Word: langguth
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...Merkel's win in one of Germany's biggest states, a financial center and home to the European Central Bank, puts wind in her sails as she campaigns on behalf of her party and for her own re-election in September. Gerd Langguth, a political scientist and Merkel biographer, says the Hesse result means Merkel's return to the Chancellery is assured. The real question is whether Merkel will be able to form a coalition with the FDP or continue the so-called grand coalition with the left-leaning Social Democrats (SPD), he says. "Merkel believes that it would...
...Gerd Langguth , political scientist at Bonn university, calls Steinmeier's appointment "a stop-gap solution, when you get down to it. And if you could speak to him off the record, he'd be the first to acknowledge that. He knows that he is cannon-fodder, the fuel to keep the engine running" until a new generation takes over the party, probably from the left...
...aggressively moving the party towards the left. Beck was seen as close to the party's working class base but unable to hold his own in the rough and tumble of Berlin grand coalition politics. The job may also have been "too much for him intellectually," speculates Langguth. The final blow may have been his decision earlier this year to entertain the prospect of forming a government in the state of Hesse with the minority backing of Die Linke, a party that many of the SPD's old guard leaders, Muentefering among them, will not tolerate...
...underlying problem of losing votes to Die Linke, which under party chairman Oskar Lafontaine - himself a former SPD Chancellor candidate - has grown to become the third largest party in Germany in just three years. "Germany's oldest political party hasn't managed to adapt to modern times," says Langguth. "These days, it consists of two wings - the traditionalists and the reformers," and their differences are growing rather than abating...
...Glenn’s] statement would probably have resonated with David,” said Arthur J. Langguth, Jr. ’55, who was president of The Crimson when Halberstam was managing editor. “He loved tradition...