German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats have suffered losses and the opposition Christian Democrats (CDU) made gains in the North Rhine-Westphalia state election on Sunday, according to exit polls. The CDU won the most votes in Sunday’s election in Germany’s most populous state, according to projections from public broadcasters ARD and ZDF. The CDU was clearly ahead with a rise of 2% to 35% of the vote, while the Social Democrats (SPD) got 28%, down 3.2% on the last state election. The Greens meanwhile more than doubled the number of ballots they received with a 11.6% boost to 18% of …