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Victor Grossman: Thus, while keeping their position of never joining with The Left, at least in Western Germany, the Greens took a big step to the right. Although they swore they would never join a coalition with Christian Democrats on the national level, there were those, in and out of the party, who looked ahead to 2009 and expressed their doubts.

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Black-Green coalition: German Greens form alliance with Germany's main right wing party in Hamburg.

* Germany has a Left AND a Social Democratic Party. The former is mostly shunned by the media and most union leaders, according to Grossman.

Edited to add: Here's an older article on the growing strength of the Left Party. It looks like a very positive development in Germany's political landscape: Hamburg and the Horns of a Dilemma: The Left gains in Germany

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Originally posted by N.Beltov:
Black-Green coalition: German Greens form alliance with Germany's main right wing party in Hamburg.

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