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SPD's chancellor candidate, Finance Minister and Vice-Chancellor Olaf Scholz, celebrates with party members in the SPD's headquarters in Berlin after narrowly winning the German general election. IMAGES
SPD's chancellor candidate, Finance Minister and Vice-Chancellor Olaf Scholz, receives flowers at SPD headquarters in Berlin as Germany braces for a period of political unpredictability after the Social Democrats narrowly won a general election but faced a rival claim to power from outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative camp. IMAGES
Supporters at Germany's SPD party headquarters in Berlin cheer and applaud preliminary election results, which show the centre-left Social Democrats taking a razor-thin lead on Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives in Sunday's vote to decide her successor. IMAGES
SPD candidate for the German chancellorship Olaf Scholz holds a final rally in Cologne ahead of the country's general election on September 26. The race boils down to a two-way contest between Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, the centrist finance minister, and Armin Laschet from Merkel's conservative Christian Democrats. IMAGES
Olaf Scholz, the centre-left Social Democrat (SPD) candidate to succeed Angela Merkel, attends a campaign rally in Berlin. IMAGES