[lbo-talk] Germany: Leftwing icon's success hits Merkel's hopes

mike larkin mike_larkin2001 at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 26 18:37:52 PDT 2005


"Angela Merkel's hopes of sweeping to victory as Germany's first woman chancellor are being threatened by a new party.

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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