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The 36th German federal election, 1998 was conducted on September 27, 1998, to elect members to the Bundestag (lower house) of Germany. September 27 is the 270th day of the year (271st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 95 days remaining. ... 1998 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... The Bundestag (Federal Diet) is the parliament of Germany. ...

Issues and Campaign

The 1998 federal election took place against the background of high unemployment in Germany, with the Federal Labor Office registering 4 million unemployed inhabitants. The German economy had decisively slowed down after reunification in October 1990. Many voters blamed centre-right coalition government between Christian Democrats/Christian Socialists (CDU/CSU)and liberal Free Democrats (FDP) for the economic crisis. This was particularly so, as long-time Chancellor Helmut Kohl's government was regarded by many as having underestimated the economic cost of integrating the former communist East Germany into the Federal Republic.

Results

Seat results -- SPD in red, Greens in green, PDS in purple, FDP in yellow, CDU/CSU in black

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Post-election

The coalition between the CDU/CSU and the FDP no longer had a majority, so a new government was formed by a coalition between the SPD and the Greens, with the SPD's Gerhard Schröder, previously Minister-President of Lower Saxony, becoming chancellor. This was the first Red-Green coalition ever at the federal level, and Joschka Fischer became minister of foreign affairs as the highest Green in the government. Gerhard Fritz Kurt Schröder [] (born April 7, 1944 in Mossenberg-Wöhren), a German politician, has been serving as Chancellor of Germany since 1998. ... With an area of 47,618 km and nearly eight million inhabitants, Lower Saxony (German Niedersachsen) lies in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the countrys sixteen Bundesl nder (federal states). ... The German title Bundeskanzler is also the title of the Chancellor of Austria, and the title of a Swiss federal official (List of Federal Chancellors of Switzerland). ... Template:Npov-because Joschka Fischer Joseph Martin Joschka Fischer (born April 12, 1948 in Gerabronn, Baden-Württemberg) has been the German foreign minister and Deputy Chancellor in the Red-Green coalition since 1998. ...

Helmut Kohl, touched by scandal, stepped down as head of the CDU, and the CSU head stepped down as well. Dr. Helmut Kohl (full name Helmut Josef Michael Kohl) (born April 3, 1930) is a German conservative politician and statesman. ...

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