{"id":266540,"date":"2024-06-10T10:39:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-10T02:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=266540"},"modified":"2024-06-10T12:26:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T04:26:36","slug":"german-ruling-parties-suffer-heavy-losses-to-right-wing-in-european-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=266540","title":{"rendered":"German Ruling Parties Suffer Heavy Losses To Right Wing In European Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BERLIN, Jun 10 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; Parties of the current German coalition government, suffered heavy losses in the 2024 European elections, with Chancellor Olaf Scholz&#8217;s Social Democratic Party (SPD), garnering its worst result in history, in nationwide elections, early results showed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SPD obtained only 13.9 percent of the vote, placing third behind the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD). The Greens, also a member of the federal government, took a heavy blow with 11.9 percent of votes, a dramatic drop from a record result of 20.5 percent in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The AfD, which had seen rising support in polls since last year, saw a substantial increase in yesterday&#8217;s elections, ranking second with 15.9 percent. Voter dissatisfaction with the current government coalition has been a major cause for the rise of the AfD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The conservative parties, Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Christian Social Union (CSU) garnered 30.2 percent of the votes, a successful result compared with the federal election in 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The strong showing of the CDU\/CSU is considered a boost for European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, in seeking a re-election.&#8211; NNN-XINHUA &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN, Jun 10 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8211; Parties of the current German coalition government, suffered heavy losses in the 2024 European elections, with Chancellor Olaf Scholz&#8217;s Social Democratic Party (SPD), garnering its worst result in history, in nationwide elections, early results showed. The SPD obtained only 13.9 percent of the vote, placing third behind the right-wing Alternative [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":266563,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266540"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266561,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266540\/revisions\/266561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/266563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}