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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has ruled out holding a vote of confidence in parliament ahead of elections next year. In his annual summer interview with German public broadcaster ZDF, which will be broadcast on Sunday evening, Scholz said his coalition government continues to have a majority in the Bundestag, the country’s lower house, and still has a job to do. Scholz admitted that Germany’s fractured political landscape could make governing the country even more difficult, at both the state and the federal level. “I fear that whatever happens in the next few years, we will continue to have s…

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