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German Finance Minister, Vice-Chancellor and SPD candidate for chancellor Olaf Scholz (R) reacts in the background as Rhineland-Palatinate's State Premier and top candidate of the social democratic SPD party Malu Dreyer is presented with flowers in Berlin on March 15, 2021, following the results in the regional elections in the German federal states of Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Wuerttemberg. (Photo by HANNIBAL HANSCHKE / POOL / AFP) (KEYSTONE/POOL/HANNIBAL HANSCHKE)