Merkel Appeals for Strong Europe as Steinbrueck Attacks
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel closed her campaign evoking the benefits of European unity as Social Democrat Peer Steinbrueck lambasted her as ineffectual and “backward-looking.”
The candidates crisscrossed the nation in the days before tomorrow’s vote, with all polls putting Merkel’s Christian Democratic bloc ahead; none showed a clear majority for her continued alliance with the Free Democrats, and some suggest the anti-euro AfD party may win seats and further complicate the post-election coalition-building.