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The deputy leader of Germany’s free-market liberal Free Democrats (FDP), Wolfgang Kubicki, said Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s three-party coalition government has “lost its legitimacy” in light of poor results in a pair of state elections on Sunday. The FDP is part of Scholz’s coalition, and is projected for a terrible showing of around just 1% in both Thuringia and Saxony, based on initial results and exit polls. That will leave the party without any seats in either state parliament. People have the impression that “this coalition is damaging the country,” Kubicki said of the national government i…

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