… sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), in the September 26 Bundestag election remains to be seen; the CDU … Angela Merkel won’t be the candidate for the first since 2005, having decided in late 2018, after the CDU experienced … losses to the AfD. In Brandenburg, the CDU vote fell from 23 percent in 2014 to 15.6 percent, while the vote for the …