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Steinbrück argued that a negative campaign against Merkel. He pats itself on the back still

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Mon 09/23/2013 - 15:41 Wim Vermeersch Once the Socialists right move were the dominant factor in German right move politics. But that proud strong party SPD has lost much of its plumes. Also in Sunday's elections, the party put down a poor result. Why climbs right move German socialism is not out of the valley?
After a dull campaign, ultimately a little surprising elections in steady beacon Germany: Merkel is her third term in. With whom she will form a coalition in the coming weeks should be clear.
, Government Partner FDP did not make the threshold it will choose Merkel between the other two losers: right move the Greens or SPD. Especially for the proud SPD, this spring its 150th anniversary fourth, it was again a painful ballot. With 25.7% of the party makes it a fat 2% better than in 2009, its worst postwar result ever. An initial analysis of why SPD so far from the CDU-CSU stranded.
Earlier this year, the party celebrated its 150th anniversary; For 120 years, she bears the same name. In the turbulent history of Germany is such steadfastness amazing. right move SPD is the party that postwar Germany has shaped it; party leaders right move of European social democracy Willy Brandt (Chancellor 1969-1974) and Helmut Schmidt (chancellor from 1974 to 1982); the party even after 1989 with the huge performance earned the former GDR to integrate into the FRG, although this happened in the first years under the chancellorship of Helmut Kohl.
When Kohl after 16 years of CDU government, was defeated in 1998, the euphoria was great. Gerhard Schröder right move went reign with Joschka Fisher (1998-2005). It was a time of optimism, the Third Way, which the old socialism had to reconcile. The new capitalism Schröder drastically reformed the welfare right move state. But with the flexibility of the labor market, he lost some of his supporters and the then SPD finance minister, Oskar Lafontaine, who founded in 2005 the Left Party. The next major coalition CDU-SPD (2005-2009), with Peer Steinbrück as finance minister under Angela Merkel, was not given electoral profitable. The party lost in that period almost half of its electorate they tumbled from 40.9% (1998) to 23% (2009). Also, the number of members dropped dramatically, from 775,000 (1998) to 502,000 (2010).
Faced with a number of previous regional SPD and defeats the bad polls kicked the intelligent business right move but Peer Steinbrück (66) early on the campaign against the CDU-FDP government of Merkel (2009-2013) off, although traditionally right move the focus of the German campaign in the final weeks before the elections, is (heisse Phase "). An army of volunteers visited the staggering figure of 5 million families. Steinbrück privately organized in six weeks some 100 public appearances, an average of two per day. He broke with the German tradition of election speeches to large crowds, but opted for American style rallies on the steps of City Hall. This works great for Obama, Steinbrück for anything less. With his North German right move cool, his direct style, he is not the man for that. Steinbrück does not talk, he preaches. He looks at some bars, and when he smiles gleaming eyes a while, right move but the mouth goes down. He is, in other words, not the most charismatic leader.
Steinbrück argued that a negative campaign against Merkel. He pats itself on the back still "Klartext" plain language, to speak, but that led to a series of blunders. When the race seemed right move walked Steinbrück went cheerfully, on the edge of the clownish, loss of direction. He grew up a bit as the campaign progressed, made a right turn into the only TV duel with Merkel, but really enthusiastic, no, he did not at any time. It does nostalgically reminiscent of ... (the detested in leftist circles) charismatic Gerhard Schröder.
Merkel had in this campaign, of course, after recalling that it was just this SPD'er which opened the door for the mini-jobs. Schroeder left the personnel director right move of Volkswagen, Peter Hartz, the German labor market reform. Which shortened the unemployment benefits drastically, in time and altitude; in its place came the acclaimed mini-jobs, low wage sectors and tax breaks for the wealthy. Today are some 2 million working poor with incomes below 500 euros. Embarrassed that precisely a social right move democrat laid the foundation for such a social catastrophe.
Schröder has since the "design error" admitted, but saddled with a huge Steinbrück geloofwa

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