… Syria and elsewhere that began in 2013 and peaked in 2015-16. Kramp-Karrenbauer, known colloquially as AKK, was first … 10.2 percent. 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, who had been the CDU …