The woman in pole position to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor warned her jun...
BERLIN - The woman in pole position to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor warned her junior coalition partners against blocking the appointment of a German to head the European Commission, saying this would put their coalition under “maximum strain”.
In Sunday’s summer interview with ZDF television, Kramp-Karrenbauer said the SPD would be ill-advised to vote in the European Parliament against appointing Ursula von der Leyen as head of the European Commission. While Von der Leyen, a close ally of Merkel, is likely to win the confirmation vote in the European Parliament, opposition from the SPD, which is upset at the abandonment of the “Spitzenkandidat” process, could yet cost her the job.
But in Germany, the SPD, which is plumbing new post-war depths in polls as a result of its decision, deeply unpopular with supporters, to prop up Merkel’s government, is divided over whether to stay in the grand coalition for another two years.
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