{"id":332880,"date":"2021-10-01T08:54:05","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T08:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=215618"},"modified":"2021-10-01T08:54:05","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T08:54:05","slug":"german-elections-a-rough-loss-and-a-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/10\/01\/german-elections-a-rough-loss-and-a-triumph\/","title":{"rendered":"German Elections: a Rough Loss and a Triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germany\u2019s long election campaign, full of ups and downs, marked the end of 16 more or less placid years with Angela Merkel, 67, and her Christian double party, known as the \u201cUnion\u201d (its Bavarian component stays somewhat separate). Until now it had joined up with the Social Democrats (SPD) as increasingly uncomfortable junior partners. But  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/01\/german-elections-a-rough-loss-and-a-triumph\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/01\/german-elections-a-rough-loss-and-a-triumph\/\">German Elections: a Rough Loss and a Triumph<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/01\/german-elections-a-rough-loss-and-a-triumph\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany\u2019s long election campaign, full of ups and downs, marked the end of 16 more or less placid years with Angela Merkel, 67, and her Christian double party, known as the \u201cUnion\u201d (its Bavarian component stays somewhat separate). Until now it had join&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1222,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1222"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333365,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332880\/revisions\/333365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}