The AfD comes first in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Friedrich Merz's CDU misses the 5% threshold for the first time in its history

• Lithuania

  «Vilnius first gauges the political weakening of Friedrich Merz, whose CDU fails for the first time in its history to enter a Landtag, before commenting on the AfD's breakthrough itself.»

  What each one tells

  same framing

  Hungary

  «Budapest sees the CDU's debacle as a sign that the German cordon sanitaire against the far right is crumbling, and is watching Friedrich Merz's political survival.»

• Lithuania

  CDU-centric

  «headlines about the election lead with the CDU's historic defeat and Friedrich Merz's reaction, relying on a comparison with the previous 1951 record rather than the AfD's platform.»

  of the AfD's isolation

  «coverage emphasizes the other parties' refusal to govern with the election winner rather than the content of its platform.»

  What the account puts first

  Hungary

  focused on Merz's survival

  «Hungarian headlines put the chancellor's fate front and center rather than the AfD's program or government intentions.»

• Lithuania

  Reliance on foreign press

  «the possibility of a change in CDU leadership is reported through sources cited by the Financial Times, without attribution to a local source.»

  What it leans on

  Hungary

  Reliance on German institutes

  «Hungarian editorial offices primarily cite ARD and ZDF projections rather than independent local sources.»

and the figures

• 4.9%

  Kauno diena

  CDU score in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

  % of votes

  same figure

  4.9%

  Index HU

• 38.2%

  Kauno diena

  AfD score in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

  % of votes

  same figure

  38.2%

  Telex

• this press does not report this figure

  Score of The Left in Berlin

  % of votes

  this press does not report this figure