German SPD Seen by Merkel Party Leader Turning to Left
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A leader of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party said the opposition Social Democrats, who are slumping in the polls, may break their word and team up with the former East German communists in a bid to regain power.
“If it comes to a crunch, there are strong forces in the SPD that would want to go this way,” Saarland state Prime Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, a member of the executive committee of Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, said in an interview in Saarbruecken.