While the SPD was able to end a string of election defeats in the Brandenburg vote on Sunday, the two other parties in Scholz’s coalition — the Greens and the FDP — continued their streak of dismal losses. The Greens crashed out of the Brandenburg state parliament, winning just around 4 percent, a drop of nearly 7 percentage points from the last election and below the 5-percent threshold needed to gain parliamentary seats. The FDP won less than 1 percent of the vote.
Those results, followed by poor outcomes in state elections earlier this month and the European election in June,…