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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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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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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Ms Merkel remains a strong favourite to defeat the SPD candidate (and foreign minister), Frank-Walter Steinmeier, in September.

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