Red–red coalition

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In politics, a red–red coalition is a coalition government composed of social-democratic parties allying themselves with more radical democratic socialist or socialist parties, a coalition that spans the centre-left to the left or far left.

A specific example of a red–red coalition comes from the politics of Germany, formed from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and The Left party or its predecessor, the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS).{{Cite journal |last1=Olsen |first1=Jonathan |last2=Hough |first2=Dan |date=2007 |title=Don't Think Twice, It's Alright: SPD-Left Party/PDS Coalitions in the Eastern German Länder |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23742901 |journal=German Politics & Society |volume=25 |issue=3 (84) |pages=1–24 |doi=10.3167/gps.2007.250301 |jstor=23742901 |issn=1045-0300|url-access=subscription }} Red–red coalitions form state-level governments in Brandenburg, and historically have governed Berlin (2001–2011),{{Cite web |title=The PDS in the Berlin Red–Red Coalition: Experience and Strategic Implications – Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung |url=https://www.rosalux.de/en/publication/id/1894/the-pds-in-the-berlin-red-red-coalition-experience-and-strategic-implications |access-date=2024-11-22 |website=rosalux.de |language=en-US}} Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (1998–2006){{Cite journal |last=Olsen |first=Jonathan |date=2000 |title=Seeing Red: The SPD-PDS Coalition Government in Mecklenburg-West Pomerania |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1432833 |journal=German Studies Review |volume=23 |issue=3 |pages=557–580 |doi=10.2307/1432833 |jstor=1432833 |issn=0149-7952|url-access=subscription }} and (as a SPD minority government tolerated by the PDS) Saxony-Anhalt (1994–2002).