German minister quits after ‘indecent’ attacks intensify during bereavement
- Germany’s labour minister and co-leader of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), Bärbel Bas, has quit both posts, citing the death of her stepdaughter and subsequent political attacks against her, in a stinging blow to the fragile coalition government.
- “After my stepdaughter’s death, I realised that I need time to come to terms with my grief,” Bas said in a statement posted on Facebook, without giving further details.
- Explaining her departure from frontline politics, Bas explicitly blamed public broadsides against her as she grappled with the family tragedy, “unfortunately also from among th
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- Germany’s labour minister and co-leader of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD), Bärbel Bas, has quit both posts, citing the death of her stepdaughter and subsequent political attacks against her, in a stinging blow to the fragile coalition government.
- “After my stepdaughter’s death, I realised that I need time to come to terms with my grief,” Bas said in a statement posted on Facebook, without giving further details.
- Explaining her departure from frontline politics, Bas explicitly blamed public broadsides against her as she grappled with the family tragedy, “unfortunately also from among th
Sources: Guardian