“Asking voters to go to the polls again would, I think be totally wrong,” she said. On Monday, Merkel had said she would prefer new elections to a minority government in which her party would be only held in power by others."

She knows the CDU will lose even more votes if it goes back to the polls, and that is just a scared spiteful statement.

More folks would vote SPD instead of their safe CDU/Merkel vote, and maybe a couple would unfortunately vote AfD, but that is the price of the CDU being a terrible party as of late. What's that? Grant more coal mines into forests for lobbyists that the CDU loves so much? Really making friends.