Angela Merkel dealt a new blow as coalition partner shifts Left
The rebellion against the SPD establishment pushes Merkel a step closer to the exit after 14 years in power
Berlin — Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government was thrown into crisis on Sunday after Germany’s Social Democrats redrew the country’s political map by electing a new leadership seen as a threat to the survival of her coalition.
Merkel’s SPD vice-chancellor, Olaf Scholz, suffered a stinging defeat in his bid to lead the party as a membership ballot installed Norbert Walter-Borjans and legislator Saskia Esken, a duo supported by a restive party base that has been vocal in opposing the unloved alliance with Merkel. The terms of the new leadership will be laid bare at a three-day party conference starting on Friday...
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