After 16 years with Chancellor Angela Merkel at the helm, Germany will be getting a new government. When exactly is anybody’s guess, but it already seems quite likely that it will no longer be led by her center-right Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU). With the fog settling after a remarkable election night on September 26, preliminarily results published early the next morning confirmed a win for the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) led by Finance Minister and Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
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