German Chancellor Angela Merkel‘s campaign to sell her commitment to the eurozone debt recovery process may have been too little too late, as the results of a state election in Germany last week showed that support at the ballot box is waning for the chancellor’s Christian Democratic Union. An election in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state was the sixth this year, and it marked the sixth in a row where Merkel has lost votes.

Some say Merkel’s attempts to convince voters to accept her eurozone rescue plan are falling on an especially hesitant electorate. The northern Mecklenburg-Western Pomerian region, which sits along the coast of the Baltic Sea, was a part of East Germany until 1990. Last week Merkel’s party won the fewest votes ever in the region since the reunification of Germany in 1990, when voting began in the state.


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The lack of voter enthusiasm for Merkel’s campaign, which was interrupted this month only by the death of her father, Horst Kasner, on Friday, is a troubling sign for the leader. Merkel is considered to be a super-power among the world’s decision-makers, as she holds significant abilities to deter the euro zone crisis from worsening into another market crash. Her support at home, however, is hinged on her ability to convince voters they are not paying too much for the mistakes of their neighbors like debt-heavy Greece and Italy. So far, Merkel’s attempts to convince Germans that a eurobond is not in her near-term plans has not calmed fears that Germans’ savings will be affected.

The opposing left-leaning Social Democratic Party, which has worked in coalition with the CDU as the ruling party in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania region, strengthened in the election. The SDP won 35.7% of the vote, a 5.5% increase from the last election in 2006. Votes for Merkel’s CDU party dropped 5.7% to 23.1% of the vote. The Left Party, a direct descendent from the former East German Communist Party, came in third with 18.4% of the vote, a 1.6% increase from the last election.

Support for the capitalist and enterprise-friendly Free Democrat party shrunk to 2.7% of the vote, a 7% decline from the last election that cost the party their seats in the state parliament. The extremist right-leaning NPD group won 6% of the vote, winning seats and reopening the door to criticism from most party leaders for its anti-immigrant stance, among other ideals.

The Green Party, which has built its platform this year on its anti-nuclear agenda, gained 3.4% more votes than in the last election, winning 8.4%, and signaling a parliament presence in all of Germany’s 16 states.

“The victory of the Greens shows that the political center is being reshuffled.” said Karl-Rudolf Korte, a political scientist at the University of Duisburg-Essen, in an interview with ZDF, according to Bloomberg.

Only 51% of registered voters, or 1.4 million people, showed up to vote in the election, leading to some speculation about the turnout in the forthcoming election in Berlin on September 18, where Merkel’s parliament is situated. Elections may be increasingly based on slowing economic indicators in Germany. Gross domestic product for the nation was slower in Q2 than in Q1, up only 0.5% from the year before. Net trade decreased 0.3% and inventories increased 0.7% as exports slowed. A report showing the confidence for the service sector dropped to a 28-month low to a PPI index level of 51.1, from 52.9 in July.

The euro fell 0.4% to 1.41 against the dollar Monday.