{"id":406979,"date":"2021-09-27T06:16:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T06:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=406979"},"modified":"2021-09-27T06:16:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T06:16:14","slug":"olaf-scholz-german-centre-left-narrowly-wins-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/olaf-scholz-german-centre-left-narrowly-wins-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Olaf Scholz German centre-left narrowly wins election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Germany&#8217;s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) have narrowly won the country&#8217;s federal elections, beating the party of outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to preliminary results.<\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The SPD secured 25.7% of the vote, while the ruling conservative CDU\/CSU bloc gained 24.1%.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The Greens achieved the best result in their party&#8217;s history, coming in third with 14.8% of the ballot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">A coalition must now be created to form a government<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">SPD leader Olaf Scholz earlier said his party had a clear mandate to rule, as his party started to edge into the lead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Exit polls predicted a dead heat, but this election has been unpredictable from the start, and the result was never going to be the end of the story. For one thing, the outgoing chancellor is going nowhere until the coalition is formed &#8211; and that may have to wait until Christmas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"piano-inline1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ssrcss-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i86\" data-component=\"text-block\">\n<div class=\"ssrcss-18snukc-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi1\">\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The successor&#8217;s task is to lead Europe&#8217;s foremost economy over the next four years, with climate change at the top of voters&#8217; agenda<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany&#8217;s centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) have narrowly won the country&#8217;s federal elections, beating the party of outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel, according to preliminary results. The SPD secured 25.7% of the vote, while the ruling conservative CDU\/CSU bloc gained 24.1%. The Greens achieved the best result in their party&#8217;s history, coming in third with 14.8% of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":406983,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-406979","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406984,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406979\/revisions\/406984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}