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Germany's SPD leader Sigmar Gabriel and SPD secretary general Andrea Nahles (L) react after hearing first exit polls for the Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate state elections at the party headquarters in Berlin March 27, 2011
Monday, Mar. 28, 2011

Open quoteToday the final decision on the end of nuclear power in Germany was made.Close quote

  • SIGMAR GABRIEL,
  • leader of Germany's opposition Social Democrats, after voters' fears in the wake of Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant crisis led to a historic defeat in a state ballot for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, according to early results
Photo: REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz | Source: AFP