• Renacles@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    That’s not very accurate, the current chancellor and Germany in general are very left-leaning outside the very catholic regions.

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      1 year ago

      the german government right now is a horrible neoliberal mess trying to greenwash their actions

      they are not left at all

      if they were, we wouldn’t need Last Generation blocking roads.

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      1 year ago

      The chancellor’s party is center-left in the typical European social democrat way, he himself is more of a moderate. But the current coalition polls at around 40%, so calling Germany very left-leaning is a very optimistic statement.

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          1 year ago

          According to current polls, more than 20% are willing to vote for an openly xenophobic, extreme right party of nazi-sympathizers, science deniers and reactionaries. They want to deny basic rights of queers and people with disabilities and call for ceasing to support Ukraine and dropping Russian sanctions. The currently strongest polling party, the center-right CDU, had for a long time been fundamentally opposed to working with the far right, but are now getting more cosy with them, seemingly testing the waters on local and state levels.

          So yeah, unless that somehow sounds like a good direction for Germany to move in, “left-leaning” would unfortunately be an optimistic misjudgement of the current state of affairs.