GERMANY: MAIN CANDIDATES IN GERMAN FEDERAL ELECTION EDMUND STOIBER AND GERHARD SCHROEDER CONTINUE THEIR CAMPAIGNS IN THE NORTH

Record ID: 647025

  • Title: GERMANY: MAIN CANDIDATES IN GERMAN FEDERAL ELECTION EDMUND STOIBER AND GERHARD SCHROEDER CONTINUE THEIR CAMPAIGNS IN THE NORTH
  • Date: 19th September 2002
  • Summary: (W8) SCHWERIN, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 19, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE OF SCHWERIN CASTLE 0.07 2. VARIOUS VIEWS ELECTION RALLY FOR GERMAN CHANCELLOR CANDIDATE EDMUND STOIBER (2 SHOTS) 0.17 3. WIDE OF STAGE 0.22 4. WIDE OF PEOPLE WATCHING BEHIND BARRIER 0.27 5. (SOUNDBITE) (German) EDMUND STOIBER, SV: CHANCELLOR CANDIDATE FOR THE CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS, SAYING: "Let us assume that Iraq will not follow the resolution of the United Nations -- I think they will follow it, but let us just assume that they won't, then it will again be a matter for the United Nations and the Security Council to take further actions. One thing is certain, though: There will never be German soldiers in Iraq." 0.54 6. VARIOUS VIEWS PEOPLE WATCHING STOIBER SPEAK (2 SHOTS) 1.05 7. SV/WS: STOIBER WAVING AT THE CROWD AFTER HIS SPEECH (2 SHOTS) 1.15 8. WIDE OF RALLY 1.20 (W8) HANNOVER, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 19, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 9. WIDE OF ARENA BEFORE GERMAN CHANCELLOR GERHARD SCHROEDER ARRIVES 1.26 10. SV: SCHROEDER SURROUNDED BY SECURITY ARRIVING TO CHEERS 1.32 11. SLV/SV: SCHROEDER GOES ON STAGE, WAVES TO CROWD (2 SHOTS) 1.51 12. VARIOUS VIEWS OF CHEERING SUPPORTERS (2 SHOTS) 2.05 13. SV: (SOUNDBITE) (German) GERMAN CHANCELLOR GERHARD SCHROEDER, SAYING: "We now have the chance to bring the inspectors into the country, that will be cleared up. But what I am asking, what I am fighting for -- don't put things on top of it, in order to try to reach another goal which one hadn't thought was possible. But rather use the chance to bring the inspectors into the country and in this way not to miss another chance for a peace offensive in the middle east. That is what the region needs and what the people of the world need. That is our job, to help push this through." 2.47 14. VARIOUS VIEWS RALLY 2.58 15. VARIOUS VIEWS SCHROEDER IN VICTORY POSE ON THE STAGE (3 SHOTS) 3.24 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: SCHWERIN AND HANNOVER, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA96CQ9AFE2DZZ6FD1OKBIZD86K
  • Story Text: Less than 72 hours before the German federal election,
    both candidates, visibly weary from long weeks on the campaign
    trail, are putting the final touches on what each hopes will
    be a successful bid for the Chancellery.


    Both German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his
    challenger Edmund Stoiber were both in Northern Germany on
    Thursday (September 19), Stoiber concluding the campaign in
    the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where a new
    state legislature is also to be elected on Sunday, and
    Schroeder in his adopted home town Hannover.

    With just three days left until the election, Stoiber, the
    Bavarian state premier, failed this week to turn the focus
    away from Iraq and back to the ailing economy, generally seen
    as his strength given his success managing his wealthy home
    state.

    Stoiber was greeted by supporters as well as a rowdy group
    of protesters, who have been present at almost every rally he
    has addressed.

    Most surveys put Schroeder's Social Democrats slightly
    ahead of Stoiber's conservatives, although pollsters say the
    race, one of the closest in German history, is too tight to
    call.

    Schroeder appears to be holding onto a dramatic comeback
    in polls that started last month amid praise for his firm
    crisis management of record floods and has been helped by his
    strong opposition to war that has touched a nerve in a nation
    that has inherited a streak of pacifism from its violent
    history.

    Greeted by a standing ovation and cheers of "Gerhard,
    Gerhard" by some 10,000 supporters crowded into a hockey
    arena, Schroeder laid into Edmund Stoiber's conservatives.

    In a fiery address, Schroeder was interrupted more than 30
    times for applause from the appreciative home crowd. His voice
    hoarse as the end of the campaign neared, Schroeder was short
    of breath during much of the hour-long address.

    Schroeder's Social Democrats and the conservatives led by
    Stoiber are locked in a tight race ahead of Sunday's vote that
    pollsters have said is too close to call.

    Schroeder moved to the northern city of Hanover 30 years
    ago and began his political career at the same time as he
    opened a law practice.

    He was the state premier of Lower Saxony, Germany's fourth
    largest state, between 1990 and 1998 and even after moving to
    Bonn and later Berlin as chancellor, he kept his home in the
    state capital of Hanover, 300 km (180 miles) west of Berlin.


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