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Broken SPD election poster in Siegen
Photo: Rene Traut / imago images
It only takes a few minutes for Claudia Moll to get loud.
The SPD MP from Eschweiler sits in her Bundestag office and talks furiously about the crisis in her party.
"We lack the emotions," she complains.
"People miss the feeling, what does that mean: social democracy?"
If someone says that the classic worker no longer exists, she thinks it's nonsense.
"Of course it still exists, we just can't reach it anymore."
Moll, 51, worked at the cash register in the supermarket and was a geriatric nurse on shift work for almost 30 years.
In 2017 she moved into parliament and won her constituency directly.
Since then, she has seen the decline of the SPD seemingly unstoppable.
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SPD politician Claudia Moll
Photo: Steffen PröÃx dorf / imago images / foto2press
On Sunday a week ago there was the next low blow.
In the local elections in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), the SPD fell to its worst result in the state: 24.3 percent, a minus of seven percentage points.
The state chairman Sebastian Hartmann spoke of the fact that the trend had turned.
Because the SPD did even worse in the 2019 European elections.
Party leader Norbert Walter-Borjans agreed: The SPD had "crossed the valley", there was "a clear upward trend".
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