Germany’s Olaf Scholz was November 25 officially named to lead his Social Democrats into February elections, but the embattled chancellor faces a tough fight to win a second term. The way had been cleared for Scholz to become the SPD’s chancellor candidate after his popular defence minister, Boris Pistorius, ruled himself out of the race...

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