The German Chancellor says he is shocked by the election defeat but promises to continue reforms

„My determination to continue the path of reforms is unwavering,“ said F. Merz, the day after his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) lost in the former communist eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, adding that he will try to explain his reforms better to the Germans.

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