The German coalition ruling party heads the “Coalition skeptics” regime uncertain December 1 at 4:58

A skeptical candidate for maintaining the coalition was chosen as the new leader of the Social Democratic Party, which holds coalitions in the German Merkel administration. The future of the Merkel administration is becoming more uncertain as it shows the position of not canceling the coalition.

The Social Democratic Party, a left-wing centralist who plays a part of the coalition ruling party in the German Merkel administration, has resigned in June and has been selecting new leaders.

Candidates in pairs are also accepted for the presidential election, and as a result of the election vote by party members announced on the 30th, Mr. Esken and Mr. Walter Boljans who are skeptical about maintaining coalition with Merkel ’s political party The pair won 53% of the votes and won the pair of Scholz Finance Ministers who had appealed to maintain the coalition.

Esken is a member of Congress and Walter Boljans is a former finance minister in West North Rhine-Westphalia.

They will be officially appointed as party leaders at this week's party convention.

The Social Democratic Party has formed a coalition for 10 years under the Merkel administration, but there has been an increasing demand for the cancellation of the coalition because the party's unique color has not been demonstrated and the support rate has been sluggish.

The two people who won this time raised the minimum wage and expanded infrastructure investment, and showed the position that if they could not agree with the party of Prime Minister Merkel, they would not cancel the coalition, and the future of the Merkel administration was uncertain It is increasing.