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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 434

German Social Democrats

Bjöern Höecke, top candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, speaks at an election campaign rally in Suhl, Germany, August 13, 2024. (AP Photo/ Markus Schreiber)
September 1, 2024, 11:48 pm
Far-right German AfD party set to win first state elections
Projections show Alternative for Germany party winning in Thuringia and coming in close second in Saxony, as immigration and German support of Ukraine dominate agenda
By Geir Moulson
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, July 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn,file)
July 10, 2022, 11:55 am
Women given date-rape drug at event organized by German chancellor’s party
Nine women file complaints after having no memory of the party the next day; ‘It was an internal event. You could only get in with an invitation,’ SPD spokesperson says
By AFP
People place their ballots in a ballot box at a polling station in Essen, Germany, May 15, 2022. (Fabian Strauch/ dpa via AP)
May 15, 2022, 11:21 pm
Heavy defeat for Scholz’s SDP as conservatives win key German state election
Christian Democrats take over 37% of the vote in North Rhine-Westphalia; drubbing comes amid criticism of chancellor’s stance on war in Ukraine and tackling of pandemic fallout
By AP
Lawmakers applaud outgoing German Chancellor Angela Merkel, center on top, in the German Parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Stefanie Loos)
December 8, 2021, 12:29 pm
Ovation for Merkel as Scholz voted in as Germany’s leader, ending her 16-year tenure
Former vice chancellor heads a three-party coalition being sworn in during one of Germany’s worst moments in the COVID-19 pandemic
By Geir Moulson
Olaf Scholz, Finance Minister and SPD candidate for Chancellor, waves to his supporters after German parliament election at the Social Democratic Party, SPD, headquarters in Berlin, September 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
November 24, 2021, 7:17 pm
German center-left parties agree to form government, ending Merkel era
3 German parties reach deal to form new coalition headed by Social Democrats leader Olaf Scholz, the outgoing chancellor’s finance minister since 2018
By Frank Jordans and Geir Moulson
A leftist demonstrator holds a placard featuring a portrait of communist revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg during a march to the Monument for the Socialists at Berlin's Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery where Luxemburg is buried, on January 13, 2019. (John Macdougall/AFP)
January 13, 2019, 2:37 pm
Gloomy German left remembers murder of Rosa Luxemburg
The Jewish-born communist activist, killed in 1919 amid social and political unrest following WWI, has become a ‘pop icon’ for a divided German opposition
By Mathieu FOULKES
Supporters of the governing Christian Social Union, CSU, react after the first exit polls for the Bavarian state election in Munich, southern Germany, October 14, 2018. (Michel Kappeler/ dpa via AP)
October 14, 2018, 11:53 pm
Merkel’s Bavarian allies suffer historic election losses
Far-right Alternative for Germany wins 11 percent of state vote and enters 15th of Germany’s 16 state assemblies
By Ralf ISERMANN and Frank Zeller
German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a joint press conference as part of a meeting with Slovenia's Prime Minister Marjan Sarec at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, October 12, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
October 14, 2018, 11:08 am
Merkel allies face threat of election debacle as far-right rises in Bavaria
Christian Social Union, which has ruled southern state since 1960s, could lose its absolute majority in Sunday’s vote after sharp fall in polls to AfD over Muslim immigration
By Frank Zeller
This file photo taken on February 27, 2018, shows German Chancellor Angela Merkel during a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin. (AFP Photo/Tobias Schwarz)
March 14, 2018, 12:59 pm
Angela Merkel elected for 4th term as German chancellor
After an unprecedented 171-day period of coalition wrangling, latest ‘grand coalition’ faces a fractured EU and potential trade war with the US
By Geir Moulson
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