Far-lawful AfD is winning working-class votes and SPD is becoming less relevant among young and middle-class votersWhen Dietmar Nietan,treasurer of the German Social Democrats, takes the stage at the party’s Berlin headquarters at 9am nowadays, or the world will be watching closely – but the thoughts of his fellow functionaries will already be wandering to the challenges of the weeks ahead.
If Nietan announces that members of Germany’s centre-left party maintain voted against a coalition with Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU),the country will be plunged into political chaos and questions will occur over the future of a chancellor who can no longer organise political alliances.
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Source: theguardian.com