{"id":275,"date":"2024-07-29T04:34:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T04:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/olaf-scholz-to-run-for-german-chancellor-again-in-2025-politico\/"},"modified":"2024-07-29T04:34:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T04:34:13","slug":"olaf-scholz-to-run-for-german-chancellor-again-in-2025-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/olaf-scholz-to-run-for-german-chancellor-again-in-2025-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"Olaf Scholz to run for German chancellor again in 2025 \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>That decision, however, seems out of touch against the backdrop of June\u2019s European Parliament election. Voters in Germany delivered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/eu-european-election-results-2024-german-coalition-olaf-scholz-social-democrats\/\">crushing blow<\/a> to the ruling coalition \u2014 made up of Scholz\u2019s SPD, the Greens, and the pro-business Free Democratic Party \u2014\u00a0handing the SPD its worst national vote result in more than a century.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s biggest opposition force \u2014 an alliance of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian sister party CSU \u2014 is currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/europe-poll-of-polls\/germany\/\">polling<\/a> in first place with around 31 percent, while the far-right Alternative for Germany is second with around 17 percent, leaving ruling coalition&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/olaf-scholz-run-german-chancellor-again-2025\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That decision, however, seems out of touch against the backdrop of June\u2019s European Parliament election. Voters in Germany delivered a crushing blow to the ruling coalition \u2014 made up of Scholz\u2019s SPD, the Greens, and the pro-business Free Democratic Party \u2014\u00a0handing the SPD its worst national vote result in more than a century. The country\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[56,46,57,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-germany","7":"tag-elections","8":"tag-germany","9":"tag-olaf-scholz","10":"tag-poll"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesofgerman.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}