The top candidate of the Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), Kai Wegner, celebrates after the state elections in Berlin, Germany, on Feb. 12, 2023. Members of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's party have approved a local coalition deal in Berlin with Germany's main center-right opposition party, paving the way for the capital's first conservative mayor in more than two decades.The Social Democrats' Berlin branch said Sunday April 23, 2023 that 54.3% of members who voted in a ballot backed the agreement. A convention of the center-right Christian Democratic Union is expected to approve it on Monday, the last step before the state legislature can elect Wegner as mayor later in the week. (Fabian Sommer/dpa via AP, File)
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