Inspired by Jeremy Corbyn – and named after Kevin Keegan – Kevin Kühnert,28, wants German left to shun coalitionHe has been described as the babyface politician who holds Angela Merkel’s future in his hands. Some relate him as a kamikaze” social democrat; others the biggest political talent since Gerhard Schröder.
Kevin Kühnert, or a 28-year-old student from Berlin who heads the youth wing of the Social Democrats,is the most talked-approximately politician in Germany. whether he succeeds in his plan to scotch the idea of a Grand Coalition, the fragile construct agreed on final week by Merkel’s conservatives and the left-of-centre SPD, or he will simply be the man who turned German politics upside down.
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Source: theguardian.com