Germany's oldest political party is tired.
Born from the revolution of 1848, the SPD governed during the Weimar Republic, survived Nazism despite the persecutions of which it was the victim and experienced its heyday in the 1970s. Today, the social-democratic formation of the great Chancellor Willy Brandt has become a shadow of herself, threatened with relegation to the same rank as the marginalized of national politics, the liberals of the FDP and the pariahs of the AfD, which she exceeds by only 4 points in the voting intentions (15%).
Shunned by its supporters, the SPD can no longer claim to play in the big leagues, today occupied in the polls by the eternal CDU and the new environmentalists.
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Like the other European social democratic parties, its electorate built over time has dissolved: part of the working class has migrated to the extreme right (AfD) and the radical left (Die Linke).
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