The German government on Wednesday chose September 26, 2021, for the next general election, to elect a successor to Chancellor Angela Merkel, government spokeswoman Martina Fietz said.

The government “proposes to the federal president the date of Sunday, September 26, 2021,for the election of the 20th Bundestag (lower house of parliament),” Fietz told reporters.

President Frank-Walter Steinmeier must still give his official approval.

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