#SPAIN: Far-Left Podemos Party Faces Top-Level Power Struggle; Co-Founder Quits Parliament

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A rift at the top of Spain's far-left Podemos threatens to further erode the influence of the party that once terrorized the establishment. Leader Pablo Iglesias and co-founder Íñigo Errejon spent Podemos' fifth birthday earlier this month engaged in a power struggle, leading to Errejon giving up his seat in parliament Monday, The party - a key ally of the ruling Socialist Party - has descended into disarray before May's national election.

Pictured: Podemos Leader Pablo Iglesias, right, and co-founder Íñigo Errejón

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#GERMANY: SPD Party Leader Schulz Abandons Effort To Be Merkel's Foreign Min. After Party Opposition

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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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