"With the bitter election result for my party in North Rhine-Westphalia the political support for our reforms to continue has been called into question...I see it as my responsibility and duty as German chancellor to persuade the president [Horst Köhler] . .. to call new elections for the Bundestag as quickly as possible, realistically by autumn 2005." -- Gerhard Schroder
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