Germany's Old Political Guard Suffers Another Setback

Since 1966 Germany's conservative Christian Social Union has been the majority party in its home-state of Bavaria, but on Sunday the long-run ended when voters disillusioned with its courting of the far-right flocked to the Green Party. The Christian Social Union, or CSU, the Bavarian sister party of Angela Merkel's Christian Democrat Union, or CDU, has dominated politics in Bavaria since the end of World War II.  For only three years in the past seven decades has the CSU not...

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