Incumbent Olaf Scholz will be the chancellor candidate from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), despite his extremely low ratings, reports Bild.

In recent days, leaders of the SPD, which heads the current ruling coalition in the country, have been debating who to nominate as chancellor candidate in February's snap election.

The current leader of the German government, Olaf Scholz, has announced that he wants to be re-elected, but he has the lowest approval rating (31.4%) of all major German politicians.

Meanwhile, another Social Democrat, Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, is the most popular (52.8%) politician in Germany.

A number of prominent SPD members and regional cells supported Pistorius. But the majority of the party leadership remained loyal to Scholz.

In the end, the Scholz supporters won, and Pistorius announced that he would not run for chancellor from the SPD..

Scholz, however, is clearly losing to the other candidates, according to the INSA polling institute.