Heavy defeat for Scholz’s SPD in German regional vote
Exit polls from Germany’s most populous state of North Rhine-Westphalia on Sunday showed Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) trailing the conservative CDU by a wide margin. Surveys published after polling stations closed at 6:00 pm (1600 GMT) put the conservatives on around 35 percent, with the SPD on around 28 percent — a result … Read more
