Germany’s recent elections saw a big drop in vote for the Social Democrats, and the emergence of The Left Party as a growing force of ex-Communists and left Socialists. In Brandenburg, the Social Democrats and the Left Party have formed a coalition government.
Now the coalition is rocked by revelations that many Left Party members of the state parliament were informers for East Germany’s secret police – the Stasi. Spiegel reports on the scandal @ http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,665059,00.html