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Mainz, Germany (dpa) - Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives are ahead in the Rhineland-Palatinate election, exit polls showed on Sunday, threatening to end 35 years of rule by the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) in the south-western state. The result would be a major defeat for the SPD, the junior coalition partner in Merz's national government, in the second of five state elections being held across Germany this year. Exit polls by publ......

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