{"id":121411,"date":"2019-12-01T14:20:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T13:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/12\/01\/merkel-government-in-peril-as-leftwing-duo-take-charge-of-spd\/"},"modified":"2019-12-01T14:20:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T13:20:06","slug":"merkel-government-in-peril-as-leftwing-duo-take-charge-of-spd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=121411","title":{"rendered":"Merkel government in peril as leftwing duo take charge of SPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New co-leaders of junior coalition partner want major concessions from Merkel\u2019s CDUThe future of Angela Merkel\u2019s government is in doubt after the election by her junior coalition partners, the Social Democrats (SPD), of a new leftwing leadership duo who have pledged to renegotiate the terms of the alliance.Norbert Walter-Borjans and Saskia Esken, from the left of the SPD, have called for major policy concessions from Merkel\u2019s Christian Democrats (CDU), and say they are prepared to pull the plug on the partnership. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/01\/angela-merkel-government-in-peril-leftwing-duo-elected-lead-spd\" target=\"_blank\">Merkel government in peril as leftwing duo take charge of SPD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New co-leaders of junior coalition partner want major concessions from Merkel\u2019s CDUThe future of Angela Merkel\u2019s government is in doubt after the election by her junior coalition partners, the Social Democrats (SPD), of a new leftwing leadership duo who have pledged to renegotiate the terms of the alliance.Norbert Walter-Borjans and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}