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BERLIN (Reuters) - The leadership of Germany’s Social Democrats, under pressure from a restive membership over flagging polls and disastrous regional election showings, did not discuss quitting the national coalition at a Monday meeting, the party’s leader said.

Asked at a news conference after a meeting of the party’s executive committee whether leaders had discussed leaving their coalition with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives, leader Andrea Nahles said: “No.”