Months after taking over from German chancellor Angela Merkel, Olaf Scholz and his Social Democrats (SPD) suffered their second loss at the ballot box within two weeks in a key election seen as a test of national government policy. The Christian Democrats (CDU) won the most votes in Sunday’s election in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state, while voter support for the SPD fell to a historic new low, according to provisional final results released early Monday. The setback is the second in two weeks for the German chancellor, after his SPD, which is currently leading a three-pa…