Elections The Social Democrats’ surge upends Germany’s election campaign

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“. . . Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) have overtaken the Green Party for the first time in a year. . . . The SPD’s late surge has become the biggest story in the most volatile German campaign in living memory. The Economist’s statistical model finds a 33% chance that the SPD will take first place in the election on September 26th. Two weeks ago the number was just 1%. On August 24th Forsa, a pollster, placed the SPD ahead of its senior coalition partner—the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its Bavarian ally, the Christian Social Union (CSU)—for the first time since 2006.“

More from the economist (paywall): here

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