Merkel meets new SPD leaders amid coalition tensions
By DW
13 December 2019 |
6:48 am
The new Social Democrat leaders Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans said after their election that the ruling coalition with Merkel's CDU party "cannot continue." The pair were then criticized by CDU leadership.
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