Berlin
Traditionally called the “federal mini-election”, Sunday’s ballot in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW, 13 million voters, or more than one in five Germans) will look like a test election for Olaf Scholz .
It is a reduced Germany.
The Land concentrates the bitumen of the urban arc between Dortmund and Cologne, the green expanses of farms along the Dutch border and the industrial horizons of open-cast lignite mines or factories in the Ruhr.
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Within the same Land cohabit some of the most disadvantaged populations of the country, in Essen or Dinslaken, and the rich inhabitants of Düsseldorf or Leverkusen.
The GDP of the region, inflated by the headquarters of heavyweights like Bayer or Lidl, is equivalent to that of Switzerland.
In the midst of an international crisis, the Chancellor will have made no less than four trips to NRW, including a final meeting on Friday in Cologne.
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