{"id":106098,"date":"2026-09-20T04:18:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T20:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=106098"},"modified":"2026-09-20T04:18:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T20:18:48","slug":"merz-under-pressure-as-two-more-german-states-go-to-the-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=106098","title":{"rendered":"Merz under pressure as two more German states go to the polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN, Sept 20 &#8211; German voters go to the polls on Sunday in two state elections that look likely to heap more pressure on struggling Chancellor Friedrich\u00a0Merz, whose future has been in the balance since the far right&#8217;s triumph in another regional vote this month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/world\/europe\/merz-under-pressure-as-two-more-german-states-go-to-the-polls\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN, Sept 20 &#8211; German voters go to the polls on Sunday in two state elections that look likely to heap more pressure on struggling Chancellor Friedrich\u00a0Merz, whose future has been in the balance since the far right&#8217;s triumph in another regional vote this month. 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-106098","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\/106098","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=106098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}