Word: zdf
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Socialists were routed in parliamentary elections four months ago, reducing the shrewd but tired 76-year-old President to a power-sharing role. Helmut Kohl? Three years after his luminous hour of forging German unification, the Chancellor has the lowest popularity among leading German politicians, according to a recent ZDF television poll. About Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italy's new stopgap Prime Minister, the best that can be said is that he is not a career politician. That happens to be saying a lot: the biggest names in Italian politics, if not the corruption-riddled political structure as a whole, have...
...same poll, 52% named Modrow as the country's most trusted political figure, a startling result in a country fed up with Communists. By contrast, Ibrahim Bohme, the SPD leader and Modrow's probable successor as Prime Minister, scored only 15%. In West Germany another popularity ranking conducted by ZDF television gave Modrow a higher ranking than Kohl...