SPD 'has no plan' if members reject Merkel coalition deal

GERMANY - The future leader of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) has said the party has “no plan B” if members reject a coalition deal with Angela Merkel’s conservatives this week. “I am convinced we will get a majority,” Andrea Nahles, who was endorsed last week to take over the SPD, told Der Spiegel magazine in comments published on Sunday. “I don’t have a Plan B.”

The SPD’s 464,000 members will begin to vote on Tuesday on whether the center-left party should form a coalition government with Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and her Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU). Party leaders reached a deal last week to renew a 'grand coalition', four months after Germany’s federal election last September. Now SPD party members must decide whether to accept the deal by March 4.

The comments come as a poll shows that support for the SPD, Germany’s second largest party, has reached an all time low. The survey, conducted by Infratest dimap, which surveyed 1,001 people, showed that support for the party fell to just 16 per cent, only one percentage point ahead of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, between 13-15 of February.

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