FILE - Saarland top candidate of the Social Democratic Party, SPD, Anke Rehlinger, comments the results of yesterday's state election in Saarland at the party's headquarters in Berlin, Monday, March 27, 2017. The western German state of Saarland is holding a state election Sunday, March 27, 2022 that offers the country's first test at the ballot box since Chancellor Olaf Scholz's national government took office in December. Polls point to a solid lead for Scholz's center-left Social Democrats in a region led since 1999 by the center-right Christian Democratic Union of Scholz's predecessor, Angela Merkel. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)