German center-right hopes to hold key state amid flood flap


              Friedrich Merz, CDU federal chairman, at a press conference on the complaint against the second supplementary budget law 2021 in Berlin, Germany, April 8, 2022. (Carsten Koall/dpa via AP)
            
              Friedrich Merz, CDU federal chairman, at a press conference on the complaint against the second supplementary budget law 2021 in Berlin, Germany, April 8, 2022. (Carsten Koall/dpa via AP)
German center-right hopes to hold key state amid flood flap