Thiruvananthapuram, Feb. 17 -- Taking time off holidaying in Kerala, four German citizens cast their postal votes for their country's Federal Elections, at the German Honorary Consulate in the city on Monday.
German nationals Rainer Helbing, Uta Helbing, Evelyn Kirn, and Veronika Zhuravleva cast their votes at the German Honorary Consulate in the city for the February 23 elections.
This is the first time that German citizens are casting their votes for national elections from Kerala.
The collapse of the so-called Traffic Coalition of the Socialist Party of Germany, Free Democrats, and the Greens last November led to the snap elections, at least seven months earlier.
A host of issues like the emergence of the right-wing populist Alternat...