But if she loses to Ms Maag she will still return to the Bundestag thanks to her number seven ranking on the SPD list.

即使输给了马格，在社民党比例名单上排位第七的她还是能回到联邦议院。

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Ms Merkel has not been much more consistent, bowing repeatedly to SPD demands for more "social" policies.

默克尔女士也并不曾更为前后一致，她一再地屈从于SPD实行更多“社会化”政策的要求。

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In proposing to form a minority government (in coalition with the Greens), Ms Ypsilanti was breaking an SPD campaign promise that it would not co-operate with the Left Party, the successor to East Germany's communists.

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Yet it is more likely that a grand coalition run by a weakened Ms Merkel with a disgruntled SPD would end in paralysis rather as has the current government, with the opposition in control of the upper house.

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In return for allowing Ms Merkel to become chancellor, the SPD is to get control over more ministries than the CDU, including weighty ones such as foreign affairs, finance and the ministry in charge of labour-market reform.

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