CDU Campaigns In Nuertingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg

NUERTINGEN, GERMANY - MARCH 08: German Chancellor and Chairwoman of the German Christian Democrats (CDU) Angela Merkel and local CDU lead candidate Guido Wolf greet supporters at the beginning of a CDU campaign rally ahead of Baden-Wuerttemberg state elections on March 8, 2016 in Nuertingen, Germany. State elections scheduled for March 13 in three German states: Rhineland-Palatinate, Saxony-Anhalt and Baden-Wuerttemberg, will be a crucial test-case for Merkel, who has come under increasing pressure over her liberal immigration policy towards migrants and refugees. The populist Alternative fuer Deutschland (Alternative for Germany, AfD), with campaign rhetoric aimed at Germans who are uneasy with so many newcomers, has solid polling numbers and will almost certainly win seats in all three state parliaments. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)