The Left: What comes after the high-flying?

At the Left Party's congress in Chemnitz, the euphoria of the election victory clearly lingers. The delegates argue fiercely, but hardly anyone wants to speak of any rifts.

The satisfaction tastes like banana and passion fruit. Alihan Ulu brought 13 liters of liqueur and two liters of syrup from the Allgäu region to Chemnitz for the Bavarian delegation. He bottled the sweet, yellow mixture in small bottles labeled with the face of dismissed Finance Minister Christian Lindner. The contents: the "tears of the free democrat" (sic) .