Posters showing Germany’s top candidates for the upcoming federal elections Olaf Scholz, Germany’s minister of finance of the Social Democrats (SPD), Christian Lindner of the Free Democrats (FDP), Annalena Baerbock, co-leader of the Green party, and North Rhine-Westphalia’s State Premier and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Armin Laschet are seen in Schenefeld near Hamburg, Germany September 23, 2021. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer