… percent, compared with 4.1 percent in 2013. Speaking the day after the vote in Hesse, Merkel, who had been the CDU … EP election while the Greens nearly doubled their vote to 20.5 percent and the AfD’s vote increased from 7 percent to … set off a firestorm. Kramp-Karrenbauer said it was “a bad day for Thuringia and a bad day for Germany” and that …