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Conservative leader Merz overcomes historic defeat to become Germany’s chancellor • May 6, 2025, 2:10 PM ET (AP)
Center-left party approves German coalition deal, paving the way for Merz to be elected chancellor • Apr. 30, 2025, 5:36 AM ET (AP)

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Also Known As SPD • Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands • Socialist Workers’ Party
Date 1875 - present
Areas Of Involvement socialism • left
Related People Wilhelm Liebknecht • Franz Mehring • Björn Engholm • Oskar Lafontaine • Olaf Scholz • Friedrich Ebert • August Bebel • Eduard Bernstein • Frank-Walter Steinmeier • Peer Steinbrück • Willy Brandt • Gerhard Schröder • Helmut Schmidt • Karl Kautsky • Helmut von Gerlach

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