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Germany's ex- finance minister to challenge Merkel in 2013 election: report | | Germany's opposite party Social Democrats (SPD) will nominate former finance minister Peer Steinbrueck
to challenge Chancellor Angela Merkel in the national election next year, a German newspaper reported on Friday. Steinbrueck, who run the finance ministry during
Merkel's first term from 2005 to 2009, has won support from SPD leader Sigmar
Gabriel. The official nomination is set to be made at a meeting of SPD executives
next Monday, reported Bild, citing party sources. Another two potential candidates,
Gabriel himself and leader of SPD's parliamentary group Frank-Walter Steinmeier,
had quit the contest. According to a poll launched by Emnid for German N24 television,
59 percent of people believe Steinbrueck would be competent for being Chancellor
and 49 percent of the respondents think he is "sympathetic." Besides, 45 percent
of people regard the 65-year-old former finance minister's political spectrum
as a "conservative" one. A previous poll showed that Merkel's conservative Christian
Democratic Union (CDU) won more support than its opposition SPD. Merkel will compete
for her third term in next year's election, and has expressed her super confidence
to win.
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