There are exactly two weeks to go before Germans go to the polls in a national election.
On Sunday evening Chancellor Angela Merkel squares up to her main rival Frank Walter Steinmeier in a live 90-minute TV debate.
Twenty million Germans are expected to watch the encounter.
Opinion polls ahead of the duel suggest that Mrs Merkel's centre-right bloc will get enough votes in the election to allow her to remain chancellor.
Mr Steinmeier has his work cut out to ensure that, at the very least, his Social Democratic Party stays on as junior partner in the government.
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