Local government vote raises SPD&#39;s hopes
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BERLIN - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s Social Democrat Party (SPD) have seized on regional elections in the nation&#39;s biggest state as a sign of a turnaround in the party&#39;s political fortunes.
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Britons and other expats in Spain win council seats in local elections, putting new parties on the political map.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s Social Democratic Party lost elections in the western state of Saarland, the first of four votes this month amid nationwide protests against government welfare cuts.
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Upon the proposal of the deputy group, comprised of governing Social-Democratic Party in Germany (SPD) and Alliance 90/Green Party, the lower home of the German Parliament-the Bundestag adopted late Thursday a ...
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SCHWERIN, Germany  - A far-right anti-foreigner   party has embarrassed German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a   regional election in her home state and delivered a wake-up   call to her 10-month-old government.
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Germany's governing Social Democrats avoided major losses in local elections Sunday in the country's most populous state, while the conservative opposition lost votes but stayed well ahead in a traditional stronghold for Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's party, exit polls indicated.
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Protests over the past two weeks have   added extra spice to local elections in Hungary on Sunday, but   unless the Socialists and their allies lose heavily in big   cities, there is unlikely to be much political fallout.
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Washington voters have the opportunity to make sweeping changes in District leadership for the first time in a decade, taking the first step toward selecting a new mayor and council chairman and at least three new council members in Tuesday's Democratic primary.
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Chancellor Schroeder's SPD loses local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, but avoids a major slump.
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Voters in two states in Germany's ex-communist east go to the polls on Sunday, expected to hand bitter losses to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats and strong gains to far-right parties.
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Ahead of this weekend&#39;s elections in the eastern German states of Brandenburg and Saxony, leading politicians have been calling for voters to turn out and cast their ballots against far right parties.
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Voting is under way in the German state of Saarland, with polls predicting another  defeat for the Social Democrats.
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Exit polls say German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s Social Democrats have been defeated in a local election in the western state of Saarland.
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State elections in the former East Germany on Sunday are expected to see a resurgence of the far right.
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Germany awoke yesterday to hear Paul Spiegel, the leader of the tiny Jewish community, say that Sunday&#39;s election results reminded him of the last days of the Weimar Republic.
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Hong Kong&#39;s voters may turn out in record numbers today to vote for the city&#39;s legislature in an election seen as a plebiscite on fuller democracy for the city.
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BERLIN Sept. 19, 2004 - Voters in two struggling east German states had a chance to voice their discontent Sunday over high unemployment and social welfare cuts in elections expected to give a boost to extreme-right and left-wing parties.