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| The leader of Angela Merkel’s junior coalition partner, the SPD, has announced she is resigning, raising the spectre that Germany’s embattled government could collapse. | |
| Andrea Nahles said in a statement: “The discussions in the parliamentary group and the broad feedback from the party showed me that the support necessary for the exercise of my offices is no longer there.” | |
| The coalition between Merkel’s CDU party and the SPD has been fragile from the start. The SPD initially sought to go into opposition after being beaten in the 2017 election, but it was reluctantly coaxed into renewing a partnership with Merkel, even as many in the party remained wary of continuing to govern in her shadow. | |
| Since then, the SPD’s popularity has been in freefall, with the latest poll showing its support at 12%, while backing for the opposition Greens has surged. In last week’s European elections the party got the worst result in its history. | |
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