🇩🇪 Germany – Sunday, 20 September 2026
**Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern vote today**
Polls opened this morning in both state elections, with results due this evening. Merz has called a CDU executive-committee meeting for tonight, once exit polls land, to seek an explicit reaffirmation of support for his reform course or a request that he name a successor.
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The Local Germany
Germany's Merz plans high-stakes party meeting after Sunday's state polls
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz plans an executive committee meeting of his centre-right CDU on Sunday, straight after two state elections are hel...
🇩🇪 Germany – Friday, 18 September 2026
**Berlin poll: five-way scramble two days out**
A new Politpro tracking poll puts Die Linke first at 20.6%, CDU second at 19.9%, AfD third at 17.8%, ahead of Grüne (16%) and SPD (12.1%); the governing CDU-SPD alliance would fall short of a majority. Nationally CDU support has slid to 18%, ten points behind the AfD, with Merz's own approval at just 14%.
https://politpro.eu/en/berlin/election/parliament/2026
**Merz weighs a confidence showdown**
Insiders say Merz plans to summon the CDU's executive committee on Sunday election night with an ultimatum: back an expanded reform course despite likely losses, or replace him with a named successor. 58% of CDU voters now want him gone, against 36% who don't.
https://www.archyde.com/cdu-leader-merz-faces-leadership-showdown-and-possible-confidence-vote-after-sunday-elections/
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