{"id":323541,"date":"2017-08-28T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T08:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/germany-spd-chancellor-candidate-schulz-attacks-merkel-from-the-right\/"},"modified":"2017-08-28T09:27:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T08:27:00","slug":"germany-spd-chancellor-candidate-schulz-attacks-merkel-from-the-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/germany-spd-chancellor-candidate-schulz-attacks-merkel-from-the-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany: SPD chancellor candidate Schulz attacks Merkel from the right"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Germany: SPD chancellor candidate Schulz attacks Merkel from the right<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Johannes Stern<br \/>\n    <br \/>28 August 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>The more the Social Democratic Party (SPD) declines in the polls\u2014the party is running four weeks prior to the federal election at 22 percent, far behind Angela Merkel\u2019s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) at 39 percent\u2014the more it lashes out aggressively in its election campaign. In ZDF\u2019s summer television interview on Sunday evening, SPD Chancellor candidate Martin Schulz attacked the German Chancellor from the right on foreign and domestic policy issues.<\/p>\n<p>Schulz used the first four minutes of the 18-minute interview, which was broadcast on primetime television, to furiously attack Turkey. The Turkish President was breaking \u201call international regulations\u201d and was intervening \u201cin a drastic manner into the election campaign of another country.\u201d He then threatened, \u201cThis has nothing to do with Mr. Erdogan \u2026 it is a violation of all regulations. \u2026 German politicians must respond to this unacceptable way of behaving by Mr. Erdogan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As German chancellor, he would \u201cconsider very tough measures against Turkey.\u201d This included sanctions and an end to negotiations about expanding the customs union with Turkey. One could \u201cnot continue to accept that innocent citizens of our country rot in the prisons of an arbitrary leadership in Turkey\u201d and that the Turkish president \u201cgives us the run-around.\u201d One would \u201chave to get used to\u201d the fact that Schulz \u201chas principles\u201d and would, if necessary, resort to \u201ctough measures.\u201d He added that he did not care if this meant the SPD would lose votes among voters of Turkish origin in the election.<\/p>\n<p>Schulz\u2019s hysterical threats against the Muslim-majority Turkey and almost 1.5 million Turkish citizens&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/08\/28\/schu-a28.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Germany: SPD chancellor candidate Schulz attacks Merkel from the right By Johannes Stern 28 August 2017 The more the Social Democratic Party (SPD) declines in the polls\u2014the party is running four weeks prior to the federal election at 22 percent, far behind Angela Merkel\u2019s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) at 39 percent\u2014the more it lashes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-323541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}