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| ▲ | tcfhgj 7 hours ago | parent [-] | | > I don't have kind words for SPD/Die Grünen in specific, or, to be frank, Germany in general. because they've governed Germany for the past decades ... wait ... they have not? | | |
| ▲ | eska 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Out of the last 28 years they have spent only 4 in the opposition. SPD together with CDU are the two major parties shaping Germany. As opposition they also always had a majority veto right. | | | |
| ▲ | sajithdilshan 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | SPD has been part of almost every government formed since the WWII | | |
| ▲ | ahartmetz 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Oh no, not at all. When CDU and SPD were both very strong (until about 2005-2010), they never once had a coalition, and CDU won elections more often than SPD. | | |
| ▲ | sajithdilshan 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yeah right, Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt are from CDU | | |
| ▲ | ahartmetz 6 hours ago | parent [-] | | Konrad Adenauer, Ludwig Erhard, Kurt Georg Kiesinger and Helmut Kohl were CDU chancellors without SPD for a total of 36 years. Merkel had one election period out of four without SPD, so there was a total of 40 years of no SPD. That is much longer than "almost never" for a country that is about 80 years old. There were SPD chancellors for 24 years total, CDU the rest. German politics have been traditionally mostly CDU dominated. |
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| ▲ | lysace 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Gerhard Schröder, German social democrat/SPD and later Putin associate. |
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