SPD has been part of almost every government formed since the WWII

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.

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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.