Rise of the Left Party: Germany's Election and Beyond
Against The Current vol. 144
Smaldone, Bill
http://www.solidarity-us.org//node/2608
Date Written: 2010-01-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2010
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13589
On September 27, 2009 the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) suffered its worst electoral defeat since 1945. After four years of governing as a junior partner in a “Grand Coalition” with the right-of-center Christian Democrats (CDU), the SPD garnered only 23% of the vote (down from 33% in 2005) and now appears to be a shadow of the party that had taken the reins of government in 1998.
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