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How Germany’s political center caved

GZERO Media · Oct 5, 2026, 4:17 PM UTC

For nearly 80 years, two establishment parties have dominated/monopolized Germany's electoral politics. Since 1949, the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) and a conservative coalition uniting the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) have anchored every single government – first in West Germany, and then in post-1989…