So far the SPD has entered coalitions with the (post-)Communists only at the regional level, an experiment that, following Sunday's elections, will probably be replicated also in Thuringia and Saarland.

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Countries considering changing their first-past-the post system had been alarmed by the results of the New Zealand experiment.

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