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Top candidate of Germany's conservative CDU party for state elections in Baden-Wuerttemberg Susanne Eisenmann sits after exit poll results are published at the state parliament (Landtag) 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)