Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, was last night dealt a political body-blow after one of her key allies appeared to lose a bitterly contested regional election. Her Christian Democratic party was thunderstruck when voters in the state of Hess abandoned the region’s prime minister, Roland Koch, an outspoken conservative who was once tipped to be a future Chancellor of Germany. Mr Koch admitted the scale of his defeat – “This is not personally easy for me” – but said that he would continue to fight for his position until the last vote was counted.
Appunti di un anonimo italiano
28/1/2008
