… percent, compared with 4.1 percent in 2013. Speaking the day after the vote in Hesse, Merkel, who had been the CDU … On the other side of the party spectrum, the AfD won 22 seats, the CDU won 21 seats, and the Free Democrats won … set off a firestorm. Kramp-Karrenbauer said it was “a bad day for Thuringia and a bad day for Germany” and that …