Germany’s Unpopular Chancellor Dodges Political Bullet In State Vote (Worthy News Analysis)

By Stefan J. Bos, Chief International Correspondent Worthy News BERLIN/BUDAPEST (Worthy News) – Unpopular Chancellor Olaf Scholz was offered a rare political lifeline as his Social Democrats (SPD) narrowly defeated the fiercely anti-migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Sunday’s elections in the eastern state of Brandenburg. The final results, released by the German state’s electoral administration, showed that the Social Democrats received 30.9 percent of the vote, while the AfD tra