Two German states are holding elections at the halfway mark of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s...
BERLIN — Two German states hold elections on Sunday at the halfway mark of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's unpopular national government, with polls showing the center-right opposition well ahead and Germany's interior minister facing an uphill struggle in a bid to become governor of her home region. About 9.4 million people are eligible to vote for the new state legislature in Bavaria and around 4.
The three national governing parties — the Social Democrats, the Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats — won't do well on Sunday because people “aren't confident in their being able to solve the problems in the country,” prominent political scientist Karl-Rudolf Korte told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper. “That has to do with the variety of crises, but also with the communication,' he said.
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