These pictures from the 2021 election campaign show the leading candidates Annalena Baerbock (Alliance 90/The Greens), Christian Lindner (FDP) and Olaf Scholz (SPD). After sixteen years in which the CDU/CSU had governed with one coalition partner each, there was a profound change in 2021. The SPD, Alliance 90/The Greens and FDP formed a coalition after the election. Olaf Scholz was elected as the ninth Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.