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German conservatives hail rare ‘big city’ win in Berlin

The top candidates of the Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), Kai Wegner, left, and the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Mayor of Berlin, Franziska Giffey, right, stay in a television studio in Berlin Germany, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023. Germany’s conservative Christian Democrats on Monday celebrated their victory in a Berlin state election re-run made necessary by serious voting glitches in 2021. The party said the result shows it can appeal to voters in urban areas with center-right policies that include tough talk on immigration. (Sebastian Christoph Gollnow/dpa via AP) The Berlin TV Tower, left, and the Rotes Rathaus townhall are pictured in Berlin, Monday, Feb. 13, 2023. Germany’s conservative Christian Democrats on Monday celebrated their victory in a Berlin state election re-run made necessary by serious voting glitches in 2021. The party said the result shows it can appeal to voters in urban areas with center-right policies that include tough talk on immigration. (Monika Skolimowska/dpa/dpa via AP) Friedrich Merz, left, chairman of the German Christian Democratic party (CDU) hands over a bunch of flowers to the party's top candidate for the Berlin state elections, Kai Wegner, right, during a party's executive committee meeting in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Feb 13, 2023. Germany's conservative Christian Democrats on Monday celebrated their victory in a Berlin state election re-run made necessary by serious voting glitches in 2021. The party said the result shows it can appeal to voters in urban areas with center-right policies that include tough talk on immigration. (Axel Heimken/dpa via AP) Franziska Giffey, right, Mayor of Berlin and top candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) for the Berlin state elections reacts with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, and SPD co-leader Lars Klingbeil, rear, at the party's headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Feb. 13, 2023. Germany's conservative Christian Democrats on Monday celebrated their victory in a Berlin state election re-run made necessary by serious voting glitches in 2021. The party said the result shows it can appeal to voters in urban areas with center-right policies that include tough talk on immigration(Fabrizio Bensch/Pool Photo via AP) Franziska Giffey, Governing Mayor of Berlin and top candidate of the Berlin SPD, is photographed during an interview at the SPD's election party at Festsaal Kreuzberg, in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023. After the 2021 election, Giffey, who belongs to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats, led the city as Berlin's mayor in a three-party left-wing governing coalition with the Greens and the Left party. The 44-year-old was running again Sunday. (Christophe Gateau/dpa via AP) The top candidate of the Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), Kai Wegner, celebrates after the state elections in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023. The city of Berlin on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023, holds a court-ordered rerun of a chaotic 2021 state election that was marred by severe glitches at many polling stations. (Fabian Sommer/dpa via AP)
German conservatives hail rare ‘big city’ win in Berlin