Chancellor Gerhard Schröder had another fifteen months to go before the end of the electoral term, and it seemed that he had no difficulty mobilizing his admittedly slender majority in parliament.
Le chancelier Gerhard Schröder avait encore quinze mois devant lui avant la fin de son mandat, et il ne semblait avoir aucune difficulté à mobiliser son indéniablement mince majorité parlementaire.