… 2018 and wouldn’t seek reelection as chancellor in 2021. The 2018 setbacks were preceded by significant losses … percent, compared with 4.1 percent in 2013. Speaking the day after the vote in Hesse, Merkel said “the results are a … into question. In the EP election, the CDU and CSU won 28.9 percent of the vote, a loss of 6.5 percentage points …