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Tag: Andrea Nahles

  • Saturday, December 8th 2018 - 07:28 UTC

    Christian Democrats choose a successor for Merkel: Annegret K-K

    Ms Kramp-Karrenbauer has sometimes been dubbed mini-Merkel or Merkel 2.0, neither nickname she particularly enjoys.

    Germany's ruling Christian Democrat Union has chosen Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as its new party leader, ending Angela Merkel's 18-year reign. The CDU general secretary narrowly beat Friedrich Merz, a millionaire lawyer, in a run-off vote in Hamburg. Ms Kramp-Karrenbauer, or AKK as she is also known, received 517 of 999 votes.

  • Monday, October 29th 2018 - 10:21 UTC

    German regional election signals countdown for Merkel's coalition

    There are growing calls in the SPD to abandon the coalition. The party's leader Andrea Nahles is to present an “action plan” on Monday addressing concerns.

    The regional election in the German state of Hesse has delivered another political blow to Chancellor Angela Merkel with more voters fleeing to the left and right of the party. Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and her coalition partner in Berlin, the Social Democratic Party (SPD), saw heavy losses in the state of Hesse where a regional election was held on Sunday.

  • Monday, April 23rd 2018 - 08:51 UTC

    Woman power in Germany: the two most important leaders are female

    “Today, at this party congress, we're breaking through the glass ceiling in the SPD,” Ms Nahles told the convention. “And the ceiling will stay open.”

    Germany's junior partner in the ruling coalition, the Social Democrats (SPD), has elected its first female leader in the party's 154-year history. Former Labour Minister Andrea Nahles was chosen to replace Martin Schulz, who resigned after the SPD's worst result since 1933 in last year's polls.