Germany: Scholz’s party defeated in bellwether North Rhine-Westphalia election
By DW
22 May 2022 |
2:15 pm
In a blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz's SPD party, voters backed the conservatives, CDU, in an election Germany's most populous state. The Greens meanwhile more than doubled the number of votes they received.
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