LEIPZIG, Germany (Reuters) - Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) have buried a taboo from the Cold War on working with the far left to show Chancellor Angela Merkel - and their own supporters - that the party will be no pushover in talks about forming a new coalition government.
The centre-left SPD suffered its second-worst election defeat of the post-World War two era in September and is now negotiating its conditions for helping to form a government with the conservatives by Christmas.
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