SPD’s Elections Strategy: Gain Support from Social Promises
SPD’s Elections Strategy: Gain Support from Social Promises

Author(s): Sebastian Płóciennik
Subject(s): Governance, Public Administration, Public Law, Government/Political systems
Published by: PISM Polski Instytut Spraw Międzynarodowych
Keywords: Germany; political parties; society
Summary/Abstract: Germany’s Social Democrats have launched their federal election campaign with a series of welfare promises. Its goals are to regain the support of left-wing voters and reconquer terrain in the political centre from the Christian Democrats. If the SPD’s strategy succeeds, German economic policy would shift to the left. For Poland, this may mean better conditions for exports but also the challenge of faster integration of the euro area.

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