Lead Candidates Meet For Televised Discussion Following Initial Election Results

BERLIN, GERMANY - SEPTEMBER 26: Christian Lindner, lead candidate of the German Free Democrats (FDP), Markus Soeder, leader of Bavaria's Christian Social Union (CSU), Armin Laschet, chancellor candidate of the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU), (L-4thL), Annalena Baerbock, chancellor candidate of the German Greens Party, and Olaf Scholz (R-3rdR), chancellor candidate of the German Social Democrats (SPD) are pictured ahead of a televised discussion at an ARD/ZDF studio following initial results in federal parliamentary elections on September 26, 2021 in Berlin, Germany. Voters have gone to the polls nationwide today in elections that herald the end of the 16-year chancellorship of Angela Merkel. First projections show a lead for SPD over CDU. (Photo by Michele Tantussi/Getty Images)