Opinion polls reveal that the Left party - launched recently by former communists and renegade Social Democrats - is already in third place, and its support base appears to be growing. Analysts say the joint leader of the party, Oskar Lafontaine, a leftwing icon and former Social Democrat minister, is connecting with the voters by "putting his fingers into many open wounds"...."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,2763,1535410,00.html?gusrc=rss
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