German SPD nominates Scholz as chancellor hopeful in bid to arrest slide
(WorldNews Europe)

Germany`s beleaguered Social Democratic Party (SPD) has fired the opening shot in the autumn 2021 federal election, nominating federal finance minister Olaf Scholz as its candidate to run for the chancellery. Monday`s announcement, 13 months before voters choose a new government and successor to Angela Merkel, was staged as a show of unity in the SPD, which governs as the junior partner in a coalition with Dr Merkel`s CDU. That the SPD has, for the first time since 1949, looked beyond its leader for a chancellor hopeful...