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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Christian Democratic Union, CDU, chairwoman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer attend a parties board meeting at the headquarters in Berlin, Monday, May 27, 2019. Germany's governing parties slid to their worst post-World War II showing in a nationwide election at the European Parliament elections yesterday. Merkel's center-right Union bloc drops down from 35.4 to 28.9 percents. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)