BERLIN (Sputnik) — The issue of migration has affected the results of recent Germany's federal state elections to regional parliaments, Chancellor Angela Merkel said.
Three German federal states, namely the western states of Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate, as well as in Saxony-Anhalt in the east, held elections to regional parliaments on Sunday. Merkel's Christian Democratic Union has lost votes in all three federal states.
"The fact that the issue [of migration] does not have any final satisfactory solution yet has significantly affected the results of the elections," the chancellor said.
Criticism has been mounting against the Merkel government over its open-door migration policy after a high-profile series of attacks on women in Cologne on New Year's Eve.
