Gearing up to German elections 2021 - Merkel’s coalition party SPD puts forward green agenda, struggles with credibility for supporting Nord Stream 2 construction
Gearing up to German elections 2021 - Merkel’s coalition party SPD puts forward green agenda, struggles with credibility for supporting Nord Stream 2 construction
The party base elected a quite left party leader duo and less then 10% of the party finances are coming from donations so that the external influence is comparatively low. So yes, I belive they honestly want change and they already did not want a coalition with the CDU after the last election. And when they were kind of forced into it they asked the party base and the result was quite tight. It’s never been a partnership based on sympathy.