German Finance Minister, Vice-Chancellor, and the Social Democratic Party's (SPD) chancellor candidate Olaf Scholz, second right, and his wife Britta Ernst, second left, are seen after voting at the parliamentary elections at a polling station in Potsdam, Germany. Following the elections to the Bundestag, a new German government will be formed with a new chancellor at the head. About 60 million Germans are eligible to vote in the elections for a new federal parliament.
