German SPD leader quits
Monday, 3 June 2019
BERLIN, June 02, (Reuters): Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) chief Andrea Nahles said she would resign on Sunday as well giving up her position as head of its parliamentary group, saying she did not have the support she needed to lead it.
The resignation casts fresh doubt over the durability of Germany's ruling coalition, which came close to falling apart last year. The country's mainstream Christian Democrats and Social Democrats suffered heavy defeats in last week's European elections.
Germany's Greens have overtaken Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives to become the most popular party in Germany, an opinion poll on Saturday showed, with the SPD support hitting an all-time low.