… 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 … fell by more than a third, from 33.5 percent in 2014 to 21.7 percent, while the vote for the AfD more than doubled, …