Social Democratic Party of Germany

A crisis rocking German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's fractious three-party coalition was headed for a potential crunch point Wednesday, amid fears the government could collapse.

Discord over how to revive a flagging economy and carve up a tight budget has flared between Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) and his junior partners, the Greens and the Free Democrats (FDP).

Brandenburg's State Premier and SPD top candidate in the regional elections in Brandenburg, Dietmar Woidke (C) looks on next to AfD top candidate Hans-Christoph Berndt (R) and CDU top candidate Jan Redmann (L) during an interview at the studio of German public broadcaster ARD during the electoral evening at the State Parliament (Landtag) in Potsdam, in the eastern German state of Brandenburg, o

The Social Democrats (SPD) party of Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz narrowly won the election in the eastern state of Brandenburg on Sunday.

The wife of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the Minister of Education of the Brandenburg province, Britta Ernst (SPD), has resigned from that position.
So far, she has not given a reason for such a decision.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is backing Saturday's planned shutdown of the country's last three operating nuclear power plants, even though one of the smaller partners in his coalition government, the Free Democratic Party (FDP), is proposing to keep the reactors as an energy "reserve," reports DPA, quoted by BTA.

The country's ruling Social Democrats boast of their shift to directly electing their leader and of other 'democratic' changes - but a closer look reveals that most of the changes are fairly cosmetic.

Germany’s acting Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on March 8 that he would not be a member of the new government under conservative Chancellor Angela Merkel who will lead a coalition with his Social Democrats (SPD).

Social Democratic Party leader Martin Schulz announced his resignation, DPA reported. Shortly after, the party's leadership announced that it supported the chairman of the SPD parliamentary group Andrea Nahles for the post. Her candidacy will be voted on by party members on April 22.

The shock decision comes after senior members of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) pressured their leader in to waiving the post of foreign minister. 

It comes after Angela Merkel's conservatives and the SPD agreed to form a coalition government on Wednesday.

Olaf Scholz, a Social Democrat (SPD) who is mayor of Hamburg, is set to become German Finance Minister in a new coalition government with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, German news agency DPA reported on Wednesday.