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German election: Polls open in tight race to elect new chancellor
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BERLIN, 27 September 2021, (TON): Warm temperatures and clear blue skies greeted voters across Germany as tens of millions of voters headed to polling stations on Sunday to determine the country’s next government and the chancellor who will lead it.
The election is the first since the county reunified in 1990 that Angela Merkel will not run in as a candidate. After 16 years in the chancellery, the woman who became the defining European leader of her era will step aside once a new government is formed.
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier urged citizens to vote and make their voices heard.
“Our country faces a political transition,” he wrote in an article penned for tabloid Bild am Sonntag. “Let’s vote together for a strong democracy and a good future.”
Two final surveys published on Friday put the SPD ahead of the CDU-CSU alliance by 26 points to 25 and 25 to 22, respectively.
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