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Germany's Saarland Vote: The race to keep out the Left Party's Oskar Lafontaine

March 22, 2012

This weekend the western German state of Saarland is to elect its new parliament. The Social Democrats stand to upset the Christian Democrats in the polls. But the possibility of a coalition between these parties is growing, as both have one goal in common: keeping the Left Party's Oskar Lafontaine out of power.

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