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''The East German party.'' Marginalized themselves by inner fights and are perceived as ideological dead stranded. Meanwhile they lost two of three major heads: [[wp:de:Oskar_Lafontaine|Lafontaine]] and Wagenknecht. Sometimes they become collateral damage by [[wp:Strategic_voting|strategic voting]] when their voters ballot for CDU, SPD and Greens to prevent AfD.

Depending on how pressing the social question is (especially due to unemployment, low wages and precarious employment conditions), the political reservoir of the social democrats and thus of the Linke grows or shrinks (theoretically). -- The Linke should actually be a wing of the Social Democrats, but due to its historical (SED) past it has a harder ideological core, which to this day mainly affects the "new federal states" (East Germany) and thus maintained its political weight. Last but no least: A ''significant amount'' of adherents can be located in the far-left spectrum. Due to old RAF connections/sympathies and members with left-wing extremist views, the Linke is still partially monitored by the Verfassungsschutz. In the long term, the party will probably permanently fall below the 5% threshold.