GERMANY: GERHARD SCHROEDER AND EDMUND STOIBER, LEADING CANDIDATES IN THE GERMAN FEDERAL ELECTION, HOLD CAMPAIGN RALLIES FOR THEIR SUPPORTERS.

Record ID: 647674

  • Title: GERMANY: GERHARD SCHROEDER AND EDMUND STOIBER, LEADING CANDIDATES IN THE GERMAN FEDERAL ELECTION, HOLD CAMPAIGN RALLIES FOR THEIR SUPPORTERS.
  • Date: 20th September 2002
  • Summary: (W8) DORTMUND, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 20, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV/PAN: GERMAN CHANCELLOR GERHARD SCHROEDER ARRIVING AT THE HALL WITH CROWD CHEERING 0.11 2. SV/PULL OUT: SCHROEDER ON THE STAGE, ACKNOWLEDGING CHEERS 0.22 3. VARIOUS OF CHEERING CROWD 4. SV: GERMAN CHANCELLOR ON THE STAGE AND ACKNOWLEDGING THE CHEERING CROWD AND GIVING VICTORY SIGNS. 0.33 5. PULL OUT: VIEW OF CROWD IN THE HALL 0.48 6. SCU: GERMAN CHANCELLOR GERHARD SCHROEDER. 0.56 7. SV: SUPPORTER HOLDING PLACARD. 1.00 8. SV: SCHROEDER SPEAKING ON STAGE "The others, our political opponents, talk badly about this country. But those who are so negative about things -- they are not good overnors. They may want to govern, but they aren't capable of governing, my friends." 1.25 9. GV: CROWD CHEERING 1.32 10. VARIOUS: SCHROEDER AND SWEDISH PRIME MINISTER GOERAN PERSSON ON STAGE.(2 SHOTS) 1.48 11. PAN: CHEERING SUPPORTERS 1.59 12. SV: GIRL WITH SIGN SAYING "MY FIRST VOTE WILL BE FOR THE SPD" 2.04 13. VARIOUS OF SCHROEDER ON STAGE ACCEPTING CHEERS 2.33 (W8) BERLIN, GERMANY (SEPTEMBER 20, 2002) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 14. VARIOUS OF GERMAN CHANCELLOR CANDIDATE EDMUND STOIBER ARRIVES AT RALLY 2.52 15. VARIOUS OF CHEERING SUPPORTERS AND GERMAN CHANCELLOR CANDIDATE EDMUND STOIBER ACKNOWLEDGING THE CHEERING CROWD. 3.13 16. SLV: EDMUND STOIBER SPEAKING 3.18 17. CU: STOIBER'S WIFE KARIN 3.25 18. GV: VIEWS CHEERING CROWD 3.35 19. SV/PULL OUT: (SOUNDBITE) (German) CHANCELLOR CANDIDATE EDMUND STOIBER, SAYING: "On the 23rd of September we want to seize power and use the next weeks to prepare for an upswing in Germany, we have courage and optimism and are prepared to do something. That is CDU/CSU, that is what I stand for, that is what you stand for. Thank you very much and all the very best. Thank you!" 4.21 20. SV: VIEWS CHEERING CROWD 4.25 21. VARIOUS: STOIBER WAVING TO CROWD AND CROWD CHEERING. (5 SHOTS) 4.58 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 5th October 2002 13:00
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  • Location: DORTMUND AND BERLIN, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA1L0LX9EX8ECZP9JDYKBDTNJ3W
  • Story Text: Two days before the German federal election which
    continues to be too close to call, the leading candidates have
    closed out their campaigns with rousing rallies among their
    party faithful.



    German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder ended his election
    tour on Friday (September 20) in the western industrial state
    of North-Rhine Westphalia, a traditional stronghold of the
    centre-left Social Democratic Party.

    Meantime, Schroeder's challenger, Bavarian
    Minister-Presdient Edmund Stoiber, finished his quest for the
    Chancellery in Berlin, also cheered on by thousands of
    supporters.

    In Dortmund, Schroeder took a verbal stab at his
    opponents, telling the crowd that the Christian Democrats are
    not fit to govern the country.

    "Our political opponents talk badly about this country.

    But those who are so negative about things -- they are not
    good governors. They may want to govern, but they aren't
    capable of governing," said Schroeder.

    Stoiber concluded his campaign with a rousing speech to
    supporters in Berlin, telling them that it is the Christian
    Democrats who have the courage to seize power and do something
    for the country.

    On Sunday (September 22) about 60 million Germans will go
    to the polls to choose their next Bundestag and Chancellor.

    Two last-minute polls showed Schroeder clinging to the
    thinnest of leads, although it was far from certain the SPD
    and their junior coalition partners, the Greens, would win
    enough seats to stay in power.

    A Forsa poll for RTL television found Schroeder's SPD
    would win 38.5-39.5 percent, down from 40 a week ago.

    Challenger Edmund Stoiber's conservatives had 37-38 percent,
    down from 38.

    A projection by the rival Allensbach group had the SPD
    reversing a deficit to take a 37.5 percent to 37.0 percent
    lead.

    The surveys seemed to confirm expectations that the
    election would be among the closest in post-war history, and
    gave little indication whether Germany would be governed next
    by the same centre-left coalition, a centre-right one under
    Stoiber, or even an alliance between both major parties.



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