Merkel’s party admits Covid failings

By AFP
March 16, 2021

BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party on Monday admitted it must manage the pandemic better after suffering heavy losses in two regional polls, six months before a general election. The centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) scored its worst-ever results in the southwestern states of Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate, according to preliminary results.