Germany s ruling conservative union was gaining voters favour and was clearly ahead of the second-placed Greens, according to a Politbarometer survey published by the public broadcaster ZDF.After a historical low in polls, the Christian .
BERLIN, May 20 (Xinhua) Germany s top three candidates vying to succeed Angela Merkel as chancellor in the September federal elections held their first televised debate hosted by the public broadcaster WDR on Thursday.
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Jeremy Corbyn and the collapse of Britain’s Labour Party
In the aftermath of Labour’s May 6 “Super Thursday” electoral debacle, efforts are being made to rehabilitate Jeremy Corbyn as an alternative to the disastrous right-wing lurch of the party under Sir Keir Starmer.
Britain s Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech, during the party s online conference in October 2020 (Stefan Rousseau/Pool Photo via AP)
Labour lost the Hartlepool by-election to the Conservatives and suffered its worst performance in local council elections since 1935, with Starmer held in popular contempt for his colluding with Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s government during the pandemic a policy he famously described as “constructive criticism”. In response Corbyn, his former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, and others in his inner circle are portraying themselves as saviours who Starmer must now work with to get Labour back on track.
As Merkel era ends, German politics in flux
Posted : 2021-05-04 17:05 By Andrew Hammond
With Angela Merkel in her final weeks of power, the German post-war political landscape was in a wider, historic ferment last week, with the Green Party sensationally topping national polls.
In the weekly Kantar survey, the Greens polled 28 percent, up 6 percentage points. This fact means that, for the first time in the nation s history, the Green Party is more popular than Merkel s right-of-center Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) bloc, and also the left-of-center Social Democratic Party (SPD).
The reason this fact is so significant for Germany is that the SPD and CDU/CSU have stood as the twin pillars of German politics since the end of the World War II, in a longstanding duopoly of power. But with the CDU/CSU s bearings uncertain in the post-Merkel era, and the SPD not polling strongly either, Germany may now fast be moving from a de facto two-party to a mult