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After its worst election result in the postwar period, Germany's center-left Social Democratic Party has hastily replaced its leadership with a younger generation of politicians. The current environment minister, Sigmar Gabriel, is to become the party's new chair.
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Berlin's flamboyant Mayor Klaus Wowereit is one of the party's up-and-coming players. He will be one of the SPD's vice chairs, but wants to run for the position of Berlin mayor again in 2011.
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Andrea Nahles is one of the SPD's young stars and a member of the party's left wing. She will be the new general secretary of the SPD.
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Another hope for the future is the 35-year-old Manuela Schwesig, who is currently minister for social affairs in the north-eastern state of Mecklenburg- Western Pomerania.
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Former chancellor candidate Frank-Walter Steinmeier (left) may have failed to win the election for the SPD, but he gets to be the party's floor leader in the Bundestag. Hubertus Heil (right) resigned as general secretary after the election.
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One of the main tasks for the SPD's new leadership will be to figure out how to deal with the upstart Left Party, which has eaten into the SPD's share of the vote. Here party leaders Lothar Bisky, Gregor Gysi and Oskar Lafontaine celebrate their result on election night in Berlin.
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Andrea Nahles and Sigmar Gabriel may have been on poor terms in recent years, but now they have the job of turning the SPD around.
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The SPD has been declining for years. indeed, the party has lost over 10 million voters since 1998.
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