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Merkel says election loss 'painful' for party


    BERLIN (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday her party's election defeat in the prosperous state of Baden-Wuerttemberg after 58 straight years of rule was painful and would take a long time to overcome.

    "We lost our majority there and that's painful," Merkel told a news conference.

    "It's a deep wound in the history of Baden-Wuerttemberg and also in the history of the CDU. The pain from this loss won't go away in just one day. We'll have to work for a long time to overcome the pain from this defeat."

    (Reporting by Stephen Brown and Noah Barkin; writing by Erik Kirschbaum)