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People walk and drive past election posters of the three chancellor candidates in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Sept. 23, 2021.

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Aliye Tuerkyilmaz a member of a multilingual team of five street workers shows an information flyer as she poses for a photo in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, March 9, 2021.

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In this Sept. 7, 2021 file photo, Olaf Scholz (SPD), his party's top candidate in the upcoming federal election, visits a public viewing of the SPD in the bar "Strandsalon".

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Olaf Scholz, the Social Democrats' candidate for German chancellor

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