The social-democratic party SPD of Olaf Scholz is clearly ahead of the conservatives of the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia, the main region of Germany which elected its parliament on Sunday, according to first estimates.
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The chancellor's party, criticized for its discretion in the Ukrainian crisis, would only win around 28% of the vote, against 35% for the Christian Democrats, at the head since 2017 of this region which has been a stronghold for several decades. social democrat, according to estimates for the public channels ARD and ZDF.