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Social Democratic Party, SPD, chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz, second left, stands with the Green party leaders Annalena Baerbock, second right, and Robert Habeck, right, and the Free Democratic Party chairman Christian Lindner, left, at a joint news conference 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)