BERLIN: Germany's Social Democrats could end up deciding if the country faces snap elections, the leader of Angela Merkel's party said on Monday , after her junior coalition partner sank into chaos over the resignation of its leader.
"We are ready to keep this coalition going. How the SPD behaves is its decision," she told journalists following crisis talks within her centre-right party. "In my view what comes next is the end of the GroKo - everything else leads nowhere," he told Bild daily, using the German shortform for grand coalition.
A leading SPD centrist, Johannes Kahrs, pointed to a plan to push through a climate protection law before the next elections, saying that"the people can, should and will measure us by this".The alliance between Merkel's Christian Democrats and the SPD was fragile from the start. The SPD, Germany's oldest party, had initially planned to re-examine the alliance in the autumn - half-way through the four-year mandate.But with a free-fall in its ratings unending, the SPD's timetable may yet be accelerated.
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