The Social Democrats’ loss in North Rhine-Westphalia—home to a fifth of Germany’s population—is the second painful setback on consecutive weekends for Olaf Scholz
suffered a humiliating defeat at state elections in Schleswig-Holstein, taking only 16% of the votes, the worst result in its history in the state . But the state election inwith the biggest economy and the highest number of inhabitants, with a fifth of the entire population of Germany.coalition,” says Stefan Marschall of Düsseldorf University, referring to the “traffic-light” alliance Mr Scholz heads at the federal level of theand Greens.
Some analysts are already referring to him as a one-term chancellor.alliance. Annalena Baerbock, the Green foreign minister, and Robert Habeck, the Green economy minister and vice-chancellor, are more popular than either Mr Scholz or Christian Lindner, the finance minister, who is leader of thehas been muted. “They understand the explosive power of the election result,” says Klaus Schubert of Münster University. The coalition needs to benefit all three parties if it is to hold together.
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