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Germany's Social Democrats could end up deciding if the country faces snap elections, the leader of Angela Merkel's party said Monday, after her junior coalition partner sank into chaos over the resignation of its leader. In a surprise announcement that rattlFuture of Merkel's government in hands of crisis-hit SPD
Germany's Social Democrats could end up deciding if the country faces snap elections, the leader of Angela Merkel's party said Monday, after her junior coalition partner sank into chaos over the resignation of its leader. In a surprise announcement that rattled Berlin, Social Democratic Party (SPD) leader Andrea Nahles said Sunday she was quitting her party's top jobs following an European election drubbing late last month. Merkel and other heavyweights in her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) have sought to calm nerves, saying they stood by the coalition. But CDU chief Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer conceded Monday that whether Germany goes to the polls before the end of the electoral term in 2021 would depend on the SPD's next move. «We are ready to keep this coalition going. How the SPD behaves is its decision,» she told journalists following crisis talks within her centre-right party. «There are good reasons to not end a government lightly, from the view of the situation in Germany but also the situation in Europe,» she said. Given the international challenges, it would be «anything but productive if Germany were to go into a government crisis or a lengthy election campaign». The... Read more