… percent, compared with 4.1 percent in 2013. Speaking the day after the vote in Hesse, Merkel, who had been the CDU … CDU’s vote fell by more than seven percentage points, from 23 percent in the 2014 election to 15.6 percent, while the … set off a firestorm. Kramp-Karrenbauer said it was “a bad day for Thuringia and a bad day for Germany” and that …