{"id":135506,"date":"2024-11-20T07:40:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T05:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/scholz-under-pressure-to-stand-aside-for-pistorius-before-german-election\/"},"modified":"2024-11-20T07:40:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T05:40:04","slug":"scholz-under-pressure-to-stand-aside-for-pistorius-before-german-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/scholz-under-pressure-to-stand-aside-for-pistorius-before-german-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholz under pressure to stand aside for Pistorius before German election"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135506\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>20Germany\u2019s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, is under mounting pressure to step aside as his party\u2019s candidate for the job in February\u2019s snap election in favour of his defence minister, Boris Pistorius, the most popular politician in the country. The top brass of the Social Democratic party (SPD) are planning crisis talks on their choice of chancellor candidate for the 23 February general election on Tuesday evening while Scholz is flying home from the G20 summit in Brazil, local media reported.<\/p>\n<p>In a move drawing comparisons to Joe Biden\u2019s decision to step aside for Kamala Harris as the Democratic party candidate in the US election, speculation is rife that the SPD could switch horses at roughly the same moment in the campaign, with about 100 days left. German federal elections are contested between political parties competing for seats in the Bundestag, but it is convention for the larger parties to also nominate a chancellor candidate to lead the government.<\/p>\n<p>Scholz led a fractious three-way coalition from 2021 until it imploded this month after he fired his pro-business finance minister Christian Lindner. He has stated he is seeking a second term at the helm of the EU\u2019s top economic power. But even his swift move to end the bitter infighting that has hobbled efforts to revive an ailing economy and address woes in key industries such as car manufacturing has failed to revive his political fortunes.<\/p>\n<p>A poll published on Tuesday showed Scholz slipping into last place among Germany\u2019s top 20 politicians in terms of support, with the genial, politically deft Pistorius consistently holding on to the lead. After weeks of grumbling about Scholz\u2019s dim prospects for leading his party to victory against the centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) and their candidate, the millionaire former executive Friedrich Merz, prominent Social Democrats calling for a change on the ticket have abandoned their discretion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe resistance to \u2018carry on\u2019 is increasing every day among the SPD\u2019s base,\u201d the former party leader and foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel posted on X, echoing sentiments from a handful of prominent Social Democrat MPs. \u201cAnd the SPD\u2019s leadership can only come up with pacification efforts and fealty. Now is the time for courageous political leadership. If we stay the course, the SPD will fall below 15%!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/19\/olaf-scholz-boris-pistorius-germany-election-spd\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/19\/olaf-scholz-boris-pistorius-germany-election-spd\">The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/csr-news-en\/scholz-under-pressure-to-stand-aside-for-pistorius-before-german-election\/\">Scholz under pressure to stand aside for Pistorius before German election<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[555,16990,2481],"class_list":["post-135506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-csr-news-en","tag-pistorius","tag-scholz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}