Merkel Returns From Vacation to Defend Her Lead Ahead of Vote
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Germany’s election campaign ramps up this week as Chancellor Angela Merkel defends her lead in the polls against sharpened political attacks from opposition Social Democratic candidate Peer Steinbrueck.
Merkel will return from vacation to deliver the first of 56 scheduled campaign speeches across Germany in the Hessian city of Seligenstadt on Aug. 14. For six weeks until election day on Sept. 22, the candidates will criss-cross the country as Steinbrueck launches broadsides at the popular leader’s economic policies.