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		</div><p>The Social Democrats and chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s Christian Democratic Party have emerged from Berlin state elections as the strongest two parties.</p>
<p>But both parties lost enough support to ensure they will not be able to continue a coalition government together, according to exit polls on Sunday.</p>
<p>The SPD won 23% of the vote, dropping 5.3%, while the CDU won 18%, down 5.4%, ARD public television reported.</p>
<p>The vote comes two weeks after Mrs Merkel&#8217;s CDU came in third in the eastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, and Sunday&#8217;s showing &#8211; her party&#8217;s worst in the capital &#8211; will keep up the pressure on the chancellor a year ahead of national elections.</p>
<p>However, it was largely local issues that drove the vote in the city of 3.5 million.</p>
<p>Disillusionment is high over the capital&#8217;s notoriously inefficient bureaucracy and issues such as years of delays in opening its new airport.</p>
<p>Peter Tauber, the Christian Democrats&#8217; general secretary, blamed Social Democratic mayor Michael Mueller for turning voters against the two governing parties, saying &#8220;the fish stinks from the head&#8221;.</p>
<p>Mr Mueller, however, said after the results that &#8220;we have achieved our goal&#8221;.</p>
<p>&#8220;We are the strongest political party and we have a mandate to form a government,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>The anti-immigrant nationalist Alternative for Germany party won 11.5% of the vote, behind the Greens and the Left party, each with 16.5%, but with more than enough to enter Berlin&#8217;s state parliament, its 10th nationwide.</p>
<p>Without enough support for the governing SPD-CDU &#8220;grand coalition&#8221; to continue, the most likely new governing alliance appeared to be a combination of the SPD, Greens and Left party.<br />
Such a configuration &#8220;is not a good perspective for Berlin&#8221; Mr Tauber said on Twitter.</p>
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