The crisis of the SPD: where now for Germany's social democrats?

Germany's social democrats suffered a disastrous result in the German federal elections, securing only 20.5 per cent of the vote: their worst result in the post-war period. Björn Bremer writes that the party will have a great deal of soul-searching to do over the next four years, and that the left-wing of the party is likely to try and reassert itself as it seeks to become a strong voice of opposition to the next government.