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Social Democrats in Crisis: Election Results Pose Hard Leadership Questions

Biggest Loss: The Social Democrats are asking whether their leaders -- Frank-Walter Steinmeier (L) and Franz Müntefering -- are to blame.

Together the Union, as the two parties are known together, had 34 percent. And then their own numbers: Projections for the Social Democrats (SPD) had the party at 23 percent of the vote. Full Article at Spiegel Online

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