GERMANY: UPSET! Merkel's Party Will Lose B-W...After 58 Years; 200,000 Protest Nukes.

BBC

  In what is being called a referendum on Chancellor Angela Merkel's leadership, polls show her Christian Democrat party will lose the prosperous southwestern state of Baden-Wurttemberg for the first time... since 1953.
   Exit polling gave the CDU only 43% even with its FDP ally.
   Apparently, the recent tragic accidents in Japan made nuclear power the key issue.
   The upset victor Green party spokesman said: "It's a dream come true... we could never have dreamed of a result like this a few days ago."
    Some believe the CDU's defeat will be "the beginning of the end" for Merkel but others predict she will hang-on until the 2013 general election. 
   Merkel  tried to ease nuclear worries by suspending for three months extending the lifetime of 4 nuclear reactors in Baden-Wurttemberg. 

AND: More than 100,000 marched in Berlin on Saturday demanding an end to nuclear power. Tens of thousands also turned out in Hamburg and Munich.

    The protestors shouted "Fukushima, Chernobyl: Too much is too much!" or "Switch them off." They want all 17 German reactors shut down. A minute of silence was held to remember the victims of Japan's 11 March earthquake and tsunami.
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