Merkel’s One-Time Ally Steinbrueck Forges Plan to Unseat Her
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German opposition candidate Peer Steinbrueck’s drive to become chancellor is going into reverse.
Steinbrueck’s Social Democratic Party gathers this weekend in the Bavarian town of Augsburg as the gap with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s bloc widens. The SPD’s answer is a platform that appeals to core Socialist values from reining in banks to taxing the rich and reducing social inequality it says has grown under Merkel. Delegates will vote on the platform on April 14.