The Globalist

As the long-time German chancellor completes her last term in office, it isn’t just her own center-right party that is struggling at the polls.

If Germany’s CDU had used an executive search firm to find a successor for Angela Merkel as Chancellor, it would have probably come up with an intriguing proposition.

Germany’s long-term leading government party faces an uncertain political future.

The AfD’s Thuringia maneuver caught Germany’s right-of-center parties flat-footed. The odds of a leftist coalition at the federal level in 2021 are rising.

It looks like CDU/CSU and SPD agreeing to stay together throughout 2020. But the risk that the SPD throws in the towel continues to loom large.

Germany’s center-left SPD will be led in the future by a little-known left-wing duo that is highly critical of the SPD’s role in Angela Merkel’s government.

Germany’s parties on the left are only a few percentage points short of a potential majority.

Quirky SPD race could decide Angela Merkel’s fate.

Buoyed by its recent election success, could Germany’s Green Party claim the chancellorship when Merkel leaves office?

A slew of policy proposals by the SPD highlight the risk of an end of Germany’s grand coalition before the next election in 2021.