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FILE - In this Feb. 14, 2018 photo, Kevin Kuehnert, leader of Social Democratic Party's, SPD, youth organization JUSOS poses for a portrait after an interview with the Associated Press at the party's headquarters in Berlin. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, file)

A top official with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's party quits, a year before the national election

A top official with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s party has announced his resignation, a year ahead of an election in which the center-left Social Democrats face an uphill struggle

By AP News
Published - Oct 07, 2024, 08:35 AM ET
Last Updated - Dec 16, 2024, 06:35 PM EST

BERLIN (AP) — A top official with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's party announced his resignation on Monday, citing health problems, a year before an election in which the center-left Social Democrats face an uphill struggle,

Kevin Kühnert, 35, has been the Social Democrats' general secretary — the party official responsible for day-to-day political strategy — since late 2021.

Scholz led the party to a narrow win in that year's national election. But its poll ratings have dropped sharply since then as the chancellor's coalition with the environmentalist Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats has developed a reputation for constant infighting.

Kühnert is a former head of the party's youth organization and was a leader of an unsuccessful campaign in early 2018 against the Social Democrats joining conservative then Chancellor Angela Merkel's final coalition government.

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