
Is Germany going authoritarian-left?
Sahra Wagenknecht’s new party has a questionable support base and doubtful prospects—like others of its kind across Europe.
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Flora Baumgartner is a research assistant in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Konstanz. Her research interests centre on party families, electoral politics and multidimensional positions, social policy and political economy.

Sahra Wagenknecht’s new party has a questionable support base and doubtful prospects—like others of its kind across Europe.