Berlin rebuffs Schmidt
NZPA-Reuter West Berlin The Social Democratic Party of the West German Chancellor (Mr Helmut. Schmidt) was voted out of office in West Berlin on Sunday in its biggest postwar electoral defeat in the city. West German commentators said the result might signal a start to the break-up of Mr Schmidt's coalition with the Liberal Free Democrats. They were widely expected to break their 18-year-old alliance with the
Social Democrats in Berlin and share power with the opposition Christian Democrats. The Social Democrats won only 38.4 per cent of the vote in the poll, .4 per cent down on the last elections two years ago. while the Liberals dropped from 5 to 5.6 per cent. The conservative Christian Democrats had their best result ever with 47.9 per cent of the vote, 3.5 per cent up on 1979. but failed to gain enough votes to form a majority government.
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