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Germany is on the edge of a radical shift to the Left

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Published September 19, 2021 12:00pm ET
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Germany is on the edge of a radical shift to the Left
Next Sunday, Germans will go to the polls to elect a new federal government. According to the latest polls, Germany’s most leftward coalition option, dubbed “Red-Red-Green,” is now very much viable. It would consist of the resurgent, center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), the rising center-left Greens, and the Left Party (the renamed Socialist Unity Party […]

Next Sunday, Germans will go to the polls to elect a new federal government.

According to the latest polls, Germany’s most leftward coalition option, dubbed “Red-Red-Green,” is now very much viable. It would consist of the resurgent, center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), the rising center-left Greens, and the Left Party (the renamed Socialist Unity Party of East Germany).

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