{"id":101718,"date":"2026-03-22T17:11:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=101718"},"modified":"2026-03-22T17:11:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T09:11:32","slug":"german-chancellor-merzs-conservatives-lead-in-state-election-projection-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=101718","title":{"rendered":"German Chancellor Merz&#8217;s conservatives lead in state election, projection shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN, March 22 &#8211; German Chancellor Friedrich Merz&#8217;s conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) took the lead in an election in the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate on Sunday, ahead of their Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners who faced a &#8220;bitter&#8221; defeat after ruling the state for 35 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/world\/europe\/german-chancellor-merzs-conservatives-lead-in-state-election-forecast-shows\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN, March 22 &#8211; German Chancellor Friedrich Merz&#8217;s conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) took the lead in an election in the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate on Sunday, ahead of their Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners who faced a &#8220;bitter&#8221; defeat after ruling the state for 35 years. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-101718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worldnews","tag-yahoonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}