Germany’s Center-Left Is Using Angela Merkel’s Strategy to Beat Her Conservatives
Olaf Scholz of the Social Democratic Party has adopted the longtime chancellor’s centrist approach to lead the race to determine her successor
Finance Minister Olaf Scholz, the leading candidate to be Germany’s next chancellor, has focused his campaign on incremental improvements to policies introduced during current Chancellor Angela Merkel’s reign.
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Angela Merkel’s conservatives could lose the Sept. 26 election to a resurgent center-left energized by a new approach: imitating Angela Merkel.
Less than three weeks before the vote, polls show the center-left Social Democratic Party ahead of Ms. Merkel’s conservative bloc for the first time in years.
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