… percent, compared with 4.1 percent in 2013. Speaking the day after the vote in Hesse, Merkel, who had been the CDU … 2018 and wouldn’t seek reelection as chancellor in the 2021 federal election: “This my fourth term is my last term … set off a firestorm. Kramp-Karrenbauer said it was “a bad day for Thuringia and a bad day for Germany” and that …