Germany's embattled center-left leader Martin Schulz said Friday he would abandon a bid to become foreign minister in a new coalition government with Chancellor Angela Merkel, after massive resistance from his own party. "I hereby renounce joining the federal government and at the same time implore that this should be an end to debates about personalities" within the Social Democratic Party, Schulz said in a statement. "My own personal ambitions must be placed behind the interests of the party."
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