The party ended up with the worst result since the party was named the “Social Democratic Party of Germany” in 1890 and was pushed into third place by the far-right AfD with almost 21 percent ...

A number of lawmakers from Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD) on Tuesday joined calls for Berlin to temporarily take in ...

Symbolically, Kühnert’s departure marked the end of a short-lived resurgence of the ostensibly “left” wing of Germany’s Social Democratic Party. Following a brief Bernie Sanders ...

Party leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) Sigmar Gabriel speaks during an SPD party congress in Leipzig, November 14, 2013. The words in the background read, "Party Member Vote." ...

Germany has voted, and Chancellor Angela Merkel once again stands ready to form the country’s next government. But her Christian Democratic Union has taken a hit. Together with its sister party, the ...

German Social Democratic Party follows the path of far-right Alternative for Germany Ulrich Rippert 21 December 2017 ...

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This is the city where Olaf Scholz, 63, grew up and served as mayor from 2011 to 2018. Supporters credit Scholz, of the center-left Social Democratic Party, for steering the city's construction spree.

BERLIN — Germany could face months of uncertainty after the center-left Social Democratic Party won a narrow victory in national elections, prompting parties to stake rival claims to forming the ...

On a Tuesday night in September, hundreds of German Social Democrats streamed past a statue of Chancellor Willy Brandt, who led the country in the 1960s and ’70s, into the party’s headquarters ...

Germany’s proportional representation system means that chancellor candidates aren’t directly elected, and with the close margins, both the SPD and the CDU (with its sister party in Bavaria ...