A combination of 9 pictures shows the top candidates for the leadership of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD), (top row L-R) Michael Roth, Christina Kampmann, Nina Scheer, Karl Lauterbach, Klara Geywitz and Olaf Scholz (mid row L-R) Karl-Heinz Brunner, Petra Koepping, Boris Pistorius, Alexander Ahrens and Simone Lange (bottom row L-R) Hilde Mattheis, Dierk Hirschel, Gesine Schwan, Ralf Stegner, Norbert Walter-Bojans and Saskia Esken in Saarbruecken, Germany, September 4, 2019. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski