The Collapse of Left Politics

Opinion Germany after the election

Status: 07:28 Reading time: 4 minutes

Grieving expression: Habeck and Scholz on January 29th Source: JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP

Germany is puzzled by the comeback of the Left Party. But this is not a miracle: the SPD and the Greens have revived the irrelevant dwarf party by conducting a purely anti-AfD protest election campaign. The left-wing camp has thus given up any claim to political influence.