The chancellor has stated that his Social Democratic Party was “united’ and “determined” to enter the next election “together”
Germany’s chancellor, Olaf Scholz, has announced his plans to run for the government’s head post again in 2025. He also dismissed poor poll results for his party as merely a “stimulus” to do better, as he talked to journalists at a two-hour conference in Berlin before his summer vacation.
Scholz’s Social Democratic Party (SPD) suffered its worst nationwide election result at the European Parliament elections in early June, where it got just under 14% of the votes. The party’s rating also stands at around 14%, according to ARD Deutschlandtrend survey results published in early July.
According to the chancellor, his party was still “determined to go into the next federal election campaign together and to win.” He also admitted that the poll results were “not good” but stated that his party would…