Berlin - The leadership of Germany's Social Democrats, who suffered a stinging election setback a week ago, nominated a 50-year-old outgoing minister, Sigmar Gabriel, as new party leader on Monday, sources said. The choice was made behind closed doors at a Berlin meeting of the party's innermost leadership and will be put to a national conference in Dresden next month, where adoption of leadership decisions is usually a certainty.
The sources told the German Press Agency
