Germany's troubled Social Democrats (SPD) on Monday discussed appointing th...
BERLIN - Germany’s troubled Social Democrats on Monday discussed appointing three caretaker leaders after Andrea Nahles quit, with members appalled by plummeting popularity agitating for the party to leave Chancellor Angela Merkel’s scrappy coalition.
Voters have punished the SPD for its decision to step in as a coalition partner of last resort with ever more disastrous poll showings, culminating last weekend in the party being toppled in its stronghold city of Bremen after 70 years. “It is hard to see why the SPD would want to trade its chunk of governmental power for the impotence of an opposition role. But the party is rudderless and deeply wounded,” said Josef Joffe, publisher-editor of weekly Die Zeit.
If the SPD decides to pull out of the ruling alliance, options include new elections, an even more unwieldy coalition of three party groups, or a minority conservative government propped up on an ad hoc basis.
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