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Parliament's lower house, the Bundestag, said Monday that Speaker Julia Klockner is preparing to call the session early next month.
The proposed coalition of his center-right Christian Democratic Union; its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union; and Scholz's center-left Social Democrats has a relatively modest majority.
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