🇩🇪 Germany – Sunday, 20 September 2026
**Berlin and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern vote today**
Polls opened this morning in both state elections, with results due this evening. Merz has called a CDU executive-committee meeting for tonight, once exit polls land, to seek an explicit reaffirmation of support for his reform course or a request that he name a successor.
Previously:
The Local Germany
Germany's Merz plans high-stakes party meeting after Sunday's state polls
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz plans an executive committee meeting of his centre-right CDU on Sunday, straight after two state elections are hel...