Schleswig-Holstein election is a test for Schroder

From: International Herald Tribune | Date: February 19, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Judy Dempsey
International Herald Tribune
02-19-2005
Chancellor Gerhard Schroder of Germany faces a political test Sunday a scandal in his coalition and growing unemployment when voters in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein decide if his Social Democratic Party and its junior leftist Green Party coalition ally will be returned to power. The election in one of Western Germany's poorer regions, where unemployment is almost 10 percent, follows unusual criticism of the Green Party leader, Joschka Fischer, who is also the foreign minister in Schroder's coalition government. Fischer has ...

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