Bumps Ahead For Merkel After Ally Loses Shock Vote
December 1, 2019
Angela Merkel faces a rocky political road ahead as she battles to hang on until 2021 as German chancellor, after her junior coalition partner SPD elected a left-leaning leadership duo.
Rank and file Social Democrats late Saturday delivered a humiliating blow to Finance Minister Olaf Scholz’s run for co-chair of his centre-left party, picking instead two relative unknowns as their new leaders.