难民政策惹祸? 德国地方选举默克尔严重受挫

The party of German Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered defeats in three states holding regional elections on Sunday.

周日，在德国三个州举行的地方选举中，总理默克尔领导的执政党遭受重挫。

Merkel's ruling Christian Democrats lost ground in all three states - Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate in the west and Saxony-Anhalt in the east - which were together widely seen as offering a verdict on Merkel's liberal migrant policy. Voters turned in droves to the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany.

默克尔领导的基督教民主联盟(基民盟)在西部的巴登·符腾堡州、莱茵兰·普法尔茨州与东部的萨克森·安哈尔特州的地区选举中全部失利。外界广泛认为，这些州的投票结果是对默克尔的自由移民政策作出的裁定。选民纷纷投向反移民政党"德国新选择党"。

In the western state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, a former stronghold of the conservative Christian Democrats, support for the party reached a historic low of about 27%, the exit polls suggest.

民意调查显示，作为保守派基督教民主联盟的前大本营，在位于西部的巴登·符腾堡州，该党派的支持率竟然创造了历史最低的27%。

The elections were seen as a test of support for Chancellor Merkel's policy of accommodating refugees. More than a million migrants and refugees entered Germany in 2015.

该选举曾被视为支持默克尔总理收容难民政策的一个考验。在2015年，超过100万的移民和难民涌入了德国。

Responding to voters' fears, Merkel has promised to stem the flow of migrants to Germany, and is trying to convince Turkey to help - and other EU partners to share the burden.

作为对选民忧虑的回应，默克尔已承诺遏制难民流入德国，并尝试说服土耳其提供帮助、让其他欧盟伙伴国共同分担难民问题。