The SPD celebrates its birthday – but one big wish remains unfulfilled

The SPD is celebrating its 160th anniversary, back in the Chancellery and with plenty of optimism. The plan of the “social democratic decade” has not yet worked out. What’s the problem?

It wasn’t that long ago that Lars Klingbeil said: “That’s not enough for me.” He wanted more, the current SPD co-leader, who was still general secretary at the time, told the delegates at the federal party conference in December 2021. And proclaimed no less than a “social democratic decade”, inspired by the victory in the federal election, which was a “great opportunity”. “Now it’s up to us.”

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