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Merkel's final push for party in knife-edge polls
Laschet has been trailing his Social Democrat challenger Scholz
25 September, 14:34
(ANSA-AFP) - BERLIN, SEP 25 - Chancellor Angela Merkel
travels Saturday to Aachen, hometown of her would-be successor
Armin Laschet, in a last-ditch push to shore up his beleaguered
campaign 24 hours before Germans vote. Laschet, 60, has been
trailing his Social Democrat challenger Olaf Scholz in the race
for the chancellery, although final polls put the gap between
them within the margin of error, making the vote one of the most
unpredictable in recent years. Merkel had planned to keep a low
profile in the election battle as she prepares to bow out of
politics after 16 years in power. But she has found herself
dragged into the frantic campaign schedule of the unpopular
chairman of her party, Laschet. (ANSA-AFP).
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