Schroeder takes beating for Germany's many problems

[RonOnGuitar]

Hmmmm - so hardcare anti-American Schroeder gets the boot. Who's next - "Napeleon" Jackie Chirac?========================



Schroeder's Social Democrats Suffer Major Loss



Not even hard-core anti-capitalism could help them this time: Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats (SPD) decisively lost state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany's most populous state and a long-standing Social Democratic stronghold. The election defeat marked the first time in thirty-nine years that the SPD will not be governing the state and represents the worst election result for the Chancellor's party there in fifty years. Foreign Secretary Joschka Fischer's Green party went down in defeat as well. Voters were particularly unhappy about the state's economic situation, with unemployment levels recently surpassing the one-million mark for a dismal post-war record high.



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