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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Merkel challenger refuses to be ruled out AFP - Monday, August 31 BERLIN (AFP) - - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's challenger hit the final four weeks of election campaigning on Monday claiming he could still win after Merkel's party looked set to lose power in two states. ADVERTISEMENT Just nine percent of voters expect Frank-Walter Steinmeier, candidate for the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), to unseat Merkel on September 27, according to a weekend survey. A whopping 87 percent predict she will win. The latest opinion poll put the SPD, currently coalition partners at national level to Merkel's centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU), on just 23 percent, compared to 37 percent for the chancellor's party. Crucially, polls also indicate that Merkel could ditch the SPD and form a new coalition with the business-friendly Free Democrats (FDP), whose score is currently around 14 percent. But Merkel hit a bump in the road on Sunday after elections in three of Germany's 16 states appeared to lose the party power in two of them, Saarland and Thuringia. It held onto power only in Saxony. Steinmeier, whose ability to attack Merkel has been hampered by the fact he is also deputy chancellor and foreign minister in the four-year-old "grand coalition", was triumphant. "What does this election night mean for the national election? Those who said that the election was already decided have made a big mistake," he told cheering supporters at party headquarters in Berlin. The results also came at the end of a bad week for Merkel, with the future of General Motors' European unit Opel and its 25,000 German workers putting her on the defensive, as was a flap over a dinner for the country's top banker. "Steinmeier now has wind in his sails," the Neue Ruhr Zeitung daily said in an editorial on Monday. But the aftermath of the state votes may also reap handy ammunition for Merkel, in particular the prospect of the SPD forming coalitions with the far-left Die Linke, which scored over 20 percent in all three state votes. Such a "red-red" tie-up in Saarland would be a first in western Germany, and the CDU would cite this as evidence that the SPD wants to run the whole country with Die Linke, a party which includes former East German communists. Newspapers warned Steinmeier against getting too confident just yet. The Financial Times Deutschland said that that the CDU lost votes because the last state elections had been marked by a backlash against the government of SPD then-chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, and because of local issues. "Interpreting this setback (for Merkel) as a clear signal of a turnaround in the battle for Berlin in four weeks is wide of the mark," the paper said. "Trying to predict the outcome of the federal election from Sunday's results is about as reliable as reading tea leaves," the Handelsblatt business daily said. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Sign in to recommend this article » 0 users recommend Related Articles: World Calif. fire to reach mountain's TV transmittersAP - Monday, August 31 Police: NM boy faces murder charge in dad's deathAP - Monday, August 31 Britain urges more reform of finance sectorAFP - Monday, August 31 Gabon awaits poll outcome, Bongo's son confidentReuters - Monday, August 31 US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,337AP - Monday, August 31 Enlarge Photo Voters are counted at a polling station in the eastern German city of Dresden. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's challenger hit the final four weeks of election campaigning on Monday claiming he could still win after Merkel's party looked set to lose power in two states. Most Popular – World Viewed Michael Jackson's death homicide: coroner Kidnapped US girl walks into police station 18 years on Obama ends frenetic vacation Microsoft apologizes for photo gaffe Tick saliva could hold cancer cure: Brazilian scientists View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! Southeast Asia Pte Ltd. (Co. Reg. No. 199700735D). All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Community - Intellectual Property Rights Policy - Help

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