BERLIN (Reuters) - Bidding to stem the rise of the far-right AfD, Germany's left next week launches a grassroots movement aimed at emulating the success of Britain's Momentum group which propelled hardliner Jeremy Corbyn to the leadership of the Labour Party.
Commentators are sceptical about its prospects, dismissing it as a vanity project for Germany's best-known and most divisive leftists - former finance minister Oskar Lafontaine and his wife Sahra Wagenknecht of the hardline Left party.
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