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Social Democratic Party, SPD, chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz, second left, poses for media with the Green party leaders Annalena Baerbock, second from right, and Robert Habeck, right, and the Free Democratic Party chairman Christian Lindner, left, in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Nov. 24, 2021. After weeks of negotiations the leaders of the three parties present a coalition contract for a new German government. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)