Angela Merkel. File photo: JOHN THYS/AFPChancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives secured a strong win Sunday in state polls in northern Germany, early results showed. Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives secured a strong win Sunday in state polls in northern Germany, early results showed, lending a boost to her bid to retain power in September's national elections. Voters in the small, northern state of Schleswig-Holstein handed her CDU party 34 percent, while the centre-left SPD clinched 27, according to public broadcaster ZDF. Another public broadcaster ARD gave the CDU 33 percent and the SPD 26 percent.

Source: The Local May 07, 2017 16:07 UTC