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Germany election: SPD's Olaf Scholz wins latest television debate

But his joy may be short-lived. Today Scholz faces a high-risk parliamentary hearing on an obstruction of justice case involving the finance ministry that he heads.

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Has the AfD's Nazi rhetoric doomed it to electoral oblivion?

After a massive win in the 2017 elections, the far-right party is little more than a footnote this time around.

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German elections 2021: Armin Laschet tries to regain public trust

Armin Laschet is Germany's CDU/CSU candidate for chancellor. He has seen his popularity drop in recent months due to several scandals and a string of public gaffes. Find out more about this former journalist and current leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU).

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Profile: Christian Social Union leader Markus Söder

Söder was a strong contender to replace Merkel to become the conservative CDU/CSU bloc's candidate, but he eventually bowed out to Armin Laschet

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Profile: Social Democratic Party leader Olaf Scholz

The SPD's candidate for chancellor has certainly made a name for himself on the international stage.

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Profile: Free Democratic Party leader Christian Lindner

The 42-year-old leader of Germany's Free Democratic Party has his sights on becoming the country's finance minister.

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German election tool helps voters choose between 40 parties

The 'Wahl-O-Mat' compares a voter's political positions with the positions of Germany's political parties.

Europe Decoded

Fact check: Unvaccinated citizens can vote in German election

False claims have suggested that citizens need a COVID-19 health pass to vote in this month's federal election.

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Germany: SPD ahead of Merkel's CDU in polls for first time in 15 years

The change comes just a month before the country's federal election.

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Germany's parties kick-off their campaigns ahead of pivotal election

The vote on Sunday, September 26 will determine who will take over from Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is stepping down after 16 years in office.

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Merkel successor hopeful Armin Laschet apologises for book plagiarism

CDU leadership candidate Armin Laschet admitted that he had failed to credit a source in a 2009 book he wrote about immigration.

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Merkel's party fends off far-right AfD challenge in Saxony-Anhalt vote

Angela Merkel's centre-right CDU won 37%.1 of the vote, final results showed, in regional elections in Saxony-Anhalt seen as a last test before the national election in September.

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Germany's CDU backs Armin Laschet as candidate to replace Merkel

Laschet, the 60-year-old premier for North Rhine-Westphalia was picked over Markus Soder, the popular leader of Bavaria's Christian Social Union.

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German election: Six months ahead of the vote, where do things stand?

Two key things make this election remarkable: Chancellor Angela Merkel is bowing out after 16 years in office and, perhaps even more significantly, the fact that no one can really predict what is going to happen now after years of certainty.

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Merkel's centre-right party defeated in two German state elections

Sunday's elections were viewed as a key test to determine what voters think of the government's handling of the COVID-19 pandemic and to determine what they think of Merkel's successor.

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Germany 'super election year' starts with state and regional ballots

On Sunday two German states with a combined population of over 15 million people will elect new regional governments. It's the start of the so-called 'super election year' culminating with federal elections in September.

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Germany sets general election date and an end to the Merkel era

Angela Merkel is the second longest-serving German chancellor.

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Angela Merkel's deputy Olaf Scholz to run for chancellor in 2021 vote

Germany's current finance minister said he was unanimously designated as the Social Democratic Party's candidate in the upcoming election for chancellor.

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Merkel successor Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to quit over vote fiasco

Merkel successor Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer announced that she will quit her role as head of the CDU after the party was criticised over a regional election in Thuringia.

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Why are this weekend's state elections in Germany so significant?

"It is possible these two results shake up the political system nationwide. But if the SBD stays in power in Bradenburg and the CDU stays in power in Saxony, this could be, as we say in German, a storm in a water bottle (storm in a teacup)."