Leader of Merkel’s SPD Coalition Ally Faces Pressure to Resign

After losses in the May European election that shrunk the SPD to Germany’s third-biggest party behind Merkel’s Christian Democrat-led block and the Greens, lawmakers from Hesse state said they won’t back their caucus chief in the surprise vote of confidence called by Nahles for Tuesday, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said. “I like Andrea, but we need a new solution,” the newspaper quoted Ulli Nissen, an SPD lawmaker from Frankfurt, as saying.

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