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The German ruling party was dealt a blowin a landmark state vote on Sunday ahead of the 2013 nationalelections, latest result of the exit polls showed. Merkel's right-wing Christian Democratic Union (CDU) was reportedto have garnered around 25.5 percent of the votes in election atNorth Rhine-Westphalia, at the country's most populous state andhome to the Ruhr Industrial Region. It trailed the major opposition rival Social Democrats (SPD), whichclaimed some 38 percent of the total votes, shedding around ninepoints from the previous election in 2010, according to exit pollspublished by local media. This has been the third state-level vote this year after Merkel'scenter-right ruling coalition got setbacks in the northern state ofSchleswig-Holstein. It promised strong momentum to German left wing ahead of thefederal election next year, as the state is home to one sixthGerman voters. Hannelore Kraft, candidate of the center-left Social Democrats(SPD), is set to beat her Christian Democrat (CDU) rival NorbertRoettgen, the environment minister in Chancellor Merkel's cabinet. Voters chanted slogans such as "the SPD will get back in" on thestreet of the North Rhine-Westphalia capital Duesseldorf, sayingtheir votes switching towards the left were not because "they aregood but because the others are so bad." "When you have worked hard, it's a good feeling when the day of theelection comes," said Hannelore Kraft, who led the Social Democratsin the state election. The CDU's defeat signaled that Germany's most populous and mostimportant industrial state have choose to turn down Chancellor'sMerkel for her tough fiscal discipline in tackling the euro zonedebt crisis. Polls in the state usually presage the whole country politicallandscape, as Merkel rose to power following a landslide victory byher CDU party in this west German state in 2005. The newly rising Pirate Party, which is established on internetfreedom and more direct participation in politics, got around 8percent of the votes and is assured of its fourth regionalparliament seat consecutively. Nevertheless, national polls so far showed that Merkel'sconservatives still claim the most seats in German parliament,before the advent of the national election next year, it is widelytipped that Merkel's CDU will still hold on to the power. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as Touchscreen Panel PC , Multitouch Tablet PC for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits 3G Wifi GPS Mobile Phones.
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