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Merkel Launches Campaign Against Schroeder
BERLIN - The conservative challenger to Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder kicked off her campaign for next month's elections calling for more jobs and economic growth, even as polls showed the chancellor's party gaining in popularity.
Yet Schroeder's Social Democrats — whose popularity was up two points to 28 percent — remain well behind Angela Merkel's conservatives, who polled 42 percent, according to the survey by the TNS Emnid research for the Berliner Morgenpost newspaper.
Crowds shouting "Angie! Angie!" welcomed Merkel in Essen, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia where her Christian Democrats and their sister party, the Bavarian Christian Social Union ousted the Social Democrats in state balloting three months ago. The defeat caused Schroeder to call for new elections.
"Now the point is to get out of this misery, we need growth, economical growth is the way we need to grow as we are last in Europe. And that is not right," Merkel told the crowd. "That is not adequate for Germany - Germany can do more."
TNS Emnid interviewed 5,528 people from Aug. 2-8 for the poll, which had a margin of error of 2 percent.
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Yet Schroeder's Social Democrats — whose popularity was up two points to 28 percent — remain well behind Angela Merkel's conservatives, who polled 42 percent, according to the survey by the TNS Emnid research for the Berliner Morgenpost newspaper.
Crowds shouting "Angie! Angie!" welcomed Merkel in Essen, a city in North Rhine-Westphalia where her Christian Democrats and their sister party, the Bavarian Christian Social Union ousted the Social Democrats in state balloting three months ago. The defeat caused Schroeder to call for new elections.
"Now the point is to get out of this misery, we need growth, economical growth is the way we need to grow as we are last in Europe. And that is not right," Merkel told the crowd. "That is not adequate for Germany - Germany can do more."
TNS Emnid interviewed 5,528 people from Aug. 2-8 for the poll, which had a margin of error of 2 percent.
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