Social Democrats Decide Over New Leadership

BERLIN - OCTOBER 05: (L-R) Current German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and leader of the SPD parliamentary group and Sigmar Gabriel, current Environment Minister of the German Social Democrats (SPD) arrive for a executive committee meeting at SPD headquarters at Willy-Brandt-Haus on October 5, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. The SPD is to select new leaders following disastrous results in recent German federal elections that will relegate the party out of government positions and into the opposition. Analysts are predicting that current Minister of the Environment Sigmar Gabriel will be nominated as new chairman of the party. (Photo by Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)