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http://medienkritik.typepad.com/blog/2005/05/schroeders_soci.html
Breaking News: Schroeder's Social Democrats Lost Big Time
Not even hard core anti-capitalism and anti-Americanism helped: Schroeder's Social Democrats lost the state elections in North-Rhine/Westfalia, Germany's largest state, fair and sqare. The Greens of Foreign Secretary Joschka Fischer lost as well. Clear winner is the Christian Democratic Party (CDU). The CDU will form a coalition government together with the Free Democrats (FDP).
The result is a debacle for chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. Hard to say whether he will politically survive the next weeks.
Forecasts (2000 figures in parentheses)
SPD 37.6 % (42,8 %)
CDU 44,8 % (37,0 %)
FDP 6,1 % ( 9,8 %)
Greens 6,0 % ( 7,1 %)