FILE PHOTO: Saskia Esken and Norbert Walter-Borjans gesture after being announced by Rhineland-Palatinate State Premier Malu Dreyer as winners of a Social Democratic Party members' ballot for leadership in Berlin, Germany, November 30, 2019. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/File Photo
BERLIN (Reuters) - Leaders of Germany's Social Democrats are leaning away from proposing the party quit Chancellor Angela Merkel's government as they work on a motion to put to delegates at a party congress, party sources said.
Norbert Walter-Borjans and Saskia Esken, leftist critics of the coalition with Merkel's conservatives, won a vote for leadership of the SPD on Saturday, putting Europe's largest economy at a political crossroads.
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