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Ex-finance minister to challenge Merkel in 2013 vote

AFP
Germany’s main opposition party named a feisty former finance minister to lead its bid to unseat Chancellor Angela Merkel from the helm of Europe’s top economy in elections next year. Three leading members of the centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), including the candidate himself, Peer Steinbrueck.