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Germany is set to head to the polls on February 23 following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s centre-left coalition, sources told dpa on Tuesday. Parliamentary leaders from the country’s largest political parties – Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) and the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) – have reached an agreement on a timetable to call the election, sources from both sides told dpa. Scholz is expected to table a vote of confidence in the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, on December 16. If, as expected, he loses the vote, President Frank-Walter Steinmeier can call…