German frontrunner party rules out coalition with Scholz

A co-leader of the conservative bloc says teaming up with the Social Democrats would be impossible with the current chancellor

The leader of Bavaria’s Christian Social Union (CSU), Markus Soder, has said the German conservatives would only enter into a coalition with the Social Democratic Party (SPD) if Olaf Scholz were to step down as chancellor. Soder, whose CSU together with the larger Christian Democratic Union (CDU) traditionally form a united front in German politics...