(VOVWORLD) - German Social Democrat leader (SPD) Martin Schulz stepped down on Tuesday and said the party’s committee had backed parliamentary floor leader Andrea Nahles as his successor.
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 German Social Democrat leader Martin Schulz
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Nahles still needs to be formally nominated by the party executive on Tuesday’s meeting. A vote will then take place at an extraordinary party congress on April 22.
The move comes ahead of a ballot of the SPD’s 464,000 members, who get the chance to veto a coalition deal agreed last week with German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives.