Germany is set to head to the polls on February 23 following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s centre-left coalition. Parliamentary leaders from the country’s largest political parties – including Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) and the opposition conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) – reached an agreement on Tuesday 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 f…