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<span class="date-display-single">Sun, 20/05/2012</span> </div>
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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/1228">Sibylle Kaczorek</a></span></div><p>Voters in Germany’s largest state of 18 million people, North Rhine Westphalia, went to the polls on May 13 to reject Chancellor Angela Merkel’s politics. </p>
<p>This came a week after the loss for Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the election of Schleswig Holstein. These results mark a rejection of the hard line austerity politics pushed across Europe by the Merkel-led coalition government.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51087" target="_blank">read more</a></p>