Sentence examples for spd from inspiring English sources

On the centre-left are the Social Democrats (SPD).

Most SPD leaders, he says, have been predictable.

Perhaps only an SPD chancellor could have begun reform in Germany.

In western Germany, parts of the SPD and trade unionists turned their back on the government and formed the Electoral Alternative for Work and Social Justice (WASG).

These levels of cross-party support are reminiscent of Angela Merkel's popularity during the 2013 election campaign where polls showed one in four Social Democratic party (SPD) supporters preferred the CDU leader as chancellor to their own candidate, Peer Steinbrück.

When both the SPD and the Greens endorsed interventions in Kosovo and Afghanistan, these leftwingers lost their party-political homes for good.

As soon as Die Linke weakens its present anti-Nato position, the SPD would probably enter into a coalition at federal level.

These in turn found their spokesperson in Oskar Lafontaine, who had famously resigned from the first Schröder government in 1999 and become a vociferous critic of the SPD.

With the SPD ruling out a red-red-green coalition, it's clear that Die Linke won't have power at the federal level.

Though the SPD finished well behind the CDU-CSU, their coalition agreement, signed at the end of November, looks to many like a wishlist for the left.Business and financial leaders are barely bothering to conceal their disappointment at a new national minimum wage, increased pension payments, lower retirement ages for some workers and new pension entitlements for some stay-at-home mothers.

She governed well with the SPD in her first term in 2005-09.