Last year was a harrowing one for social democratic parties, underlined by the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) suffering their worst electoral result in the postwar period, and the once powerful Socialist Party (PS) in France coming fifth in the French presidential election.
Traditionally, social democratic parties have been the bedrock of party politics across Europe and their recent electoral debacle should not be downplayed. Instead, their electoral decline has been a gradual and comprehensive one. In Germany, the SPD experienced their worst ever result in Bremen at the 2013 state election, which had been their traditional stronghold. Social democrats have also been losing ground in Nordic countries, where they have traditionally flourished.
https://www.socialeurope.eu/explaining-the-electoral-debacle-of-social-democratic-parties-in-europe
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