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dominating conversations on the campaign trail.</p></div></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-style-111boms"><div class="MuiBox-root mui-style-16djoje-info"><a class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineNone mui-style-16wvez9-programLink-root" href="/programs/the-world">The World</a><div class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-subtitle1 mui-style-1plbpyc-date"><time dateTime="2025-02-21T19:48:17.000Z">February 21, 2025</time></div><ul class="mui-style-fol0bf-byline"><li class="mui-style-lloic3-bylineItem">By <span class="MuiBox-root mui-style-j9gegf-bylinePeople"><span class="MuiBox-root mui-style-1pajl0l-bylinePerson"><a class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineNone mui-style-dg2cgg-bylineLink-root" href="/contributors/orla-barry">Orla Barry</a></span></span></li></ul></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-style-h2b8up-audio"><div class="MuiBox-root mui-style-d0bi7-root" data-variant="feature" data-size="medium"></div></div></div></div></div></header><div class="MuiContainer-root MuiContainer-maxWidthLg MuiContainer-fixed mui-style-13xjx2g-footer"><span class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-caption mui-style-1qqc970-caption"><p>Billboard-sized election posters for the Free Democrats’ leader Christian Lindner and the Social Democrats’ Olaf Scholz stand side by side at Moritzplatz in Berlin, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. The two party leaders were former partners in the “traffic light coalition,” the break up of which led the incumbent Chancellor Olaf Scholz to call for Sunday’s snap elections. </p></span><span class="MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-caption mui-style-9c3gfo-root-credit">Joshua Coe/The World</span></div><div class="MuiContainer-root MuiContainer-maxWidthLg MuiContainer-fixed mui-style-1i0ok2z"><div class="MuiBox-root mui-style-9h7nzz-body"><audio class="mui-style-1orlj4t-root" src="https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/_/300/cf5855b2-d700-41ee-8995-4f1416a01573/2025_0221_01.mp3" controls="" preload="none"></audio><p>As Germany gears up for parliamentary elections this Sunday, the country’s struggling economy and the future of immigration policy are top of mind for voters. </p><p>The snap election comes after the collapse of the “traffic light” coalition government led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz last December. His party, the Social Democrats, is <a href="https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/germany/">trailing third</a> in the polls, behind the center-right Christian Democratic Union and the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD.</p><p>When the coalition came to power, Berlin resident Kim Noack, 28, said she was excited because the other two coalition partners, the Green Party and the Free Democrats, were popular among young people in Germany. But, that coalition is now defunct.</p><p>“Right now, I’m quite disappointed because I feel like they were not really listening to the demands of the people and what we wished for,” Noack said. </p><p>A former supporter of the Free Democrats, Noack said she’s now supporting the Christian Democrats because the country needs to change its policies, including on immigration.</p><p>“Globalization and migration … is a good thing,” said Noack, whose husband emigrated from Argentina to Germany. “But I just think that it’s important that we regulate that from a good … point of view to support people coming here [who] want to work and integrate in our system.” </p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img alt="" loading="lazy" width="1024" height="768" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="wp-image-652573" style="color:transparent" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 1200px" srcSet="/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.pri.org%2Fs3fs-public%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F02%2F2025-02-21-Germany-elections-Moritzplatz-oster-1024x768.jpeg&w=370&q=75 370w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.pri.org%2Fs3fs-public%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F02%2F2025-02-21-Germany-elections-Moritzplatz-oster-1024x768.jpeg&w=400&q=75 400w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.pri.org%2Fs3fs-public%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F02%2F2025-02-21-Germany-elections-Moritzplatz-oster-1024x768.jpeg&w=568&q=75 568w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.pri.org%2Fs3fs-public%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F02%2F2025-02-21-Germany-elections-Moritzplatz-oster-1024x768.jpeg&w=600&q=75 600w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.pri.org%2Fs3fs-public%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F02%2F2025-02-21-Germany-elections-Moritzplatz-oster-1024x768.jpeg&w=808&q=75 808w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.pri.org%2Fs3fs-public%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F02%2F2025-02-21-Germany-elections-Moritzplatz-oster-1024x768.jpeg&w=960&q=75 960w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.pri.org%2Fs3fs-public%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F02%2F2025-02-21-Germany-elections-Moritzplatz-oster-1024x768.jpeg&w=1280&q=75 1280w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.pri.org%2Fs3fs-public%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F02%2F2025-02-21-Germany-elections-Moritzplatz-oster-1024x768.jpeg&w=1920&q=75 1920w" src="/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.pri.org%2Fs3fs-public%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F02%2F2025-02-21-Germany-elections-Moritzplatz-oster-1024x768.jpeg&w=1920&q=75"/><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">On Feb. 17, 2025, a campaign poster in the Moritzplatz neighborhood of Berlin promotes the Christian Democrats and the party leader Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor. The caption reads, “Strong Chancellor. Strong Germany.” <span class="media-credit">Joshua Coe/The World</span></figcaption></figure><p>Voter Antje Buttker, 56, expressed similar views on immigration: “Everyone can come here, but they should get a job and integrate.”</p><p>But the major parties, she said, have been “thoughtless” on issues like immigration policy. She believes the party to turn things around was the far-right AfD. </p><p>“Because I hope that something will improve,” said Buttker, who works as a caregiver for patients with dementia. “That we no longer let everyone in. That our German people still have rights. My mother can’t even get a nursing home placement or a cardiologist — all because everything is taken.” </p><p>Polls show that <a href="https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/germany/">one in five</a> Germans support the AfD, a far-right party with members <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-afd-party-domestic-intelligence-agency-court-rule/">monitored</a> by Germany’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which keeps members under surveillance as party affiliates are considered extremist organizations “against the principles of democracy.”</p><p>Last year, AfD officials were <a href="https://correctiv.org/en/top-stories/2024/01/15/secret-plan-against-germany/">revealed</a> to be associating with neo-Nazis and planning a policy of “remigration” to deport immigrants. The revelations <a href="/stories/2024/01/23/i-m-here-fight-democracy-tens-thousands-protest-against-far-right-germany">sparked massive nationwide protests</a>.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img alt="" loading="lazy" width="1024" height="809" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="wp-image-652574" style="color:transparent" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 1200px" srcSet="/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.pri.org%2Fs3fs-public%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F02%2F2025-02-21-Berlin-demonstration-1024x809.jpeg&w=370&q=75 370w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.pri.org%2Fs3fs-public%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F02%2F2025-02-21-Berlin-demonstration-1024x809.jpeg&w=400&q=75 400w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.pri.org%2Fs3fs-public%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F02%2F2025-02-21-Berlin-demonstration-1024x809.jpeg&w=568&q=75 568w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.pri.org%2Fs3fs-public%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F02%2F2025-02-21-Berlin-demonstration-1024x809.jpeg&w=600&q=75 600w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.pri.org%2Fs3fs-public%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F02%2F2025-02-21-Berlin-demonstration-1024x809.jpeg&w=808&q=75 808w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.pri.org%2Fs3fs-public%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F02%2F2025-02-21-Berlin-demonstration-1024x809.jpeg&w=960&q=75 960w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.pri.org%2Fs3fs-public%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F02%2F2025-02-21-Berlin-demonstration-1024x809.jpeg&w=1280&q=75 1280w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.pri.org%2Fs3fs-public%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F02%2F2025-02-21-Berlin-demonstration-1024x809.jpeg&w=1920&q=75 1920w" src="/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.pri.org%2Fs3fs-public%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F02%2F2025-02-21-Berlin-demonstration-1024x809.jpeg&w=1920&q=75"/><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Thousands attended a demonstration against the far-right held at Bebelplatz in Berlin, the site of a Nazi bookburning in 1933, on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. A sign held up in the foreground reads, “Facism is no alternative — especially not for Germany.”<span class="media-credit">Joshua Coe/The World</span></figcaption></figure><p>“It’s far easier to defend a democracy than to fight a dictatorship,” said Tareq Alaows on stage at a demonstration against the AfD in Berlin last Sunday. Thousands attended the event held at Bebelplatz, <a href="https://www.visitberlin.de/de/denkmal-zur-erinnerung-die-buecherverbrennung">the site of an infamous Nazi bookburning in 1933</a>.</p><p>Alaows arrived in Germany in 2015 from Syria, after fleeing the Assad regime for political and religious reasons. At the time, the German government under Chancellor Angela Merkel was rolling out the welcome mat to the thousands of Syrian asylum seekers crossing into the country. </p><p>Merkel, who led the Christian Democrats, famously said of the influx of migrants: “We’ll manage it.”</p><p>Now, the party’s current leader and the election’s frontrunner, Friedrich Merz, has vowed to close the country’s borders to all undocumented migrants.</p><p>“People are very afraid,” Alaows told The World. He became a German citizen in the decade since arriving and now works with refugee rights group Pro Asyl. “People are very afraid, and many people are considering emigrating.”</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img alt="" loading="lazy" width="1024" height="768" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="wp-image-652575" style="color:transparent" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 1200px" srcSet="/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.pri.org%2Fs3fs-public%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F02%2F2025-02-21-Germany-Tareq-Alaows-1024x768.jpeg&w=370&q=75 370w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.pri.org%2Fs3fs-public%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F02%2F2025-02-21-Germany-Tareq-Alaows-1024x768.jpeg&w=400&q=75 400w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.pri.org%2Fs3fs-public%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F02%2F2025-02-21-Germany-Tareq-Alaows-1024x768.jpeg&w=568&q=75 568w, /_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.pri.org%2Fs3fs-public%2Fuploads%2F2025%2F02%2F2025-02-21-Germany-Tareq-Alaows-1024x768.jpeg&w=600&q=75 600w, 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he believes to be the party looking out for immigrants in the current election.</p><p>“Germany has had three years of economic stagnation … so the economy’s basically at zero growth,” said Marcel Fratzscher, president of the German Institute for Economic Research.</p><p>Fratzscher says if the German government really wants to yank the economy up off its knees, it needs migrants.</p><p>“With the demographic shift, more and more baby boomers retiring, Germany’s economic future very much depends on whether it is able to attract immigrants,” Fratzscher said. “Not just highly qualified engineers, but also along all skill levels, over the coming 10 to 15 years.”</p><p><em>Joshua Coe contributed from Berlin.</em></p></div><div class="MuiBox-root mui-style-1t8i9fu-root"><div class="MuiPaper-root MuiPaper-elevation MuiPaper-rounded MuiPaper-elevation0 MuiCard-root mui-style-1cif8be"><div class="MuiCardHeader-root mui-style-faujvq"><div class="MuiCardHeader-content mui-style-11qjisw"><span 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voters weigh options ahead of election hinging on immigration, sluggish economy","excerpt":"\u003cp\u003eGermany heads to the polls on Sunday, with the country\u0026#8217;s stagnant economy and heated rows over immigration policy dominating conversations on the campaign trail.\u003c/p\u003e\n","content":"\n\u003cp\u003eAs Germany gears up for parliamentary elections this Sunday, the country’s struggling economy and the future of immigration policy are top of mind for voters.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe snap election comes after the collapse of the \u0026#8220;traffic light\u0026#8221; coalition government led by Chancellor Olaf Scholz last December. His party, the Social Democrats, is \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/germany/\"\u003etrailing third\u003c/a\u003e in the polls, behind the center-right Christian Democratic Union and the far-right Alternative for Germany, or AfD.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen the coalition came to power, Berlin resident Kim Noack, 28, said she was excited because the other two coalition partners, the Green Party and the Free Democrats, were popular among young people in Germany. But, that coalition is now defunct.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Right now, I\u0026#8217;m quite disappointed because I feel like they were not really listening to the demands of the people and what we wished for,\u0026#8221; Noack said. \u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eA former supporter of the Free Democrats, Noack said she’s now supporting the Christian Democrats because the country needs to change its policies, including on immigration.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Globalization and migration … is a good thing,” said Noack, whose husband emigrated from Argentina to Germany. “But I just think that it\u0026#8217;s important that we regulate that from a good … point of view to support people coming here [who] want to work and integrate in our system.”\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-21-Germany-elections-Moritzplatz-oster-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-652573\" srcset=\"https://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-21-Germany-elections-Moritzplatz-oster-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-21-Germany-elections-Moritzplatz-oster-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-21-Germany-elections-Moritzplatz-oster-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-21-Germany-elections-Moritzplatz-oster-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-21-Germany-elections-Moritzplatz-oster-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /\u003e\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"\u003eOn Feb. 17, 2025, a campaign poster in the Moritzplatz neighborhood of Berlin promotes the Christian Democrats and the party leader Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become Germany’s next chancellor. The caption reads, “Strong Chancellor. Strong Germany.” \u003cspan class=\"media-credit\"\u003eJoshua Coe/The World\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/figcaption\u003e\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eVoter Antje Buttker, 56, expressed similar views on immigration: “Everyone can come here, but they should get a job and integrate.”\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut the major parties, she said, have been “thoughtless” on issues like immigration policy.\u0026nbsp;She believes the party to turn things around was the far-right AfD.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Because I hope that something will improve,” said Buttker, who works as a caregiver for patients with dementia. “That we no longer let everyone in. That our German people still have rights. My mother can\u0026#8217;t even get a nursing home placement or a cardiologist — all because everything is taken.”\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003ePolls show that \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.eu/europe-poll-of-polls/germany/\"\u003eone in five\u003c/a\u003e Germans support the AfD, a far-right party with members \u003ca href=\"https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-afd-party-domestic-intelligence-agency-court-rule/\"\u003emonitored\u003c/a\u003e by Germany’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which keeps members under surveillance as party affiliates are considered extremist organizations “against the principles of democracy.”\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eLast year, AfD officials were \u003ca href=\"https://correctiv.org/en/top-stories/2024/01/15/secret-plan-against-germany/\"\u003erevealed\u003c/a\u003e to be associating with neo-Nazis and planning a policy of “remigration” to deport immigrants. The revelations \u003ca href=\"https://theworld.org/stories/2024/01/23/i-m-here-fight-democracy-tens-thousands-protest-against-far-right-germany\"\u003esparked massive nationwide protests\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"809\" src=\"https://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-21-Berlin-demonstration-1024x809.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-652574\" srcset=\"https://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-21-Berlin-demonstration-1024x809.jpeg 1024w, https://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-21-Berlin-demonstration-300x237.jpeg 300w, https://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-21-Berlin-demonstration-768x607.jpeg 768w, https://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-21-Berlin-demonstration-1536x1214.jpeg 1536w, https://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-21-Berlin-demonstration-2048x1618.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /\u003e\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"\u003eThousands attended a demonstration against the far-right held at Bebelplatz in Berlin, the site of a Nazi bookburning in 1933, on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. A sign held up in the foreground reads, “Facism is no alternative — especially not for Germany.”\u003cspan class=\"media-credit\"\u003eJoshua Coe/The World\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/figcaption\u003e\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e“It’s far easier to defend a democracy than to fight a dictatorship,” said Tareq Alaows on stage at a demonstration against the AfD in Berlin last Sunday. Thousands attended the event held at Bebelplatz, \u003ca href=\"https://www.visitberlin.de/de/denkmal-zur-erinnerung-die-buecherverbrennung\"\u003ethe site of an infamous Nazi bookburning in 1933\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlaows arrived in Germany in 2015 from Syria, after fleeing the Assad regime for political and religious reasons. At the time, the German government under Chancellor Angela Merkel was rolling out the welcome mat to the thousands of Syrian asylum seekers crossing into the country.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eMerkel, who led the Christian Democrats, famously said of the influx of migrants: “We’ll manage it.”\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow, the party’s current leader and the election’s frontrunner, Friedrich Merz, has vowed to close the country’s borders to all undocumented migrants.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e“People are very afraid,” Alaows told The World. He became a German citizen in the decade since arriving and now works with refugee rights group Pro Asyl. “People are very afraid, and many people are considering emigrating.”\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"\u003e\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-21-Germany-Tareq-Alaows-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-652575\" srcset=\"https://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-21-Germany-Tareq-Alaows-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-21-Germany-Tareq-Alaows-300x225.jpeg 300w, https://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-21-Germany-Tareq-Alaows-768x576.jpeg 768w, https://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-21-Germany-Tareq-Alaows-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-21-Germany-Tareq-Alaows-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" /\u003e\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"\u003eTareq Alaows in office of the refugee rights organization Pro Asyl in Berlin, Feb. 18, 2025.\u003cspan class=\"media-credit\"\u003eJoshua Coe/The World\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/figcaption\u003e\u003c/figure\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this election, he’s backing the Left Party, which he believes to be the party looking out for immigrants in the current election.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Germany has had three years of economic stagnation … so the economy\u0026#8217;s basically at zero growth,” said Marcel Fratzscher, president of the German Institute for Economic Research.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003eFratzscher says if the German government really wants to yank the economy up off its knees, it needs migrants.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e“With the demographic shift, more and more baby boomers retiring, Germany\u0026#8217;s economic future very much depends on whether it is able to attract immigrants,” Fratzscher said. “Not just highly qualified engineers, but also along all skill levels, over the coming 10 to 15 years.”\u003c/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJoshua Coe contributed from Berlin.\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n","date":"2025-02-21T14:48:17","featuredImage":{"node":{"id":"cG9zdDo2NTI1NzI=","sourceUrl":"https://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-21-Germany-elections-lede-scaled.jpeg","mediaItemUrl":"https://media.pri.org/s3fs-public/uploads/2025/02/2025-02-21-Germany-elections-lede-scaled.jpeg","altText":"","mediaDetails":{"width":2560,"height":1440,"__typename":"MediaDetails"},"imageFields":{"mediaCredit":"Joshua Coe/The World","mediaCreditUrl":null,"__typename":"MediaItem_Imagefields"},"__typename":"MediaItem","caption":"\u003cp\u003eBillboard-sized election posters for the Free Democrats’ leader Christian Lindner and the Social Democrats’ Olaf Scholz stand side by side at Moritzplatz in Berlin, Monday, Feb. 17, 2025. 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