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2023-10-09 | Borneo Bulletin

Mid-term test for Scholz’s coalition at German state polls

Germans began voting in two key state elections in a test for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s fractious coalition halfway through its term, while the resurgent far right may get another boost. “The parties that form the federal government are in a bad starting position here,” Arndt Leininger, a political expert from the Chemnitz University of Technology, told AFP. “In both states, all three parties are currently below their results in the last regional elections,” he said.