The CDU under new party chief Armin Laschet won around 37 percent of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt, partial results showed, well ahead of the second place far-right party AfD on 21 percent.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced "solidarity" with Israel in a phone call with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, and called for a swift end to the worst Israeli-Palestinian violence in years.
"The chancellor again sharply condemned the continued rocket attacks from Gaza on Israel and assured the prime minister of the German government's solidarity," Merkel's spokesman Steffen Seibert said in a statement after the call. "She reaffirmed Israel's right to defend itself aga ..
Germany's centre right has fended off a challenge by the far right in the last regional test before national polls in September, an exit poll suggests.
The Christian Democrats (CDU) of Chancellor Angela Merkel won 36% of the vote in the state election in Saxony-Anhalt, a former part of East Germany.
It did much better than opinion polls had predicted.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) took 22.5% after nearly equalling the CDU in the opinion polls.
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Mrs Merkel has dominated German politics as chancellor since 2005, leading an uneasy coalition with the CDU's old leftwing political foe, the Social Democrats (SDP), after the last election in 2017.
A centrist figure, Armin Laschet, has been picked to succeed her as the CDU's leader in the September election.
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