Exit Polls Indicate Germany&#39;s Social Democrats Lose State Election
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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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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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Austria's opposition Social Democrats won nationwide elections on Sunday, the government said, swinging the country to the center-left after more than six years of influence by the extreme right.
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Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's party was routed in elections Sunday in the small western state of Saarland, where public anger over his cuts in social programs also boosted a small far-right party that ...
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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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BERLIN - Germany&#39;s governing Social Democrats emerged from local elections in the country&#39;s most populous state Sunday trailing well behind the conservative opposition in projections, but party leaders were relieved they avoided major new losses.
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Germany&#39;s mainstream political parties were sharply rebuffed yesterday when voters in two regional elections in formerly communist East Germany handed extremists their best results in years.
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Exit polls in key Romanian elections are showing a likely win for the ruling Social Democrats. But as in Ukraine, the opposition has demanded an investigation into voting irregularities.
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Voting got off to a slow start in a traditional stronghold of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats (SPD) which faced its last test at the ballot box this year.
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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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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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BERLIN - Voters in two states in Germanyâs ex-communist east go to the polls on Sunday, expected to hand bitter losses to Chancellor Gerhard Schroederâs Social Democrats and strong gains to far-right parties.
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German voters handed Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder a fresh setback in elections in the small western state of Saarland today, reflecting public anger over his drive to cut into the country - s cherished network ...
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The German chancellor, Gerhard SchrÃ¶der, suffered a setback yesterday as voters in a regional election punished the government for pushing through controversial welfare reforms that have sparked weeks of street protests.
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Early results of a local election in Germany show the country&#39;s ruling Social Democratic party appears to have avoided a major defeat following a string of recent electoral losses.
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Voters in two east German states angry over high unemployment and cuts in social programs handed a rebuke Sunday to Germany's two biggest parties, giving big gains to far right and former Communist groups, projections showed.
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POTSDAM, Germany  - In Germany's summer of discontent over social welfare cuts, parties on the extremes of the political spectrum are finding voters easy prey for two state elections in the formerly communist east this weekend.