Germany’s anti-nuclear Greens on Sunday scored a remarkable victory over chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative party in a state election that had turned into a referendum on nuclear power in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima disaster.
The Greens doubled their voter share in wealthy Baden-Wuerttemberg state and seemed poised to oust Merkel’s Christian Democrats who held power there for almost six decades, according to preliminary results released by the state electoral commission.
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