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Germans faced a stark split screen Sunday night: As France’s president responded to a withering defeat by the far right in the European election by declaring his intention to dissolve the national assembly, their own chancellor performed a disappearing act.

Scholz, the biggest loser of the night, put in a cameo at his party headquarters for a few selfies before going AWOL, leaving to the help the unenviable task of explaining his Social Democrats’ worst showing in a federal election in over a century.

Despite the Scholz camp’s best efforts to shield him, there was no denying that Sunday’s election result — which showed that only 31 percent of Germans supported one of the three parties in Germany’s coalition amid record voter turnout — was a fiasco.

After mismanaging a landmark reform to shift Germany’s heating infrastructure from fossil fuels to renewable energy, Scholz’s government suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of the country’s highest court, which ruled its budget unconstitutional.

Put simply, the SPD and Greens want to spend more money and the FDP, citing Germany’s constitutional debt brake (and their own fiscal orthodoxy), less.

In most parliamentary systems, the unwritten rules of democratic decorum would compel the country’s leader to call a new election after the kind of crushing defeat Scholz suffered on Sunday.

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