Germany's SPD to pick leader to decide fate of Merkel coalition


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  • Wednesday, 23 Oct 2019

FILE PHOTO: German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the weekly cabinet meeting in Berlin, Germany, October 16, 2019. REUTERS/Michele Tantussi/File Photo

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) will on Saturday announce the result of a ballot for a new leader to guide them out of months of turmoil and, in effect, decide whether to ditch their unloved coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives.

Germany's oldest party is hovering in the polls just above the all-time lows it hit in June after its worst-ever performance in a European election prompted its leader to quit.

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