Klaus Wowereit, new elected mayor of Berlin of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) sits in his seat in the regional state parliament in Berlin June 16, 2001.A left-wing alliance of the SPD, Greens and the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) ousted conservative mayor Eberhard Diepgen who lost a vote of no-confidence after sleaze and financial mismanagment charges against the Christian Democrats (CDU) was blamed for the German capitals growing cash crisis, paving the way for the ex-communists to enter the city government for the first time since the 1989 fall of the Wall.

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