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GERMANY-VOTE-SPD
The Social Democratic Party's (SPD) main candidate Peer Steinbrueck (C) and SPD General Secretary Sigmar Gabriel (L) arrive for a meeting of the SPD's executive board in Berlin September 23, 2013, a day after general elections. Preliminary official results showed that Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party together won 41.5 percent of the vote -- against 25.7 percent for the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) and 8.4 percent for the SPD's preferred allies the ecologist Greens. The CDU's junior coalition allies the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) for the first time in over half a century missed out on any seats in parliament, garnering only 4.8 percent, meaning Merkel's party will have to look for new partners to govern with. The far-left Linke scored 8.6 percent, but the party, which succeeded East Germany's communists, is not seen as a potential coalition partner by the other left of centre parties. AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL
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Berlin, GERMANY |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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JOHN MACDOUGALL |
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23 Septembrie 2013 |
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