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Germany's oldest party, of Brandt, Schmidt, Schröder and Scholz, it defends the welfare state, unions, codetermination and Europe, with a market tilt since Agenda 2010, and has lost voters to the AfD and the Greens.
Political axes
Leans further toward progressive than 86% of the 159 parties and organizations in the catalog.
Of all the axes, Morality is where it stands furthest from the rest.
On Technology, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most parties and organizations.
Ideological proximity
Most compatible among the 266 ideologies
Liberal current that accepts an active role for the state in the economy and in guaranteeing rights, combining individual freedoms and markets with regulation and public policies aimed at the collective good and equality.
Nationalism based on citizenship and shared values rather than ethnicity, defining the nation by adherence to common laws and institutions, open to all who accept its democratic and civic principles.
Scandinavian model combining tripartite collective bargaining among unions, employers and the state, a universalist welfare state funded by high taxes, and an open, export-driven market economy, with strong social consensus and low inequality.
The most distant ideology
FeudalismFar-Right32%
A Social Democrat and German chancellor from 2021 to 2025, Scholz proclaimed the Zeitenwende, with 100 billion euros for the armed forces and weapons for Ukraine, raised the minimum wage to 12 euros and defended the debt brake until the traffic-light coalition collapsed.
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Other compatible profiles
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Italy's main center-left party, of Elly Schlein, it defends social democracy, civil rights, migrants, Europe and the green transition, with communist and Christian-democratic roots, and is in opposition to Meloni.
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