Tag: Merkel's coalition

• Monday, September 2nd 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Extreme right advances in German regional elections deepens ruling coalition division

  

  Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and her Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners bled support to the far right in two state elections in eastern Germany on Sunday, dealing a double blow to her already unstable ruling alliance.

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

  German regional election signals countdown for Merkel's coalition

  

  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, July 2nd 2018 - 08:41 UTC

  Merkel's coalition on the cliff over differences on migration policy with her Bavarian allies

  

  The resolution to Germany's government crisis proved elusive on Sunday after the head of the Bavaria-only Christian Social Union in Angela Merkel's conservative bloc offered his resignation rather than back down from his stance against the chancellor's migration policies.