… percent. And in Hesse, the vote for the CDU dropped by 11.3 percentage points, from 38.3 percent in 2013 to 27 … percent, compared with 4.1 percent in 2013. Speaking the day after the vote in Hesse, Merkel said “the results are a … set off a firestorm. Kramp-Karrenbauer said it was “a bad day for Thuringia and a bad day for Germany.” Merkel said, …