A worker pastes up an election poster showing the top candidate of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the upcoming German general elections, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in Berlin, August 26, 2013. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
BERLIN (Reuters) - Philipp Roesler, the young leader of Germany's Free Democrats (FDP), looked like a dead man walking at the start of the year, until he took a major risk that turned his and his party's fortunes around.
His party, which shares power with Angela Merkel's conservatives, was in freefall, and rivals were planning a putsch, fearful the FDP would be booted out of government in a September election with Roesler at the helm.
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