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'Red Oskar' seeks the Left's revenge
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| Last Edited | User 13 May 28, 2005 03:08pm |
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| News Date | Saturday, May 28, 2005 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | he gravest political threat to the re-election hopes of German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder seemed to recede Wednesday as the prospect of a challenge from a coalition of united left-wing forces faltered.
Oskar Lafontaine, a former candidate for the Chancellorship and party chairman who became known to the British tabloid press as 'Red Oskar' had floated a plan for a tactical alliance with the ex-Communist Party for Democratic Socialism (PDS) based in the former East Germany, to rob Schroeder of left-wing votes.
"I accuse the political leadership of the SPD," Lafontaine charged Wednesday. "It has long ago left its party. There is nothing that distinguishes the SPD today from the CDU or the FDP," he added, referring to the center-right Christian Democrats and the free market Free Democrats. |
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