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SWP+SWP+Bundestagswahl 2025
Wie es nach dem dramatischen SPD-Absturz weitergeht

Nach ihrem historisch schlechten Abschneiden müssen sich die Sozialdemokraten neu aufstellen. Das Kapitel Scholz geht zu Ende, aber eine Regierungsbeteiligung winkt.
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Electoral evening of Germany's Social Democratic Party (SPD): German Chancellor and top candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) Olaf Scholz speaks on stage next to his wife Britta Ernst during an election evening at Germany's Social Democratic Party's headquarters in Berlin on February 23, 2025, after the first exit polls in the German general elections. Germany's conservative CDU/CSU alliance led by Friedrich Merz won germany general elections with between 28.5 and 29 percent of the vote, according to first TV exit polls. The Social Democrats recorded what was likely to be their worst result in the history of Germany's post-war democracy, with between 16 and 16.5 percent. (Photo by John MACDOUGALL / AFP)

Bitterer Wahlabend: Bundeskanzler Olaf Scholz (SPD, mit seiner Ehefrau Britta Ernst) übernahm die Verantwortung für das schlechte Ergebnis seiner Partei.

John Macdougall/AFP