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Olaf Scholz receives flowers in the Bundestag
Photo: Fabrizio Bensch / REUTERS
He is elected, officially appointed: Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier presented the new Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) with the certificate of appointment at Bellevue Palace.
Then Scholz has to take his oath of office in the Bundestag.
In the morning he was elected ninth Chancellor of the Federal Republic with an absolute majority in parliament.
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