What sort of leader would engineer his own defeat in a vote of confidence, in order to bring forward national elections that he will almost certainly lose? An odd tactic it may be, but Germany’s chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, seems sure that it offers his only hope of securing a mandate strong enough to push through reforms that would revive Germany’s run-down economy.
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