{"id":61178,"date":"2026-09-21T03:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/why-merz-is-staying-on-as-german-chancellor-after-election-disaster\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T03:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T03:24:19","slug":"why-merz-is-staying-on-as-german-chancellor-after-election-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/why-merz-is-staying-on-as-german-chancellor-after-election-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Merz is staying on as German chancellor after election &#039;disaster&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/>Berlin correspondent Jess Parker explains why German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has vowed to stay on despite exit polls in two local elections suggesting damaging defeats for his centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/videos\/cm9dw3ejd2w9o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berlin correspondent Jess Parker explains why German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has vowed to stay on despite exit polls in two local elections suggesting damaging defeats for his centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[16812,85,149,657,16811,11237],"class_list":["post-61178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-039disaster039","tag-chancellor","tag-election","tag-german","tag-merz","tag-staying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61180,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61178\/revisions\/61180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}