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Article: Kohl Suffers Major Setback in Eastern German State Vote
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- April 26, 1998
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With only five months away from national elections in September,
German Chancellor Helmut Kohl saw one of his most severe setbacks to
date on Sunday when his conservative party lost heavily in a crucial
local legislature vote in the eastern German state of Saxony-
Anhalt.
In Saxony-Anhalt's statehouse race, which is viewed as a key test
of Kohl's chances to win re-election in the September 27 national
vote, the chancellor's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) scored only
about 23 percent of the vote, a loss of more than 10 percentage
points from its 1994 result of 34.4 percent, preliminary computer
projections showed.
Riding a surge in support nationwide, the main opposition party
in
Bonn, the ...