{"id":20411,"date":"2010-06-17T15:40:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T15:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/germans_clamor_for_change_poll_finds\/"},"modified":"2010-06-17T15:40:40","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T15:40:40","slug":"germans_clamor_for_change_poll_finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20411","title":{"rendered":"Germans Clamor for Change, Poll Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half of Germans want a change in Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s center-right coalition government, with one out of five wanting her to resign and call new elections, the latest poll showed Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The findings in the poll conducted by Forsa for Stern weekly news magazine showed that a further 22% want back the grand coalition of conservative parties and the Social Democrats, which Ms. Merkel headed in the previous legislative term.<\/p>\n<p>Just 8% said the chancellor can continue governing as she has done since the coalition won the elections in September.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704198004575310591718880832.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\">Read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly half of Germans want a change in Chancellor Angela Merkel&#8217;s center-right coalition government, with one out of five wanting her to resign and call new elections, the latest poll showed Wednesday. The findings in the poll conducted by Forsa<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20411\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,50,460,149,591,200,478,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-european-sovereign-debt-crisis-of-2010","category-economy","category-euro","category-europe","category-germany","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}