{"id":66858,"date":"2018-11-12T14:41:01","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T13:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/11\/12\/angela-merkels-rival-horst-seehofer-to-quit-as-csu-party-leader\/"},"modified":"2018-11-12T14:41:01","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T13:41:01","slug":"angela-merkels-rival-horst-seehofer-to-quit-as-csu-party-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=66858","title":{"rendered":"Angela Merkel&#039;s rival Horst Seehofer to quit as CSU party leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bavarian politician was under pressure after party\u2019s poor showing in regional electionsHorst Seehofer, a longtime bitter rival of Angela Merkel, has confirmed he will step down as leader of the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) in the latest in a series of high-profile resignations to shake German politics.The move leaves both of Germany\u2019s traditional conservative camps simultaneously searching for new leadership. It comes a fortnight after Merkel heralded a new era in German politics when she said she would not seek re-election as the head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/nov\/12\/horst-seehofer-quit-bavarian-csu-party-leader-angela-merkel-rival\" target=\"_blank\">Angela Merkel&#039;s rival Horst Seehofer to quit as CSU party leader<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bavarian politician was under pressure after party\u2019s poor showing in regional electionsHorst Seehofer, a longtime bitter rival of Angela Merkel, has confirmed he will step down as leader of the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) in the latest in a series of high-profile resignations to shake German politics.The move leaves [&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-66858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66858","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=66858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}