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Düsseldorf/Dortmund-Shock and joy are close together for the battered SPD in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia this evening. After almost 80 years, the Social Democrats lose their former “Herzkammer” Dortmund to the CDU. Trust paving for the Social Democrats is in the stab elections in North Rhine-Westphalia that they reign the city of Cologne again after ten years. But the blow in Dortmund weighs heavily and sends shock waves to Berlin.
