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Partial results from Bavaria's state election Sunday show the ruling Christian Social Union is losing its majority in a humiliating performance that is likely to rattle German Chancellor Angela Merkel's fragile "grand coalition" government.
The
Christian Social Union, or CSU -- the Bavarian sister party to Merkel's
conservative Christian Democrat Union, or CDU -- has dominated politics
in the state since the end of World War II, ruling for all but three
years for nearly seven decades.
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