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German voters favour an immediate election, a survey revealed on Thursday, after the collapse of the governing three-party coalition. Some 65% of those surveyed support an immediate call for elections to the Bundestag, or lower house of parliament, while 33% agreed with Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s intention to hold them in March. The survey by Infratest-Dimap for German public broadcaster ARD showed 34% of citizens would vote for the opposition Christian Democratic Union (CDU), with 18% opting for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD). Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) were on 16%, while the …

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