BERLIN, Sept 7 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democrats no longer have a mandate to govern in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt, said incumbent CDU state premier Sven Schulze on Monday.
"We, the CDU, no longer hold a mandate to govern. We are in opposition. The mandate to govern now lies with the AfD, and I will be taking this result to the party board this evening," said Schulze, who had run against the AfD's Ulrich Siegmund.
(Reporting by Kirsti Knolle, Writing by Miranda Murray
Editing by Ludwig Burger)