Germany's election season is officially underway with chancellor Angela Merkel and challenger Martin Schulz spending the week campaigning ahead of the vote on the twenty fourth of September.
Merkel is the favorite to win a fourth term with a lead of around fifteen percent in recent polls.
Ira Spitzer has more from Berlin.
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