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		</div><p>Germany’s political parties prepared to rally their supporters and win over undecided voters, two days before a national election that will determine who succeeds Chancellor Angela Merkel after 16 years in power.</p>
<p>Mrs Merkel’s centre-right Union bloc, with Armin Laschet as its candidate for chancellorship, has made small gains in the polls in recent weeks.</p>
<p>But it remains narrowly behind the centre-left Social Democrats, headed by finance minister Olaf Scholz.</p>
<p>The Greens, who are putting forward their own candidate for chancellor for the first time, are trailing in third place, but could play kingmakers when it comes to forming a government.</p>
<p>Experts say one of the reasons why this year’s German election is closer and less predictable than usual is that the candidates are relative unknowns to most voters.</p>
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<p>“It’s certainly not the most boring election,” said Hendrik Traeger, a political scientist at the University of Leipzig.</p>
<p>“There were those in which Angela Merkel stood as the incumbent and it was simply a question of who she would govern with.”</p>
<p>This time, Mrs Merkel’s party has struggled to energise its traditional base, which has so far failed to warm to Mr Laschet, the governor of North Rhine-Westphalia state.</p>
<p>“The key question is whether these voters will overcome the Laschet hurdle and vote for the Union despite Laschet” said Peter Matuschek of the polling company Forsa.</p>
<p>“Or will they abstain from the vote or even choose another party.”</p>
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