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...states, the upper house of parliament normally can be counted on to approve new legislation without raising a fuss. All that changed in 1999, however, when the opposition Christian Democrats won a string of state elections, giving them a "blocking minority" in the Bundesrat. Suddenly Chancellor Gerhard Schröder discovered that in order to get laws like his tax reform package through the upper house, he had to wheel and deal or risk certain defeat...
...Soon the logjam may be broken. Elections are being held this Sunday in two powerful states, Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg and polls show that Schröder's Social Democrats are likely to maintain their hold on the Rhineland while the vote in Baden-Württemberg is too close to call. The state has been governed by the cdu for almost 50 years, but if the sdp can pull off an upset, Schröder's party would once again control the upper house of parliament. That would affect not only Schröder's pending...
...Helping Schröder in Baden-Württemberg is the long shadow cast by a political funding scandal involving Helmut Kohl. The former Chancellor and cdu leader admitted receiving cash contributions that weren't reported as required by law, though he escaped criminal charges last month by agreeing to pay a $141,000 fine. Still, the scandal has left the Christian Democratic leadership in crisis. Angela Merkel, the new cdu leader chosen last year, has been trading insults with two rivals who covet her job: Friedrich Merz, the cdu's leader in par-liament, and Edmund Stoiber, head...
...while the sdp has soared from 25.1% to a projected 36%. What's clear is that only a coalition of parties will have enough votes to govern. The cdu currently rules in union with the Free Democrats, while the sdp partners with the Greens. But Schröder's followers in Baden-Württemberg have hinted they will try to form a coalition with both the Free Democrats and the Greens...
...changing Germany's complex system of meat labeling into just two categories: organically grown food and products that meet minimum-quality levels. A poll taken after she had been in the job just one month showed her to be the third-most popular politician in Germany after Schröder and Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer...