What the terms 'right' and 'left' mean in the German election
Old habits die hard. In the eyes of newspapers including the Washington Post, the revival of the Social Democrats (SPD) in the polls in early 2017 after nominating Martin Schulz as chancellor is a sign of the "resurgent left." Conversely, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) is most frequently treated as part of a global "right-wing populist" trend that also includes the Brexit and Donald Trump's election victory in the US.
According to the polls, six parties are likely to be represented in the next German parliament after the national election in September: the center-right CDU-CSU, the center-left SPD, the right-wing AfD, the Left Party, the leftist Greens and the liberal Free Democrats (FDP). How comfortably can the left-right schema be applied to this political spectrum?
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