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Chancellor Angela Merkel defiantly signaled she’ll stay the course after an anti-immigration party defeated her Christian Democrats in a state election for the first time, according to a senior member of the chancellor’s party.

“I have not the impression that she wants to give up,” Elmar Brok, a Christian Democratic Union lawmaker in the European Parliament, said in a Bloomberg Television interview after taking part in a post-election conference call with Merkel on Monday. “She was full of plans how to solve this crisis.”