Merkel Rival Wins His Party’s Nomination With 100 Percent of Vote
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On Sunday, Martin Schulz was anointed leader of the Social Democrats, Europe’s oldest
democratic party, with 100 percent of the valid votes cast at a special convention.
More than 13,000 people have joined the Social Democrats in recent weeks — a fact celebrated by party
leaders even though 2016 membership, at around 438,000, was 130,000 less than a decade earlier.
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that it is "time for Schulz." His rise has apparently blunted the advances of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, which now runs around 9 to 10 percent in polls.
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The result places Mr. Schulz, 61, a former president of the European Parliament, in pole position to unseat the world’s most powerful woman,
Chancellor Angela Merkel, when the two face off on Sept. 24 in the national election, in which Ms. Merkel is seeking a fourth term.
Anyone who tries to curb the freedom of the news media, Mr. Schulz emphasized, "is laying an ax on the roots of democracy, whether he
is the president of the United States or a protester at a rally of Pegida," the anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant movement in Germany.