 The act, which featured another puppet of Schröder simulating sex with the four backing singers, the "Gerdnerinnen" (Gerdettes, a word play on the German word for gardener), received 30% of the German vote, taking third place and losing out to Lou's feel good anthem "Let's Get Happy" with 38%.From 2005, Anne Onken imitated Angela Merkel on "The Gerd Show", who would later beat Schröder to become chancellor.During the run-up to the 2005 German federal elections, a duet was released between Brandt as Schröder and Onken as Merkel, entitled "Im Wahlkampf vor mir (Zonenmädchen)" (en