The next German national elections are to take place on September 28, 2025, according to a decision by the Cabinet on Wednesday. The date put forward by the Cabinet has yet to be approved by the president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, but this is usually a formality. The last elections in 2021 were won by Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats. He went on to form what has been an uneasy three-way coalition with the Greens and the liberal Free Democrats. The centre-left coalition has lost much of its popularity since then, however, and is currently being beaten soundly by the conservative opposi…