Vera ist knorke! Und sorgt für internationale Schlagzeilen: Billboards of German Chancellor Angela Merkel sporting a very revealing low-cut dress have pepped up an elections campaign. The placards have been put up by Vera Lengsfeld, a member of Mrs Merkel’s own conservative Christian Democratic Union party. Ms Lengsfeld is running in a long-shot race for the parliamentary seat of a left-wing district of Berlin in the September 27 poll. Ms Lengsfeld, a former East German dissident, said she had not cleared the picture beforehand with Mrs Merkel, 55. She went on: “I find it amazing how little humour some people have shown over this placard. “People always complain that election posters are boring and then, as soon as someone does something different, people get annoyed.”