Election blow for German premier
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Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats suffer a dramatic setback in regional elections in the German state of Hesse.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s Social Democrats have slumped to their worst result in 44 years in the western state of Saarland as voters punish the party for its painful economic reforms.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's ruling Social Democrats took a new beating at the polls as voters in the tiny state of Saarland sent them plunging to their worst showing there in four decades.
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Germany&#39;s major parties Sunday saw their popularity decline in local parliament elections in the two eastern states of Sachsen and Brandenburg.
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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 ...
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Germany&#39;s two major political parties are bracing for heavy losses in Sunday&#39;s legislative elections in two former communist states.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s Social Democratic Party is likely to lose elections in four of Germany&#39;s 16 states this month as voters protest welfare cuts and rising unemployment, according to opinion polls.
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Gerhard SchrÃ¶der faces defeat tomorrow in the first of a string of German regional elections. Voters were expected to punish the chancellor&#39;s welfare reforms that triggered mass street protests.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's  Social Democrats slumped to their worst result in 44 years in  the western state of Saarland on Sunday as voters punished the  party for its painful economic reforms.
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Voting ends in the German state of Saarland, with exit polls predicting another  defeat for the Social Democrats.
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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 ...
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German voters dealt Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives a bitter blow in regional elections in Berlin while a neo-Nazi party made a stunning breakthrough in her home state.
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The President suffers a crushing blow to his authority in Pakistan's general elections
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BERLIN : Germany&#39;s two main political parties wound up the losers in local elections at the weekend but Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder&#39;s Social Democrats (SPD) have taken heart by avoiding a new rout.
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Recently the Financial Times broke the story that Germany might join the reconstruction effort in Iraq if John Kerry wins the presidential election.
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Germany's far right looks set to win   seats in a third regional parliament on Sunday as discontent   with Chancellor Angela Merkel's national government and   depressed conditions in the east push voters to the fringes.
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Voters dealt German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives a bitter blow in Berlin in regional elections which saw the neo-Nazis make a stunning breakthrough in her home state.