The CDU-CSU chancellery candidate Armin Lashet casts his ballot in Aachen. Germans vote in one of the most unpredictable elections in its recent history, with Angela Merkel's conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats in a tight race for her crown as she prepares to leave the political stage.

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