The two leaders of Germany’s Social Democratic Party (SPD), Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party, will retain dual leadership despite poor recent showings in regional elections and rising national dissatisfaction with the government’s performance. At the SDP’s national party conference in Berlin on Friday, Lars Klingbeil and Saskia Esken were elected by some 600 delegates as chairpersons for another two years. Klingbeil received 85.6% of the vote, just short of the 86.3% he garnered in 2021, when the SPD became Germany’s strongest party for the first time in almost 20 years. Esken received 82.6%, co…