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1988: Germany
In West Germany, in a landslide election victory in May, the Social Democratic Party ousted the Christian Democrats from the government of the state of Schleswig-Holstein, after 38 years in power. Analysis attributed the defeat to an election scandal involving the state premier, as well as to...
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