A combination of six photographs show German Chancellor and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party leader Angela Merkel before a party board meeting in Berlin, May 7, 2012. Germans voted a new parliament in the state of Schleswig-Holstein on Sunday, with Angela Merkel's conservatives fighting to prevent a loss of local power to their Social Democrat rivals that could dent the chancellor's 2013 re-election hopes. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (GERMANY - Tags: POLITICS HEADSHOT)