… percent, compared with 4.1 percent in 2013. Speaking the day after the vote in Hesse, Merkel said “the results are a … into question. In the EP election, the CDU and CSU won 28.9 percent of the vote, a loss of 6.5 percentage points … set off a firestorm. Kramp-Karrenbauer said it was “a bad day for Thuringia and a bad day for Germany.” Merkel said, …