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BERLIN: Olaf Scholz’s hopes of forming Germany’s next coalition government were given a boost on Wednesday with congratulations from outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel and his main rival after his weekend election win. Merkel’s CDU-CSU conservative bloc slumped to its worst ever result in Sunday’s general election with 24.1 percent of the vote, behind Scholz’s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) at 25.7 …

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