{"id":6287,"date":"2021-10-08T19:29:28","date_gmt":"2021-10-08T19:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6287"},"modified":"2021-10-08T19:29:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-08T19:29:28","slug":"germanys-sort-of-change-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=6287","title":{"rendered":"Germany\u2019s (sort of) change elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;German election officials&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/german-election-2021-live-updates\/a-59312264\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">released results for the parliamentary elections<\/a>, putting the Social Democrats (SPD) ahead with 25.7 percent of the vote. They narrowly beat the conservatives Merkel had helmed for almost two decades, who won 24.1 percent.&#8221;<br>&#8230;<br>&#8220;The SPD\u2019s slim victory showed a vote for change \u2014 of sorts. For the first time in 16 years, a center-left party will have the most seats in the Bundestag, or German parliament.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/9\/27\/22695912\/germany-election-results-olaf-scholz-spd-merkel-cdu-greens\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/2021\/9\/27\/22695912\/germany-election-results-olaf-scholz-spd-merkel-cdu-greens<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;German election officials released results for the parliamentary elections, putting the Social Democrats (SPD) ahead with 25.7 percent of the vote. They narrowly beat the conservatives Merkel had helmed for almost two decades, who won 24.1 percent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The SPD\u2019s slim victory showed a vote for change \u2014 of sorts. For the first time in 16 years, a center-left party will have the most seats in the Bundestag, or German parliament.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[198,727,479],"class_list":["post-6287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-elections","tag-germany","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6288,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6287\/revisions\/6288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}