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German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends the final rally ahead of the September 26th elections for CDU candidate Armin Laschet. The election on Sunday will mark the end of Merkel's 16 years in power and the beginning of a rare period of unpredictability in Europe's top economy, with the race too close to call. IMAGES
Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the Social Democrat Party (SPD) votes in Potsdam for the German federal elections. IMAGES
Armin Laschet, CDU candidate, holds a rally in Bremen, Germany. In the closing stretch before September 26 polls that will see Merkel bow out after 16 years, surveys show her CDU-CSU alliance trailing the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD). IMAGES
Angela Merkel's conservative CDU party picks her ally Armin Laschet as its next leader, in a key vote that kicks off the race for Germany's top job as a deadly pandemic roils Europe's biggest economy. In the close race, state premier of Germany's most populous state North Rhine-Westphalia Laschet triumphed over old Merkel nemesis Friedrich Merz (521 votes vs 466 votes), after a first round that saw Merz leading by just five votes. IMAGES
European People's Party Group leader (EPP) and European Commission President candidate Manfred Weber casts his ballot in the European parliamentary elections. IMAGES
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