Just over 100 days after taking power, Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his Social Democrats thump a win in regional polls in the small state of Saarland
The CDU and the SPD had governed in a coalition with the conservatives leading but this time the SPD may well be able to go it alone.
CDU is set for a record low of 27 percent, separate estimates published by broadcasters ARD and ZDF showed. Rehlinger, currently in charge of Saarland's economy, had won over locals with her action for victims of de-industrialisation.
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