Tag: Social Democratic Party of Germany

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

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

  

  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

  

  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, January 6th 2014 - 19:47 UTC

  Merkel fractures her pelvis skiing and calls off foreign visits

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel has fractured her pelvis in a cross-country skiing accident and is walking with the help of crutches, forcing her to call off some foreign visits and official appointments, her spokesman has said.

• Monday, December 16th 2013 - 17:08 UTC

  Germany's 'grand coalition' takes off Tuesday: Social Democrats 6 in 16 ministries

  

  Germany’s main center-left party cleared the way for Angela Merkel to start her third term as chancellor on Tuesday, announcing that its members had voted by a large majority to join the conservative leader in government. The ballot of the Social Democrats’ nearly 475,000 members capped post-World War II Germany’s longest effort to form a government.

• Thursday, November 28th 2013 - 10:50 UTC

  Sigh of relief in Europe: German Chancellor Merkel works out a 'grand coalition'

  

  Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) clinched a coalition deal early Wednesday that puts Germany on track to have a new government in place by Christmas.

• Friday, September 20th 2013 - 19:43 UTC

  Germany’s anti-Euro party could force a ‘grand-coalition’ after Sunday’s election

  

  German voters will go to the polls this Sunday in a national election whose outcome could change the future of Germany and the Euro zone. According to the latest polls, Merkel's conservative lead has narrowed ahead of the vote on Sunday. Merkel and her conservative CDU/CSU coalition would receive 38% of the vote, an INSA poll showed on Thursday.

• Monday, May 10th 2010 - 03:33 UTC

  Greek Crisis Costs Germany’s Coalition Control of Parliament Upper House

  

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party and its coalition allies have been defeated in regional elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, projections suggest. If confirmed, this would see Ms. Merkel's national coalition lose its slim majority in the upper house of parliament, the Bundesrat.