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Germany's Green party celebrates the preliminary results of the North Rhine-Westphalia regional elections, showing that the party had tripled its previous score to take around 18 percent of this year's vote. Party candidate for the region Mona Neubaur attributes this to the action led by Green ministers at the federal level, where they have been perceived as stronger than the SPD in their response to the war in Ukraine, with Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck and Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock now Germany's most popular politicians. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES of Mona Neubaur