Political Parties React To Hesse Election

BERLIN - JANUARY 19: Franz Muentefering (L), Chairman of the German Social Democrats (SPD), and SPD lead candidate in recent elections in Hesse Thorsten Schaefer-Guembel speak to the media the day after the Hesse election on January 19, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. The SPD finished with disappointing second-place results in Hesse, and the state will likely be ruled by a coalition of Christian Democrats (CDU) and Liberals (FDP). (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

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