The German Chancellor looks set to call a second
election after a poor performance at the polls and the collapse of subsequent coalition talks.
Not exact matches
This year's
poor performance - only six House seats gained, two Senate seats added, and the White House lost - caused a revolt among House Democrats
after the
election.
After losing the 1959 general
election, Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell came to believe that public opposition to nationalisation had led to the party's
poor performance and announced that he proposed to amend Clause IV.
The first serious attempt to change course came in May 2014,
after Labour's
poor performance in the European parliamentary
elections.
It follows a disappointing year for the MP,
after the Conservatives»
poor performance in June's
election led to the government's grammar school reforms being shelved.