Two weeks before the next anticipated legislative elections, the German chancellor Olaf Scholz and his challenger, the Christian democrat Friedrich Merz, clashed on Sunday, February 9 during a 90-minute television debate. For Olaf Scholz, in great difficulty in the polls, this meeting constituted one of the last chances of going up the slope.
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Legislative in Germany: Olaf Scholz at the offensive during the televised debate against Friedrich Merz
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