The election will be decided in the last few days.

This election will be decided in the final days,

The election will be decided in the last few days,

[Mrs. Merkel, now 51, could hardly wait to seize the moment to embrace unification.] As far as I have been shaped by politics, I have been shaped by German reunification, ... I am proud to be a politician for all of Germany with East German roots.

This is not a farewell.

seven years of empty promises, of following the wrong policies, or of not seeing things through.