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Election campaign posters from Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, CDU, with top candidate and state governor Reiner Haseloff, top, and from the far-right Alternative for Germany, AFD, party with top candidate, Oliver Kirchner, displayed in front of a residents building at federal state Saxony-Anhalt's capital Magdeburg, Germany, Wednesday, June 2, 2021.The state vote on Sunday, June 6, 2021 is German politicians' last major test at the ballot box before the national election in September that will determine who succeeds Chancellor Angela Merkel. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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Election campaign posters from the Greens and Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party stand near a road in the federal state Saxony-Anhalt's capital Magdeburg, Germany, Wednesday, June 2, 2021. The state vote on Sunday, June 6, 2021 is German politicians' last major test at the ballot box before the national election in September that will determine who succeeds Chancellor Angela Merkel. The from left: A poster of the Green Party with the slogan: reliable for climate reliable for Saxony-Anhalt, center a poster of the CDU showing candidates and reading; "together for Magdeburg' and right a poster showing ruling CDU governor Reiner Haseloff with bis wife Gabriele Haseloff and the slogan: Out of love for our homeland'. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)