{"id":63790,"date":"2019-05-27T11:29:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T10:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=63790"},"modified":"2019-05-27T11:29:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T10:29:52","slug":"greens-rise-merkels-coalition-sink-in-euro-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/greens-rise-merkels-coalition-sink-in-euro-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens rise, Merkel\u2019s coalition sink in Euro elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s conservative-left coalition government suffered huge losses in Sunday\u2019s elections at the European Parliament, while the environmentalist and pro- immigration Green Party\u2019s votes was at record high.<\/h2>\n<p>Merkel\u2019s Christian Democratic bloc (CDU\/CSU) scored only 28.9 % of the vote, marking the worst result since the first European Parliament elections in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>The CDU\/CSU\u2019s coalition government the Social Democrat Party (SPD) also recorded its worst result, gaining just 15.8%.<\/p>\n<p>Germany\u2019s opposition Green Party managed to record the best election result in their history, winning 20.5 %, according to the preliminary election results.<\/p>\n<p>The far-right Islamophobic Alternative for Germany (AfD) won 11% of votes, up from 7.1% in the last election.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the elections, many polls predicted the AfD on 12 percent or above.<\/p>\n<p>While the party performed below its expectations nationwide, it managed to become the strongest party in the eastern states of Brandenburg and Saxony.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s conservative-left coalition government suffered huge losses in Sunday\u2019s elections at the European Parliament, while the environmentalist and pro- immigration Green Party\u2019s votes was at record high. Merkel\u2019s Christian Democratic bloc (CDU\/CSU) scored only 28.9 % of the vote, marking the worst result since the first European Parliament elections in 1979. The CDU\/CSU\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":63791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,17,118,103,101],"tags":[4307,9343,703,15557],"class_list":["post-63790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-europe","category-hot","category-only-on-nationalturk","category-politics","tag-angela-merkel","tag-elections","tag-germany","tag-greens-germany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}