German Chancellor Angela Merkel has distanced herself from Olaf Scholz, the Social Democratic Party’s candidate to succeed her in the country’s top job, in a bid to help revive the campaign of Armin Laschet, the flag bearer for her own party in an election this month. Merkel dismissed Scholz’s efforts to
“With me as chancellor, there would never be a coalition in which The Left party is involved. As it is not clear whether this is the case with Olaf Scholz or not
