Dagmar Enkelmann, top candidate of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS), successors to the communist party that ruled East Germany, rides her bicycle towards a polling staiton for the Brandenburg state elections in the eastern German town of Bernau, north of Berlin September 19, 2004. Regional elections are being held in the eastern states of Brandenburg and Saxony against a background of discontent over big welfare cuts. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch FAB/AA