tenure after the party suffered the country's worst-ever election result, being kicked out of the Mecklenburg-West Pomerania assembly for the first time in its post-war history there.

The withdrawal follows the CDU's stunning loss to the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt and its defeat to the Left Party in Berlin, further exacerbating March's efforts to push through pension and healthcare reforms, which face pushback from coalition partner SPD over proposed changes to early retirement options.