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On the poster: "We have more to offer." To the left, Hans-Christian Ströbele, Green Party member of the Bundestag of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg constituency: "Well there, she's right..."
With the upcoming German legislative elections on the 27 September, a CDU poster with Chancellor Angela Merkel and Vera Lengsfeld displaying highly visible cleavage has appeared, in what is otherwise a lacklustre campaign. "We have more to offer" reads the slogan, with the photo of Merkel in the low-cut evening dress which caused a furory in 2008. 750 of the posters have been put up in the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg constituency of Berlin, in which Ms Lengsfeld is campaigning.
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