According to the news item, what has happened to Angela Merkel? [originaltext]

(7)The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has suffered a humiliating result in a key regional election in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg. Results so far indicate her Christian Democrat Party will lose power in the state, which is held for six decades. The German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle of the liberal FDP expressed his disappointment.
    "It’s a bad day for us liberals. We’ve lost the vote today.(8)The nuclear energy issue seems to have been the deciding theme that concerned everyone. It was a vote on the future of nuclear energy. The frightful events in Japan, the nuclear mishap in Fukushima and the consequences for us in Germany, those were the deciding factors in this local election. "