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Baden-Wuerttemberg's State Premier and top candidate of the Greens Winfried Kretschmann sits at the state parliament (Landtag) after exit poll results were published in Stuttgart, southern Germany, at the end of state elections in Baden-Wuerttemberg on March 14, 2021. - Germans went to the polls in two key regional elections, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives bracing for a drubbing on anger over a corruption scandal and a series of pandemic setbacks. The votes for new regional parliaments in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Wuerttemberg are seen as a bellwether ahead of September 26 general elections -- which will be the first in over 15 years not to feature Merkel. (Photo by Thomas KIENZLE / AFP) (KEYSTONE/AFP/THOMAS KIENZLE)